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Since 2002, Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association’ s publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications; serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association; chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association’ s annual convention; and is a member of the MLA Executive Council’ s audit and advisory committees, working with the MLA’ s trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA’ s endowment funds and chairing the Finance Committee.
Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Rosemary Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. She has published on contemporary Latin American literature, Afro-Hispanic studies, Caribbean women writers, and feminist theory.

Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today( coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts( coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa( author; 1986). Read More.

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Rosemary G. Feal, Modern Language Association

Since 2002, Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association’ s publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications; serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association; chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association’ s annual convention; and is a member of the MLA Executive Council’ s audit and advisory committees, working with the MLA’ s trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA’ s endowment funds and chairing the Finance Committee.

Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Rosemary Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. She has published on contemporary Latin American literature, Afro-Hispanic studies, Caribbean women writers, and feminist theory.


Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today( coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts( coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa( author; 1986). Read More.