Research and Teaching Interests:
Latin American Literature: Colonial, Caribbean, and Latino Literature; Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies.
Latin American Literature: Colonial, Caribbean, and Latino Literature; Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies.
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese:
Spanish 25: Reading and Analysis of Literary Texts, Spring 94.
Spanish 2: Elementary Spanish, Spring 95.
Spanish 113: Latin American Cultures (with Julio Ramos), Fall 95.
Spanish 135: “From Illegal to Undocumented: Cultural Representations of Chicano and Dominican Migrations,” Summer 1997.
University of Puerto Rico, Departamento de Español, Facultad de Estudios Generales:
Spanish 3101-3102: Literary Genres: Basic Spanish (Various Topics):
“Cultural Representations of a Latin American Identity,” 1 section, Spring 1996.
“Representations of a Feminine and Migrant Subjectivity in Latin American Cultures,” 3 sections, Spring 1996.
“History and Fiction: Two Ways of Narrating the Nation,” 4 sections, Fall 1996
“Migration and Contemporary Identities: Puerto Rican Emigration and Cuban and Dominican Immigration in Contemporary Cultural Representations of Caribbean Identities,” 4 sections, Spring 1997.
Spanish 3101-T: Basic Spanish: Writing Workshop: “Reading, Writing and Analyzing Literary Texts,” 1 section, Fall 1996.
University of Puerto Rico, Honors Program:
Honors Program 3401: “From Illegal to Undocumented: Cultural Representations of Migrant Communities of Chicanos and Dominicans,” Spring 1997.
Princeton, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures:
Spanish 224: Spanish Literature: Approaches to Literary Texts, Fall 1997.
Spanish 207: Studies in Spanish Language and Style (Elementary Composition), Taught one or two sections and coordinated the other sections. Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999.
Spanish/Latin American Studies 344: The Invention of Spanish American Traditions: “Colonial Subjectivities in Early Spanish America,” Spring 1998.
Spanish/ Latin American Studies 342: Topics in Spanish American Modernity: “Cultural Representations of Gendered Identities in Latin America,” Fall 1998.
Spanish 307: Advanced Spanish Language and Style (Advanced Composition), Fall 1998.
Spanish/Latin American Studies 550 (Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literature): “From Lack to Excess: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in América,” Spring 1999.
Rutgers, Department of Spanish and Portuguese:
Spanish 333: Literature and Culture of Spanish America I, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002.
Spanish 440: Colonial Spanish-American Literature, Fall 2000.
Spanish 332: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic Caribbean II, Spring 2001.
Spanish 659: Graduate Seminar: Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature: “Power and Narration: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in Latin America,” Fall 2001.
Spanish 447: Spanish American Novel, Spring 2002.
Spanish 326: Advanced Language Workshop, Fall 2002.
Spanish 215: Main Currents in Hispanic Literature, Spring 2003.
Spanish 216: Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Spring 2003.
Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies:
CLAGS Seminar in the City: “Queer@s: Revisiting Latin(o) American Sexualities” (with Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui), Feb. 10, March 10, April 21, and May 5, 2006.
Casa de Las Américas and Fundación Ludwig, La Habana, Cuba:
ACLS/SSRC Working Group to Cuba: Course title: “Colonia, colonialidad y (pos?)colonialismo en América Latina” (with Mabel Moraña), July 9-13, 2007.
Princeton, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish 344: Literature and Society in Early Latin America, Fall 2006.
Spanish 550 (Graduate Seminar): “Extended Colonialities: Latin America and the Caribbean,” Spring 2009.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages:
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literature: “From Lack to Excess: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in América,” Spring 2001, Fall 2003.
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literatures: “Escrituras indianas: Indigenous Performances of a Colonial Discourse,” Fall 2004.
Spanish 380: Contemporary Spanish Literature: “Caribbean Migrations: Culture, Displacement, and Identity,” Fall 2003.
Spanish 219: “The Context of Hispanic Civilization,” Fall 2004.
Spanish 690: Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Literature: “Caribbean Detours: Coloniality, Mulataje and Diaspora,” Fall 2005.
Spanish 396: “Caribe Two Ways: Language, Identity and Migration in the Hispanic Caribbean,” Fall 2005.
Spanish 396: “‘Entre lenguas’: Bilingualism and Translation in Latin American and Latino Literature,” Spring 2006.
Spanish 400: Conference Course for Majors: Coloniality in the Américas, Fall 2006.
Spanish 698: Graduate Workshop on Scholarly Writing, Fall 2006, Spring 2008.
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Literature: “Problemáticas coloniales: Minor Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature,” Spring 2007.
Spanish 396: “Queer Latin America,” Fall 2007
Spanish 397: “Pleasures of Exile: Migration and Cultural Representation in the Hispanic, Anglo, and French Caribbean,” Fall 2007.
