Mariane Stanev

Visiting Assistant Professor

A Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanev teaches three courses at Albion since joining the College in 2024: College Writing, Family Matters, and Divided Nations.

She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan 2022 and awards and fellowships include a Museum Studies Program Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums from the University of Michigan in 2022; a Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship from the Sweetland Writing Center in 2021 and a Rackham Merit Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School.

She has also published “‘715 Haven Street: Art Looks Back’: The Archival Question of Art Resistance for Abolitionist Futures in a Pacified Present,” and the forthcoming “The Albuquerque Papers in Motion: Afterlives of Storytelling in Tereza de Benguela’s Archival Journey to the American Midwest,” as well as “Pocketworlds and Time Warps: Raw Historical Archives and Spiralar Catharsis in Time’s Agent and ‘The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.’” In addition to her scholarly publications, Stanev also publishes regularly in public-facing outlets including pieces in the Latino Newsletter and Museum Matters.

Education
  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature with a Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor, Michigan. August 2022
  • MA., English, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. May 2015
  • B.A., English with a Certificate in Exile Studies, Florida International University, Miami,
    Florida. December 2012
Courses
  • Engl 101W: College Writing
  • Engl 123: Family Matters
Publications
  • “‘715 Haven Street: Art Looks Back’: The Archival Question of Art Resistance for Abolitionist
    Futures in a Pacified Present.” Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 27, no. 4, 2023, pp. 313-339.
    DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2023.2238142
  • “The Albuquerque Papers in Motion: Afterlives of Storytelling in Tereza de Benguela’s Archival
    Journey to the American Midwest” Forthcoming.
Awards
  • Museum Studies Program Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums, University of
    Michigan, 2022
  • Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship, Sweetland Writing Center, 2021
  • Rackham Merit Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, 2015-2020
  • Detroit City Study Fellowship, LSA Institute for the Humanities, 2015