FACULTY PROFILES

Marion C. Rohrleitner

Director
Director of Literature and Graduate Advisor for the Literature Program

Associate Professor
English

Office Building: Hudspeth Hall
Office Room: 321
Phone: (915) 747-5647
Email: mcrohrleitner@utep.edu

Expertise: See Research Profile in Expertise Connector

Bio

Originally from Hall in Tirol, Austria, I graduated from the University of Notre Dame in July 2007 with a PhD in English and a specialization in US-Latina/o and Caribbean literature.

Awards and Honors

Mimi Reisel Gladstein Research Fellowship in American Literature - Department of English (10/21/2024)
Dean's Speaker Series - Dean's Office, College of Liberal Arts (10/14/2022)
Mimi Reisel Gladstein Research Fellowship - Department of English (04/15/2022)
Career Enhancement Grant for the Arts and Humanities - Provost's Office (12/22/2013)
Faculty Leadership Award - Women's Studies (05/03/2013)

Education

Ph D in English, University of Notre Dame (2007)
M. Phil. in American Studies, Leopold-Franzens-Universitaet Innsbruck (2000)

Publications

Transnational Latinidades: The Production, Marketing, and Translation of Latinx Literature in the European Union The Ohio State University Press (2026), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Unaccompanied, Undocumented, Unwanted, and Underground: Contemporary Narratives of Migration al Norte Bloomsbury (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Global Wanderings: Latinx Literature in Translation Cambridge University Press (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Review of Doom Patterns Amerikastudien/American Studies 70 2 (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Beyond Necrowriting: Imagining Chicana Futurity in Thirty Talks Weird Love Chiricu (2025), Marion Rohrleitner.
Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat Sargasso (2024), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Review of ¡Andale Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family, by Yasmín Ramírez Passport (2023), Marion Rohrleitner.
Bad Girls: Killing "Patriarchal Motherhood" and the Ruses of Queer Domesticity in _Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties_ University of Texas Press (2023), Marion Rohrleitner.
Review of Crossing Waters by Marisel Moreno Latino Studies (2023), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Black Butterflies: Survival, Transformation, and the Invention of Home in Edwidge Danticat’s Fiction and Non-Fiction University of Mississippi Press (2022), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology University of Virginia Press (2022), Marlene L. Daut, Gregory Pierrot, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Only Those Who Can Leave Are Allowed to Stay: Petzold’s Masterful Adaptation of Seghers’ Transit Borders in Globalization 3 1 (2021), Marion C. Rohrleitner.

Presentations

Violence, Speculative Fiction, and the Borders of Latinx Literature: A Roundtable on Maia Gil’Adí’s Doom Patterns (2025), Volume San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Entering an MA Program (2025), Volume Hudspeth 114, Aarin K. Walston, Marion Rohrleitner.
Writing a Statement of Purpose for Graduate Programs (2025) (2025), Volume Hudspeth Hall 114, Aarin K. Walston, Marion Rohrleitner.
Translation as Method in Latinx Studies (2024), Volume CUNY, NYC, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Contentious Border Crossings: The Representation of Differential Mobility Regimes in US Narratives of Migration. (2024), Volume Joensuu, Finland, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Translation as Method in Latinx Studies (2024), Volume Tempe, Az, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
“Post-Apocalyptic Alliances: Cultivating Afro-Caribbean Connections in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.” (2023), Volume Accra, Ghana and online, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
“How to Solve a Problem like Latinidad?” (2023), Volume Montreal, Canada, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Roundtable on three monographs in progress: Elena Machado Sáez, Ylce Irizarry, and Marion Rohrleitner (2023), Volume CUNY, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
“How Do You Solve a Problem like Francisco?": Against Latinx Literature as Redemption" (2023), Volume CUNY, Marion Rohrleitner.
"Queering Mestizaje" Disidentifying Borders through Queer Agency in Jesús Valles' (Un)documents and Gris Muñoz's Coatlicue Girl" (2022), Volume UTEP, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
UnSilencing: Language Choice as Performance of Diasporic Identity (2022), Volume UTEP, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Roundtable on our book _Haitian Revolutionary Fictions_, with Marlene L. Daut and Gregory Pierrot (2022), Volume Howard University, Washington DC, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
"Welcome to the Funhouse: Queer Domesticity and Fears of Going Home in Contemporary Latinx Literature" (2022), Volume Glasgow, Scotland, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
"'The River and the Wall': Transfronteriza Writers, Filmmakers, and Artists on Migration and Climate Change." (2022), Volume Larnaca, Cyprus, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
"Undocumented Magic: Magical Realism as 'Aesthetic Turbulence' in Salvador Plascencia's _The People of Paper_". (2022), Volume New Orleans, LA, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Performing Borders/Performances on the Border (2022), Volume Washington, DC, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Afro-Latinx Stories (2021), Volume Toronto, Canada, Marion C. Rohrleitner.