Spanish 590: Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Literature: “Queer Caribbean,” Spring 2008.
University of Puerto Rico, Humanities Faculty:
One-week faculty workshop entitled ¿Puede el teórico hablar en caribeño? Presented current research on Comparative Caribbean Studies, specifically Caribbean Creolizations and Sexuality and Transgender studies. Offered advising to create a Caribbean Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group. Sponsored by the Iniciativas de Investigación y Actividad Creativa Subgraduada (INAS), Decanato de estudios graduados e Investigación, University of Puerto Rico in June 2-5 2014.
Rutgers University, Latino Studies and Comparative Literature
LHCS 266/Comp Lit 305: Puerto Rican Literature, Fall 2008.
Comp. Lit. 308: Gender and Race in the Caribbean, Fall 2008.
LHCS 240/American Studies 240: Latino Literature and Culture, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2015, Fall 2016.
Comp Lit 610: Graduate Seminar: Comparative Literature in Dialogue: “Extended Postcolonialities”, Spring 2009.
Comp Lit 519/480: Graduate and Undergraduate seminars: “Coloniality of Diasporas in Caribbean Literatures”, Fall 2010.
Comparative Literature 519/397: Graduate and Undergraduate seminars: “Postcolonial Readings of Colonialism in the Americas”, Fall 2011
LHCS 295/Comp Lit 295: Latino and Caribbean Cultural Studies, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2015.
Byrne Seminar for First Year Students” “Caribbean Sexiles,” Rutgers, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
Comp Lit: Graduate seminar: 608: “Debates in Comparative Caribbean Studies: Beyond Creolization and Mulataje”, Spring 2013.
LHCS 319/Comp Lit 319: “Unraveling Race in Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies,” Fall 2014
Comp. Lit 201: Literature Across Borders. Theme: “Love” Multisection introduction to Comparative Literature, Fall 2014.
Comp Lit: Graduate Seminar: 502: “The Discipline and the Profession”, Spring 2015.
Comp Lit Graduate Seminar: 516: “Comparative Colonialities,” Fall 2015
LHCS 215: “Research Methods in Latino and Caribbean Studies,” Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
Byrne Seminar for First Year Students: “Where and What is the Caribbean?”, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
Comp Lit 501: Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Literary Theory “From World Literature to Pluriversality”
Byrne Seminar for First Year EOF Students: “Performing Latinidades,” Spring 2017
Institute for Research on Women (Fall 2010-Spring 2013)
Weekly seminar for faculty, graduate students and staff from several departments in SAS (American Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Educational Theory, Policy and Administration. English, History, Italian, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Women’s and Gender Studies), Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the School of Communication, the Graduate School of Education and the School of Social Work. The seminar also hosted Mellon postdoctoral scholars, several global scholars, Fulbright and AAUW fellows, as well as faculty members from Rutgers Newark and Camden. Annual topics included: “The Arts and Science of Happiness,” “De(genenartions): Imagining Communities,” and “Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities.”
Rutgers University, Center for Cultural Analysis, English Department (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Annual postdoctoral, faculty and graduate student seminar co-taught with Michelle Stephens. Invited guests included Godfrey Baldacchino (Sociology, University of Malta); Françoise Lionnett (French and Francophone Studies, UCLA); Fidalis Buehler (Studio Art, Brigham Young University); Juana Valdés (Printmaking, Florida Atlantic University); Mary Eyring (English, Brigham Young University); Brian Russel Roberts (English, Brigham Young University); Elizabeth DeLoughrey (English and Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA); Koichi Hagimoto (Spanish, Wellesley College); Craig Santos Pérez (English and Creative Writing, University of Hawai’i); and Elaine Stratford (Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia). Seminar includes graduate students and faculty from the following departments: Archaeology, English, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Art History, Sociology, History, Women’s and Gender Studies, African American, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Geography and Comparative Literature.
Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, Faculty and Graduate Student Critical Caribbean Studies Theories and Methods Working Group, (Spring 2016- Spring 2017).
To design the graduate core course for RAICCS to be offered in the Spring 2018.
Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI), (Summer 2016)
Teach session on Ethnic Literatures for the Institute
Rutgers University, Latin Images, Residential Learning Community, (Spring-Fall 2016)
Assist in the design of a 1.5 credit course “Latinidades: Latin Images and Identities Seminar.”
Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Summer Leadership Seminar, (Spring-Summer 2016)
Assist in the design of the Afro-Latinidades content of the Paul Robeson Research Seminar designed for first generation African American and Latino male students.
University of Miami
Latin American Studies 101, Fall 2017
Introduction to Critical Theory, Graduate course, Modern Languages and Literatures, Fall 2017, Fall 2019
Latin American Studies 601: “Research Design in Latin American Studies.”, Spring 2019
Spanish 307: Interpreting Literary And Cultural Texts In Spanish For Heritage/Native Speakers Spring 2020
Spanish 25: Reading and Analysis of Literary Texts, Spring 94.
