• Dissertation Title: La trayectoría de la poesía dominicana del postumismo a la poesía sorprendida

• Supervisory Committee:
  • Professor Marlene Gottlieb, Chair
  • Professor Mary Ann Caws
  • Professor Luis A. Díez

• email: ddefilippis@hostos.cuny.edu

Dr. Cocco De Filippis is presently the Provost of Hostos Community College. Previously, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities at York College (CUNY) where she taught Spanish language, Hispanic and Latino literatures and humanities since 1978. In the past, Dr. Cocco De Filippis has been asked to serve and has served York College with distinction in such positions as Faculty Caucus Leader and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Dr. Cocco De Filippis has spent the better part of two decades promoting and disseminating the study of Dominican, Caribbean and Latino literatures in the United States. A prolific writer, Dr. Cocco De Filippis has published extensively in the field. She points with particular pride to her groundbreaking anthologies on Dominican women authors and on Dominican authors in the U.S. She has also organized a number of prestigious conferences designed to disseminate information about Dominican, Latino and Caribbean literatures and culture, to include, but not limited to, the following: “The Women of Hispaniola” (with Lucienne Serrano, York College, May 1993); “The Education of Dominicans: A Dialogue” (York College, May 1998); “Conversación entre escritoras del Caribe hispano” (with Sonia Rivera-Valdés, Hunter College, May 1996, 1997 and November 1998) and (with Sonia Rivera-Valdés, York College, 4th International Conference on Women Authors of the Spanish Caribbean, April 2001).

Dr. Cocco De Filippis' work has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards and grants, including but not limited to the following: Asian Studies Development Program, the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1992);Japan Society Grant (1994); New York Legislative Grant (1993-94); Outstanding Latina Proclamation, Claire Shulman, Queens Borough President (1994-95); Rockefeller Fellowship 1996-97; Dr. Daisy Cocco De Filippis Day Proclamation, Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President, Hispanic Month Celebration (1996); Influential Latina: abriendo camino, El Diario/La Prensa (1998); Anacaona Award, Alianza Dominicana (1998); “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Heritage Project,” grant, University of Houston (1999); PSC CUNY grants (1985, 1991, 1999, 2000); York College Faculty Development Grant (1995, 1996, 1999); Grant for Research in Technology (1999); Outstanding Latina Researcher Proclamation, W. Virginia Fields, President, Borough of Manhattan, 2000. [text source: Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies; photo: Office of Academic Affairs, Hostos College]