Professor Maria Julia Rossi Receives Inaugural CUNY Research Award

Dr. Maria Julia Rossi, an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was recognized with the Sandi Cooper Award for Outstanding Research for Associate Professors, a new honor established by the CUNY Academy in 2025.

The award, named for longtime CUNY faculty members and CUNY Academy board members Jerome Krase and Sandi Cooper, recognizes outstanding research in the humanities or sciences, including social and life sciences.

Rossi’s research focuses on the intersection of the politics of representation in Latin American fiction and gender studies. Her recent publications include Narrar las madres. Derivas de la maternidad en la nueva literatura hispanoamericana [Narrating Mothers. Maternity Drifts in the New Hispanic American Literature] (2024), an exploration of representations of motherhood in contemporary Spanish-language fiction, and Silvina Ocampo marginal (2024), a study of overlooked works by the Argentine writer. Her work has also appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Hispamérica and Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica as well as several edited volumes.

Rossi earned a BA from Escuela Nacional de Teatro y Títeres and from Universidad Nacional de Rosario and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.