Spanish 2: Elementary Spanish, Spring 95.
Spanish 113: Latin American Cultures (with Julio Ramos), Fall 95.
Spanish 135: “From Illegal to Undocumented: Cultural Representations of Chicano and Dominican Migrations,” Summer 1997.
University of Puerto Rico, Departamento de Español, Facultad de Estudios Generales:
Spanish 3101-3102: Literary Genres: Basic Spanish (Various Topics):
“Cultural Representations of a Latin American Identity,” 1 section, Spring 1996.
“Representations of a Feminine and Migrant Subjectivity in Latin American Cultures,” 3 sections, Spring 1996.
“History and Fiction: Two Ways of Narrating the Nation,” 4 sections, Fall 1996
“Migration and Contemporary Identities: Puerto Rican Emigration and Cuban and Dominican Immigration in Contemporary Cultural Representations of Caribbean Identities,” 4 sections, Spring 1997.
Spanish 3101-T: Basic Spanish: Writing Workshop: “Reading, Writing and Analyzing Literary Texts,” 1 section, Fall 1996.
University of Puerto Rico, Honors Program:
Honors Program 3401: “From Illegal to Undocumented: Cultural Representations of Migrant Communities of Chicanos and Dominicans,” Spring 1997.
Princeton, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures:
Spanish 224: Spanish Literature: Approaches to Literary Texts, Fall 1997.
Spanish 207: Studies in Spanish Language and Style (Elementary Composition), Taught one or two sections and coordinated the other sections. Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999.
Spanish/Latin American Studies 344: The Invention of Spanish American Traditions: “Colonial Subjectivities in Early Spanish America,” Spring 1998.
Spanish/ Latin American Studies 342: Topics in Spanish American Modernity: “Cultural Representations of Gendered Identities in Latin America,” Fall 1998.
Spanish 307: Advanced Spanish Language and Style (Advanced Composition), Fall 1998.
Spanish/Latin American Studies 550 (Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literature): “From Lack to Excess: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in América,” Spring 1999.
Rutgers, Department of Spanish and Portuguese:
Spanish 333: Literature and Culture of Spanish America I, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002.
Spanish 440: Colonial Spanish-American Literature, Fall 2000.
Spanish 332: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic Caribbean II, Spring 2001.
Spanish 659: Graduate Seminar: Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature: “Power and Narration: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in Latin America,” Fall 2001.
Spanish 447: Spanish American Novel, Spring 2002.
Spanish 326: Advanced Language Workshop, Fall 2002.
Spanish 215: Main Currents in Hispanic Literature, Spring 2003.
Spanish 216: Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Spring 2003.
Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies:
CLAGS Seminar in the City: “Queer@s: Revisiting Latin(o) American Sexualities” (with Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui), Feb. 10, March 10, April 21, and May 5, 2006.
Casa de Las Américas and Fundación Ludwig, La Habana, Cuba:
ACLS/SSRC Working Group to Cuba: Course title: “Colonia, colonialidad y (pos?)colonialismo en América Latina” (with Mabel Moraña), July 9-13, 2007.
Princeton, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish 344: Literature and Society in Early Latin America, Fall 2006.
Spanish 550 (Graduate Seminar): “Extended Colonialities: Latin America and the Caribbean,” Spring 2009.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages:
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literature: “From Lack to Excess: the Invention of a Colonial Discourse in América,” Spring 2001, Fall 2003.
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Spanish American Literatures: “Escrituras indianas: Indigenous Performances of a Colonial Discourse,” Fall 2004.
Spanish 380: Contemporary Spanish Literature: “Caribbean Migrations: Culture, Displacement, and Identity,” Fall 2003.
Spanish 219: “The Context of Hispanic Civilization,” Fall 2004.
Spanish 690: Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Literature: “Caribbean Detours: Coloniality, Mulataje and Diaspora,” Fall 2005.
Spanish 396: “Caribe Two Ways: Language, Identity and Migration in the Hispanic Caribbean,” Fall 2005.
Spanish 396: “‘Entre lenguas’: Bilingualism and Translation in Latin American and Latino Literature,” Spring 2006.
Spanish 400: Conference Course for Majors: Coloniality in the Américas, Fall 2006.
Spanish 698: Graduate Workshop on Scholarly Writing, Fall 2006, Spring 2008.
Spanish 692: Graduate Seminar in Colonial Literature: “Problemáticas coloniales: Minor Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature,” Spring 2007.
Spanish 396: “Queer Latin America,” Fall 2007
Spanish 397: “Pleasures of Exile: Migration and Cultural Representation in the Hispanic, Anglo, and French Caribbean,” Fall 2007.
Spanish 590: Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Literature: “Queer Caribbean,” Spring 2008.