Grants

“Fronterizas Charlando: Dissecting the Politics of Trauma and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” (04/04/2023 - 04/04/2023) - Dean's Lecture Series

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Spring 2026	ENGL 5308 - American Lit 1945-Present	27640	Syllabus
Spring 2026	ENGL 4390 - Directed Study	28764
Spring 2026	ENGL 5391 - M.A. Written Examination	20944
Spring 2026	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	20941
Spring 2026	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	22047

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2025	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	17423	Syllabus
Fall 2025	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	17419	Syllabus
Spring 2025	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	27443	Syllabus
Fall 2024	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	13839	Syllabus
Fall 2024	ENGL 3302 - Literature and Film	13837	Syllabus
Fall 2024	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	17519	Syllabus
Fall 2024	CHIC 4350 - Topics in Chicano Studies	18130
Spring 2024	ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature	27179	Syllabus
Spring 2024	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	25795	Syllabus
Spring 2024	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21110
Fall 2023	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	14668	Syllabus
Fall 2023	ENGL 5325 - Genre: Theory and Practice	16382	Syllabus
Fall 2023	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	13051	Syllabus
Spring 2023	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	27280	Syllabus
Spring 2023	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	27277	Syllabus
Spring 2023	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21205
Spring 2023	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21206
Spring 2023	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21207
Fall 2022	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	19043	Syllabus
Fall 2022	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	19054	Syllabus
Fall 2022	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	11892	Syllabus
Spring 2022	ENGL 4340 - Advanced Literary Studies	28535
Spring 2022	ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present	25532
Spring 2022	ENGL 4390 - Directed Study	20584
Spring 2022	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21525
Spring 2022	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21526
Spring 2022	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	23848
Fall 2021	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	18586	Syllabus
Fall 2021	ENGL 5322 - Literature and Culture	18587	Syllabus
Fall 2021	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	14020
Spring 2021	ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature	28371	Syllabus
Spring 2021	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21669
Spring 2021	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	24186
Spring 2021	ENGL 3331 - World Literature	28372	Syllabus
Fall 2020	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	16665
Fall 2020	ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present	10922
Spring 2020	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	26989	Syllabus
Spring 2020	ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper	21908
Spring 2020	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	24700
Fall 2019	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	17314
Fall 2019	ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature	10980
Fall 2019	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	14531
Spring 2019	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	26130	Syllabus
Spring 2019	ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present	27998	Syllabus
Spring 2019	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	28007	Syllabus
Spring 2019	ENGL 5399 - Thesis	20426
Spring 2019	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	25049

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Fall 2025	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	17423	Evaluation
Fall 2025	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	17419	Evaluation
Spring 2025	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	27443	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	13839	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ENGL 3302 - Literature and Film	13837	Evaluation
Fall 2024	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	17519	Evaluation
Spring 2024	ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature	27179	Evaluation
Spring 2024	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	25795	Evaluation
Fall 2023	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	14668	Evaluation
Fall 2023	ENGL 5325 - Genre: Theory and Practice	16382	Evaluation
Fall 2023	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	13051	Evaluation
Spring 2023	ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present	27280	Evaluation
Spring 2023	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	27277	Evaluation
Fall 2022	ENGL 3315 - African American Literature	19043	Evaluation
Fall 2022	ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas	19054	Evaluation
Fall 2022	AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies	11892	Evaluation
Spring 2022	ENGL 4340 - Advanced Literary Studies	28535	Evaluation
Spring 2022	ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present	25532	Evaluation
Fall 2021	ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film	18586	Evaluation
Fall 2021	ENGL 5322 - Literature and Culture	18587	Evaluation
Spring 2021	ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature	28371	Evaluation
Spring 2021	ENGL 3331 - World Literature	28372	Evaluation

Bio

Originally from Hall in Tirol, Austria, I graduated from the University of Notre Dame in July 2007 with a PhD in English and a specialization in US-Latina/o and Caribbean literature.

