Sophie Maríñez

Faculty Fellow

Sophie Maríñez is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She holds a Ph.D. in French from The Graduate Center, CUNY (2010), and an M.A. in Liberal Studies with a focus on Dominican-American Identity and Literature from Empire State College, SUNY (2003). Her research interests include early modern French literature; French Caribbean studies; Haitian-Dominican relations; and Haitian and Dominican Diasporas in the U.S. Her current project focuses on the French Caribbean and the dynamics between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Her first book, Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France (Leiden: Brill, 2017), is an NEH-funded monograph on women who used their writings, and chateaux to convey their social and political identities. Prior to being in academia, she worked as a translator, a journalist and, a cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Mexico.

Participating Years

2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?