University of Puerto Rico, Humanities Faculty:
One-week faculty workshop entitled ¿Puede el teórico hablar en caribeño? Presented current research on Comparative Caribbean Studies, specifically Caribbean Creolizations and Sexuality and Transgender studies. Offered advising to create a Caribbean Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group. Sponsored by the Iniciativas de Investigación y Actividad Creativa Subgraduada (INAS), Decanato de estudios graduados e Investigación, University of Puerto Rico in June 2-5 2014.
Rutgers University, Latino Studies and Comparative Literature
LHCS 266/Comp Lit 305: Puerto Rican Literature, Fall 2008.
Comp. Lit. 308: Gender and Race in the Caribbean, Fall 2008.
LHCS 240/American Studies 240: Latino Literature and Culture, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2015, Fall 2016.
Comp Lit 610: Graduate Seminar: Comparative Literature in Dialogue: “Extended Postcolonialities”, Spring 2009.
Comp Lit 519/480: Graduate and Undergraduate seminars: “Coloniality of Diasporas in Caribbean Literatures”, Fall 2010.
Comparative Literature 519/397: Graduate and Undergraduate seminars: “Postcolonial Readings of Colonialism in the Americas”, Fall 2011
LHCS 295/Comp Lit 295: Latino and Caribbean Cultural Studies, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2015.
Byrne Seminar for First Year Students” “Caribbean Sexiles,” Rutgers, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
Comp Lit: Graduate seminar: 608: “Debates in Comparative Caribbean Studies: Beyond Creolization and Mulataje”, Spring 2013.
LHCS 319/Comp Lit 319: “Unraveling Race in Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies,” Fall 2014
Comp. Lit 201: Literature Across Borders. Theme: “Love” Multisection introduction to Comparative Literature, Fall 2014.
Comp Lit: Graduate Seminar: 502: “The Discipline and the Profession”, Spring 2015.
Comp Lit Graduate Seminar: 516: “Comparative Colonialities,” Fall 2015
LHCS 215: “Research Methods in Latino and Caribbean Studies,” Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
Byrne Seminar for First Year Students: “Where and What is the Caribbean?”, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
Comp Lit 501: Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Literary Theory “From World Literature to Pluriversality”
Byrne Seminar for First Year EOF Students: “Performing Latinidades,” Spring 2017
Institute for Research on Women (Fall 2010-Spring 2013)
Weekly seminar for faculty, graduate students and staff from several departments in SAS (American Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Educational Theory, Policy and Administration. English, History, Italian, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Women’s and Gender Studies), Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the School of Communication, the Graduate School of Education and the School of Social Work. The seminar also hosted Mellon postdoctoral scholars, several global scholars, Fulbright and AAUW fellows, as well as faculty members from Rutgers Newark and Camden. Annual topics included: “The Arts and Science of Happiness,” “De(genenartions): Imagining Communities,” and “Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities.”
Rutgers University, Center for Cultural Analysis, English Department (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Annual postdoctoral, faculty and graduate student seminar co-taught with Michelle Stephens. Invited guests included Godfrey Baldacchino (Sociology, University of Malta); Françoise Lionnett (French and Francophone Studies, UCLA); Fidalis Buehler (Studio Art, Brigham Young University); Juana Valdés (Printmaking, Florida Atlantic University); Mary Eyring (English, Brigham Young University); Brian Russel Roberts (English, Brigham Young University); Elizabeth DeLoughrey (English and Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA); Koichi Hagimoto (Spanish, Wellesley College); Craig Santos Pérez (English and Creative Writing, University of Hawai’i); and Elaine Stratford (Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia). Seminar includes graduate students and faculty from the following departments: Archaeology, English, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Art History, Sociology, History, Women’s and Gender Studies, African American, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Geography and Comparative Literature.
Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, Faculty and Graduate Student Critical Caribbean Studies Theories and Methods Working Group, (Spring 2016- Spring 2017).
To design the graduate core course for RAICCS to be offered in the Spring 2018.
Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI), (Summer 2016)
Teach session on Ethnic Literatures for the Institute
Rutgers University, Latin Images, Residential Learning Community, (Spring-Fall 2016)
Assist in the design of a 1.5 credit course “Latinidades: Latin Images and Identities Seminar.”
Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Summer Leadership Seminar, (Spring-Summer 2016)
Assist in the design of the Afro-Latinidades content of the Paul Robeson Research Seminar designed for first generation African American and Latino male students.
University of Miami
Latin American Studies 101, Fall 2017
Introduction to Critical Theory, Graduate course, Modern Languages and Literatures, Fall 2017, Fall 2019
Latin American Studies 601: “Research Design in Latin American Studies.”, Spring 2019
Spanish 307: Interpreting Literary And Cultural Texts In Spanish For Heritage/Native Speakers Spring 2020
