Marjorie Agosín
Dr. Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She holds a BA from the University of Georgia and MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University. Raised in Chile and the daughter of Jewish parents, Dr. Agosín is a poet, human rights activist, and literary critic interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; and migration, identity, and ethnicity. Both her scholarship and her creative work focus on social justice, feminism, and remembrance. Dr. Agosín is the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her collections include The Angel of Memory (2001), The Alphabet in My Hands: A Writing Life (2000), Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of my Chilean Jewish Father (1998), An Absence of Shadows (1998), Melodious Women (1997), Starry Night: Poems (1996), and A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (1995). Dr. Agosín has received numerous honors and awards for her writing and work as a human rights activist, including a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights and a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights. The Chilean government honored her with a Gabriela Mistral Medal for Lifetime Achievement.
