srdrissi

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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Lecturer, UCLA, CSUF, Chapman University
Introduction	Susannah Rodríguez Drissi has a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. She lectures at the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Fullerton. Her most recent publications include, “The Quest for Body and Voice in Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison,” which appeared in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 7.3 (2005), published by Purdue University. She is currently completing an English translation (with critical introduction) of Lydia Cabrera’s Porque…Cuentos Negros de Cuba (Because… Afro-Cuban Tales), which was accepted for publication by University of Florida Press. Her encyclopedia articles on Afrocubanism and José Martí will be published later this year in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Her book chapter, “Eating in Cuban: The Cuban Cena in Cuban Literature and Film,” will appear fall 2013, in Health Travels: Cuban Health(care), On and Off the Island, published by UC Press. More recently, her article, “Call Him Ismael: Oriente and Other “Asuntos Morunos”in José Martí’s Ismaelillo and ‘Los Moros en España’” was submitted for publication to Cuban Studies (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Interests	Movies, music, dancing, food, traveling, reading, writing...