Megan Jeanette Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1436692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Jeanette Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan Jeanette |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4760-891X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Space and Literary Studies
Writing Haitian and Dominican Relations as Postmemory in Jasminne Mendez’s and Ana Belique’s Young Adult and Children’s Books
Julia Alvarez and Junot Díaz, arguably two of the most well-known Dominican American writers, have both published fiction for children and young adults. While they may be the most visible, Alvarez’s and Díaz’s literature for elementary and young adult (YA) audiences only scratches the surface of the field of children’s literature portraying the Dominican Republic and the Dominican diaspora. A growing number of Dominican and Dominican American aut…
Eleven Years of Activism at the Haitian-Dominican Border
The 1937 Massacre, ordered by the infamous Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and carried out by the Dominican army and conscripted civilians, claimed the lives of approximately fifteen thousand Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. This article reflects on eleven years of work by Border of Lights (BOL), a transnational volunteer collective that publicly remembers the massacre and honors the lives lost. The article introduces readers to BOL…
New Dialogues in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
New Dialogues in Spanish and Portuguese Studies:Pedagogical and Theoretical Perspectives from the Digital Humanities Susanna Allés-Torrent, Megan Jeanette Myers, and Élika Ortega The Digital Humanities (DH) has been for many years, even decades, in constant development and self-definition and has been able to gather a diverse and international community that goes beyond the traditional framework of academia. Different initiatives underscored the …
Cómo no publicarlas
This article considers three Haitian-authored novels published in Spanish by Editora Taller in the Dominican Republic in the 1970s: Jacques Stéphen Alexis’s Mi compadre el general sol (1972), Jacques Roumain’s Los gobernadores del rocío (1974), and René Depestre’s El palo ensebado (1977). In republishing prior Spanish translations that first surfaced in other Latin American literary markets, Editora Taller added new cover images to these subseque…
The classroom, the campus, and beyond
Literary Crossover in the Domingo del Monte Tertulia
This article charts the similarities between the first short story appearance in 1839 of what later became Cirilo Villaverde’s well-known nineteenth-century novel, Cecilia Valdés (1882), and Anselmo Suárez y Romero’s “Carlota Valdés” (1838). The study considers the circle of influence in Cuba for writers during this time period, focusing on the space of Domingo del Monte’s famed tertulia (the literary gathering in which the esclavo-poeta Juan Fra…
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Literary Crossover in the Domingo del Monte Tertulia
This article charts the similarities between the first short story appearance in 1839 of what later became Cirilo Villaverde’s well-known nineteenth-century novel, Cecilia Valdés (1882), and Anselmo Suárez y Romero’s “Carlota Valdés” (1838). The study considers the circle of influence in Cuba for writers during this time period, focusing on the space of Domingo del Monte’s famed tertulia (the literary gathering in which the esclavo-poeta Juan Fra…
The classroom, the campus, and beyond
New Dialogues in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
New Dialogues in Spanish and Portuguese Studies:Pedagogical and Theoretical Perspectives from the Digital Humanities Susanna Allés-Torrent, Megan Jeanette Myers, and Élika Ortega The Digital Humanities (DH) has been for many years, even decades, in constant development and self-definition and has been able to gather a diverse and international community that goes beyond the traditional framework of academia. Different initiatives underscored the …
Cómo no publicarlas
This article considers three Haitian-authored novels published in Spanish by Editora Taller in the Dominican Republic in the 1970s: Jacques Stéphen Alexis’s Mi compadre el general sol (1972), Jacques Roumain’s Los gobernadores del rocío (1974), and René Depestre’s El palo ensebado (1977). In republishing prior Spanish translations that first surfaced in other Latin American literary markets, Editora Taller added new cover images to these subseque…
Eleven Years of Activism at the Haitian-Dominican Border
The 1937 Massacre, ordered by the infamous Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and carried out by the Dominican army and conscripted civilians, claimed the lives of approximately fifteen thousand Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. This article reflects on eleven years of work by Border of Lights (BOL), a transnational volunteer collective that publicly remembers the massacre and honors the lives lost. The article introduces readers to BOL…
Space and Literary Studies
Writing Haitian and Dominican Relations as Postmemory in Jasminne Mendez’s and Ana Belique’s Young Adult and Children’s Books
Julia Alvarez and Junot Díaz, arguably two of the most well-known Dominican American writers, have both published fiction for children and young adults. While they may be the most visible, Alvarez’s and Díaz’s literature for elementary and young adult (YA) audiences only scratches the surface of the field of children’s literature portraying the Dominican Republic and the Dominican diaspora. A growing number of Dominican and Dominican American aut…
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