Faculty
Mariana Zinni
Mariana Zinni
Dr. Mariana C. Zinni is an Professor of Hispanic Literature with a specialization in Colonial Latin America in Queens College, CUNY, where she serves as Undergraduate and Major Advisor. Dr. Zinni earned her Ph.D. (2008) and M.A. (2004) from the University of Pittsburgh.
She is the author of the book Mimesis, exemplum, narración: la crisis de la hermeneusis cristiana en la encyclopedia doctrinal de Sahagún (2014), a study of the dialogues conducted in 1624 between the first twelve Franciscan friars and the tlatoani, a group of wise Nahuas. Her research and publications include Colonial Latin American Literature and Culture and Neo-Baroque Latin American prose. Dr. Zinni participated of numerous national and international conferences, and published book chapters and articles in academic journals such as Revista Hispánica Moderna, Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, Revista de Indias, Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Andina, Variaciones Borges, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, among others.
Prof. Zinni teaches a broad range of classes in Queens College and The Graduate Center, from advance language to graduate courses, especially Early Colonial Literature in Latin America with an emphasis in early modern colonial textuality and visual culture with diversity of topics, i.e.: “Colonial Inquisition: The Dogs of God in the New World”; “Latin American Cultures and Thoughts: Power, Repression and Ideology in Colonial Spanish America”; “To Love & To Sin: Sexual Practices in Colonial Latin America”; “Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism in Spanish Literature: Confession, Love and Lust in Colonial Latin America”; “Loves, Roles and Trades of Women in Colonial Latin America”; “Criollo Consciousness in Spanish America: Art and Literature in Colonial Times”, “Latin American Colony Through the Cinemascope: (Re)Visions of Colonial Text by the Film Industry”, etc.
She was the recipient of the 2013 Isaias Lerner Memorial Award by The CUNY Academy for the Humanities & Sciences, and of the 2021 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Full time Faculty in the School of Arts and Humanities.