I have taught across the Spanish language and Hispanic literatures and cultures curricula at three institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, Kenyon College, and Washington and Lee University. Currently, I teach interdisciplinary seminars in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University.
Exhibition-Action, “Making the Revolution: The Sixties in Latin America” Kenyon College, Fall 2021
Original Courses
Translation and Rewriting in Latin(x) American Literature
Advanced seminar dedicated to the analysis of Latin American and Latinx texts from much of the 20th and 21st centuries that engage translation as trope, form, or material apparatus (including translation narratives, fake translations, mistranslations, transcreations) as well as those that rewrite established texts from the margins. Materials are read alongside pivotal essays in Latin(x) American translation theory.
Fall 2023, Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies
Making the Revolution: The Sixties in Latin America
Advanced seminar that offers an exploration of the cultural production from the Latin American “long 1960s” (1959-1973). The course is organized around key political concepts—like anti-imperialist liberation, uneven modernity, and popular mobilization—and focuses on alternative genres, including manifestos, visual poetry, experimental journalism, literary magazines, documentaries, newsreels, and art actions. The course culminates in a public-facing exhibition-action to bring the 1960s to the 2020s.
Fall 2021, Kenyon College, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Fall 2022, Washington and Lee University, Department of Romance Languages
Hemispheric Poetics and Politics
Advanced seminar that examines the ways in which Latin American and U.S. poetries intersect—in tension or collaboration—particularly in response to pivotal moments of hemispheric politics. The course is loosely organized around periods of inter-American interaction, from the Good Neighbor era through the Cold War to today’s neoliberal globalization.
Spring 2024, Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies
In(ter)vention: The Contemporary Long Poem
Advanced seminar focused on the long poem as a mechanism for social, historical, and cultural intervention—and, in some cases, invention. Studied texts include counter-epics, sub/versions of the canon, documentary poetics, and border writing. This course is designed to iterate. Each iteration traces a particular theme in a transnational Latin(x) American context (i.e. queer poetics) or follows a geographic focus (i.e. Mexico and Central America) and explores from new angles the same core question: what makes a long poem long other than length?
Spring 2022, Kenyon College, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Introduction to Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
Survey course that introduces students to the analysis of Latin American and Latinx literary and cultural materials. Each unit begins with the study of a key concept (from colonialism to nationalism to gender, race, latinidad, diaspora, borders) and is paired with relevant materials that span the 16th century to the present day.
Spring 2020, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
My full list of teaching experience can be found in my CV.