Teaching

Utrecht University, Netherlands


Comparative Literature. Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication. Invited Professor
  • Spring 2022, Postcolonial Theory. The Subaltern, Gender, and Postcolonial African Feminism" (April 8, 2022).

University of California, Davis

Spring 2022. Graduate seminar

Fall 2021.

Duke University

African-Spanish Cultures

Summer School 2021 / Remote course.

Mapping African-Spanish Culture. 

Spring 2021 / Remote course.

The overall goal of the course is for students to question and push the traditional boundaries of the Global Hispanophone. The final project for this course is a collaborative project in the field of Digital Humanities. Throughout the semester this course will build your digital humanities skills to create an interdisciplinary open-access Mapping website in Spanish.

Outcomes: A project on African-Spanish Culture in the field of Digital Humanities, composed by three open-access platforms in AsriGIS StoryMaps (mapping software). In collaboration with The Center for Data and Visualization at Duke. You can visit one of the platforms here.

Spanish Colonial Past in Africa. Intro to Cultural Studies.

Spring 2019-Fall 2020 / In-person and Remote.

Spanish 101. Basic level. Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Spanish 102. Basic-Intermediate level. Spring 2020.

Spanish 203. Intermediate level. Fall 2020-Spring 2021

Spanish 203. Intermediate level. Fall 2021.

Vassar College

Mapping Archipelagic Hispanic Cultures and Literatures.

Fall 2018-Spring 2019

From an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that overlaps Island, Postcolonial, Hispanic and Archipelagic Studies, this course aims to understand the complex role of islands and archipelagos in colonial and neo-colonial Hispanic contexts, while decontinentalizing Hispanic culture production and going beyond the boundaries of traditional area studies. Through a close reading of historic and modern literary and critical texts, contemporary art interventions, maps, photography and films, this course will examine the impact of colonialism in three different Atlantic archipelagos and former colonies of Spain: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic; the African Islands of Equatorial Guinea, and the Canary Islands. We will analyze topics such as displacement in its different formsexile, migration, travel, tourismtransoceanic insular imaginaries, and concepts such as slow violence, smallness, archipelagic thinking isolation and islandeness.

Afro-Hispanic and Transatlantic (Pen)Insular Literature*.

Fall 2018- Spring 2019

Through the study of a wide range of literary texts and cultural materials such as poems, films, journals, travelogues and the press, this course will help us understand the complex configuration of 20th and 21th century Transatlantic Spanish Peninsular and Insular Literature, and Hispano-African Equatoguinean Literature in Spanish. With an Atlantic and postcolonial approach, against a continental viewpoint, course materials are questioned from a wider geopolitical framework that includes Latin America, Africa and Europe. Among the issues that will be discussed are colonial power, Spanish-African imaginaries in Ceuta, Melilla and Morocco, definitions of Spanish national and peripheral identities, and Orientalism/Occidentalism.

*I first proposed the concept (Pen)Insular Studies in my dissertation at Harvard University, Insular Syntax: Archipelagic Thinking and Relational Literature (2020), as a new and more inclusive term that incorporates and visibilize the traditionally neglected archipelagic spaces of Spain within the field of Spanish literary and cultural studies.


An example of one of the final projects for this class: a website designed with a mapping software (ArcGIS) by four students. Goals: to explore the modern history and cultural production of Equatorial Guinea by mapping its most relevant literary voices, and analyzing the impact of Spanish colonial legacies. This final term work show the multiple possibilities for applying spatial patterns and digital humanities tools into Spanish classes. Explore the work here

Introduction to Latinx Community and Literature in the U.S.

Fall 2018-Spring 2019 

A course on border culture, “Moving Beyond Borders” examines the Latino/a/x experience in the United States through a variety of cultural materials such as literary works (novels, essays, poems, blogs); artistic interventions (installations, paint, performance); music, film, photography and popular iconography. This course seeks to understand the process of Latin American and Caribbean immigration to the United States, and the complex experiences of being Latino/a in this country. We will pay close attention to key theoretical concepts such as Spanglish, code-switching, borders and fluid identities, triple-consciousness, and Latinx imaginary. The course will provide students with the necessary tools and reading strategies to analyze the historical development, problematics and current situation of this multi-layered community, reading Chicano, Boricua, Tex-Mex, Afro-Latinx, Cuban and Dominican-American authors, in Spanish, English and Spanglish.  

Previous Courses

Harvard University (2013-2018)

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