Background
Marianella Machado was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the Conservatorio de Musica Jose Angel Lamas.
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She later continued her studies in composition with William Banch, and in 1981 she attended Indiana University in Bloomington on a Venezuenlan government scholarship, graduating with bachelor"s and master"s degrees in composition. From 1989-1993 she attended the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, working as a teaching assistant, and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993.
Career
Marchado returned to Venezuela, where she began work as a music teacher and composer. From 1987-1988 she was a research assistant at the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies in Caracas. In 1994 Machado began pursuing an interest in Spanish as second language and Hispanic literature.
She attended the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Cincinnati on assistantship where she graduated with a Master of Arts in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Literature in 1998.
From 1998-2003 she worked as a professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. In August 2003 she took a position as Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University in the United States.
