Dellita
Martin-Ogunsola is professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
(UAB). She received her B.A. in Spanish from Louisiana State University
in New Orleans, her M.A. in Hispanic Literature and her
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature from the Ohio State
University. During her career at UAB, Dr. Martin-Ogunsola has taught
courses in Spanish and English language and literature, and she served
as a department chairperson for nine years. Her area of specialization
is Latin American literature with an emphasis on the works of African-ancestored
authors of the Caribbean. However, her research and publications deal
with Spanish-, French-, English-, and Portuguese-speaking writers throughout
the African Diaspora in the Americas
Dr. Martin-Ogunsola’s articles, reviews and translations have
appeared in various scholarly journals, including the Afro-Hispanic
Review, Black American Literature Forum, The Black
Scholar, CLA Journal, Journal
of Caribbean Studies, Langston Hughes Review, MELUS, and the South
Atlantic Bulletin. In addition, she is the translator and compiler of The
Best Short Stories of Quince Duncan/Las mejores historias de Quince Duncan (San Jose: Editorial Costa Rica, 1995); editor of The
Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol. 16: The Translations, Federico
García
Lorca, Nicolás Guillén, and Jacques Roumain (Columbia:
U. Missouri Press, 2003); and author of The Eve-Hagar Paradigm in
the Fiction of Quince Duncan (Columbia: U. Missouri Press, 2004).