Dr. Pilar Melero

Doctor Pilar Melero is a professor of Spanish and Latin American/Latinx literature at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has published four books: Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity (New York, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015), La casa de Esperanza: A History (NCLA/LA Casa de Esperanza, 2011), and From Mythic Rocks.Voces del Malpáis (LA&GO Ediciones, Monterrey, Mexico, 2010), and Discover Waukesha—a third-grade history textbook. Recent publications include three entries in the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, on the history of Waukesha County, the City of Waukesha, and the Town of Waukesha (Ed. Amanda Seligman, UW-Milwaukee, online publication and University of Illinois Press.) Her peer-reviewed publications on Latina, Latin American literary criticism and cultural studies, have been published in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Her poetry, short stories, plays, and photography have appeared in anthologies in the U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Her poem, “And Sometimes Even in English”, was recently published in The Anthology of Immigrant and First-Generation American Poetry, an anthology that benefits RAICES, the non-profit helping Central American Refugees and their children detained in the U.S. Mexico border. A former journalist, Dr. Melero’s articles and other newspaper work has appeared in The Waukesha Freeman, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The El Paso Herald Post. Dr. Melero has presented her work at more than 50 regional, national, and international conferences, and has given more than 30 invited talks at universities and in other venues throughout the United States.

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Ph.D. in Spanish, August 2006

Dissertation:  Desde las faldas de la madre.  Mexican Women’s Contestatory

Voices, 1900-1940

University of Texas at El Paso

M.A. in Spanish, 1995

Thesis:  El color en el cuento hispanoamericano

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

B.A. in Spanish, 1988

B.A. in Journalism, 1988