Year Started

2022

Education

PhD in English, Brandeis University

MA in English Language and Literature, University of New Mexico

BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College

Teaching Interests

Multi-ethnic American Literature

Global Migrant Literature

The Contemporary Novel

Dr. Diana Filar’s scholarship focuses on contemporary global Anglophone literature, and immigrant fiction in particular. At USMMA, she teaches the range of English courses in addition to serving as the Assistant Department Head of Humanities. Her courses often center around the stories of immigrants, ask questions about what it means to “come of age,” and include readings from a variety of 21^st century genres. In the recent past, she has taught Humanities elective courses on Genre Fiction and Sports Literature. This work examines the connections between names, ethno-racialization, and literary genre in the 21^st century transnational migrant novel. You can find her work on Valeria Luiselli and migrant archives in Post45, on Maggie Nelson and individualism in Contemporary Literature, on immigrant whiteness in the contemporary novel in The Polish Review, and as coauthor of the introduction to Adorno’s “Minima Moralia” in the Twenty-First Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology.