Mary Pipino

Mary Frances (Mimi) Pipino serves as Interim Dean of the School of Arts, Sciences and Professional Studies and Director of Core Curriculum at Ursuline College. She earned her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, specializing in ethnic American women’s literature, feminist theory, literary criticism, and the Victorian novel. Her dissertation was published by Peter Lang as part of its Currents in Comparative Romance Literatures and Languages series. Her research continues to focus on ethnic and world literature and popular culture.

Her work has been published in prominent journals including Voices in Italian Americana, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic Literature, and the Modern Language Association's collection Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature.