Dr. Cristina Migliaccio – Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Cristina Migliaccio is Assistant Professor of English at CUNY Medgar Evers College. She earned a Ph.D. in English Composition & Rhetoric from St. John’s University. Her research interests center on cultural rhetorics, the digital humanities, and Italian Studies. Her first book, The Siren’s Children Speak: Neapolitan Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. Her essays appear in the 2022 edited collection, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, and peer-reviewed journals such as Digital Humanities Quarterly, Reviews in the Digital Humanities, Educause Review Online, and Open Words: Access and English Studies Online. In April 2023 she and Professor Donna Hill were awarded a Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Curriculum Faculty Fellow Grant from the CUNY Graduate Center.