Awards and Honors

Mimi Reisel Gladstein Research Fellowship in American Literature - Department of English (10/21/2024)
Dean's Speaker Series - Dean's Office, College of Liberal Arts (10/14/2022)
Mimi Reisel Gladstein Research Fellowship - Department of English (04/15/2022)
Career Enhancement Grant for the Arts and Humanities - Provost's Office (12/22/2013)
Faculty Leadership Award - Women's Studies (05/03/2013)

Ph D in English, University of Notre Dame (2007)
M. Phil. in American Studies, Leopold-Franzens-Universitaet Innsbruck (2000)

Publications

Transnational Latinidades: The Production, Marketing, and Translation of Latinx Literature in the European Union The Ohio State University Press (2026), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Unaccompanied, Undocumented, Unwanted, and Underground: Contemporary Narratives of Migration al Norte Bloomsbury (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Global Wanderings: Latinx Literature in Translation Cambridge University Press (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Review of Doom Patterns Amerikastudien/American Studies 70 2 (2025), Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Beyond Necrowriting: Imagining Chicana Futurity in Thirty Talks Weird Love Chiricu (2025), Marion Rohrleitner.

Presentations

Violence, Speculative Fiction, and the Borders of Latinx Literature: A Roundtable on Maia Gil’Adí’s Doom Patterns (2025), Volume San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Entering an MA Program (2025), Volume Hudspeth 114, Aarin K. Walston, Marion Rohrleitner.
Writing a Statement of Purpose for Graduate Programs (2025) (2025), Volume Hudspeth Hall 114, Aarin K. Walston, Marion Rohrleitner.
Translation as Method in Latinx Studies (2024), Volume CUNY, NYC, Marion C. Rohrleitner.
Contentious Border Crossings: The Representation of Differential Mobility Regimes in US Narratives of Migration. (2024), Volume Joensuu, Finland, Marion C. Rohrleitner.

“Fronterizas Charlando: Dissecting the Politics of Trauma and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” (04/04/2023 - 04/04/2023) Dean's Lecture Series

Current/Future Courses

Term

Spring 2026

Course

ENGL 5308 - American Lit 1945-Present

Section

27640

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

ENGL 4390 - Directed Study

Section

28764

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

ENGL 5391 - M.A. Written Examination

Section

20944

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

20941

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

22047

Syllabus

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Fall 2025

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

17423

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

17419

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2025

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

27443

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

13839

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

ENGL 3302 - Literature and Film

Section

13837

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

17519

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

CHIC 4350 - Topics in Chicano Studies

Section

18130

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature

Section

27179

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

25795

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21110

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

14668

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

ENGL 5325 - Genre: Theory and Practice

Section

16382

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

13051

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

27280

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

27277

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21205

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21206

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21207

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

19043

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

19054

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

11892

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 4340 - Advanced Literary Studies

Section

28535

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present

Section

25532

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 4390 - Directed Study

Section

20584

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21525

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21526

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

23848

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

18586

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

ENGL 5322 - Literature and Culture

Section

18587

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

14020

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature

Section

28371

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21669

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

24186

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

ENGL 3331 - World Literature

Section

28372

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

16665

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present

Section

10922

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

26989

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

ENGL 5392 - Master of Arts Research Paper

Section

21908

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

24700

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

17314

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature

Section

10980

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

14531

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

26130

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present

Section

27998

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

28007

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

ENGL 5399 - Thesis

Section

20426

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

25049

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

17423

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2025

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

17419

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2025

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

27443

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2024

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

13839

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2024

Course

ENGL 3302 - Literature and Film

Section

13837

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2024

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

17519

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2024

Course

ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature

Section

27179

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2024

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

25795

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2023

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

14668

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2023

Course

ENGL 5325 - Genre: Theory and Practice

Section

16382

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2023

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

13051

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 4319 - Am. Fiction 1945 to Present

Section

27280

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2023

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

27277

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2022

Course

ENGL 3315 - African American Literature

Section

19043

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2022

Course

ENGL 5321 - Literature of the Americas

Section

19054

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2022

Course

AFST 3390 - Topics in African/Amer Studies

Section

11892

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 4340 - Advanced Literary Studies

Section

28535

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ENGL 3312 - Am. Literature 1865 to Present

Section

25532

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2021

Course

ENGL 3328 - Holocaust Literature and Film

Section

18586

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2021

Course

ENGL 5322 - Literature and Culture

Section

18587

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2021

Course

ENGL 3310 - Chicana/o Literature

Section

28371

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2021

Course

ENGL 3331 - World Literature

Section

28372

Evaluation

Marion C. Rohrleitner

Bio

Education

Scholarly and Creative Activity

Grants

Courses

Course Evaluations