Mileta Roe
Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Contact
Liebowitz Center for International Studies
- Office: Liebowitz 203
- mroe@simons-rock.edu
- 413-528-7223
Academic Program Affiliation(s)
Areas of Specialization
- Comparative Literature
- Nonfiction and Literary Journalism
- Literature of the Americas
Interests
Research Interests: Comparative Literary Journalism; Translation and Adaptation Studies; Medicine and Narrative; 20th & 21st-century Latin American Narrative
Teaching Interests: Creative Nonfiction; Literary Journalism; Latin American Narrative; Francophone and Spanish-language Film; Children’s Literature
Other Interests: Vocal and Instrumental Music; Contemporary Composers
Regular Courses Offered
- LIT 106 Creative Nonfiction
- LIT 204 Children’s Literature
- LIT 235 Medicine and Nonfiction Narrative
- LIT 236 Truth That Matters: Literary Journalism
- LIT 279 Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas
- SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish I: Perspectivas de Latinoamérica
- SPAN 212 Love and Other Demons: Latin American Novellas
- SPAN 213 Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Fiction
- SPAN 216 Luis Buñuel: Spanish Surrealist
Biography
MA, PhD, Brandeis University
BM, Oberlin Conservatory (Vocal Performance)
BA with Honors, Oberlin College (Comparative Literature)
Dr. Roe teaches a range of classes, including literature of the Americas, nonfiction writing, and literary journalism. She has written primarily on 20th-century prose (fiction and nonfiction) and film. Part of her current work analyzes historical and contemporary connections between medicine and nonfiction writing. Before getting her PhD in comparative literature from Brandeis University, she was a staff editor at The Atlantic. She was awarded Oberlin’s Dissertation Prize for alumni and has presented her work at numerous international conferences. Her play translations have been performed in Costa Rica and Mexico, and she co-translated into Spanish the book The Elements of Mindfulness by Scott L. Rogers, Director of the Mindfulness in Law Program at the University of Miami. Some of her other writings have appeared in The Phoenix Literary Supplement, the Boston Herald, the Boston Book Review, Scope: An Online Film Journal, Literary Journalism Studies, and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
Recent Highlights
Book Chapter. “An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation: Sandra Steingraber on danger, ecology, and writing,” in Literary Journalist as a Naturalist, ed. Pablo Calvi. Palgrave/Springer, 2024.
Presentation. “The Afterlives of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” International Association for Literary Journalism Studies Conference. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. May 2024.
Presentation. “Media, Myth, and Meaning: The Transcultural Storytelling of Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya” for seminar on Translating Literature into Moving Pictures: Literary Adaptation and Animation. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada. March 2024.
Translation (play). La rata-cambalachera [Packrat] by Renee Phillippi. Performed by Concrete Temple Theatre (NYC) at Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 2023.