I have taught across the curricula in Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Comparative Literature at a range of institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, Kenyon College, Washington and Lee University, Princeton University, and Yale University. At Yale, I teach courses on Latin American and Latinx literature and culture, hemispheric studies, avant-gardes, and translation.
Exhibition-Action, “Making the Revolution: The Sixties in Latin America” Kenyon College, Fall 2021
Original Courses
Translation in Latin American and Latinx Literature
Graduate or advanced undergraduate seminar that examines how translation has functioned, in site-specific fashion, as theoretical program and experimental mode within “original” Latin American and Latinx literatures. These featured works include pseudotranslations, unreliable self-translations, transcreations, translingual texts, and fictions with translator-protagonists. These materials are read alongside essential theory and criticism that surface distinctly Latin(x) American itineraries for translation.
Undergraduate version — Fall 2023, Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies
Graduate version — Fall 2024, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Comparative Literature
Making the Revolution: The Sixties in Latin America
Advanced undergraduate course on the cultural production of the Latin American “long 1960s” (1959-1973). The course is organized around key socio-political concepts—like anti-imperialist liberation, uneven modernity, and popular mobilization—and focuses on alternative genres, including manifestos, visual poetry, comics, 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
Spring 2025, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Hemispheric Poetics and Politics
Undergraduate course that offers an exploration of Latin American and US Latinx poetic responses to US imperialisms. The course moves from 1898 to the present day, covering territorial expansion, the so-called “Banana Wars,” the disintegration of the Good Neighbor era, the inter-American Cold War, US-backed dictatorships and occupations, the neoliberal national security complex, and how these foreign policies “come home.” Rigorous historical contextualization grounds a range of poetic strategies—from the epic to the confessional and the documentary to the visual.
English/Comparative Literature version — Spring 2024, Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies
Spanish/Comparative Literature version - Fall 2025, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Comparative Literature
Latin American Avant-Gardes
Graduate seminar covering Latin American avant-garde movements and networks from across the 20th and 21st centuries. We trace the region’s avant-gardes from their foundational manifestos, little magazines, interdisciplinary collaborations, and major works to their contemporary reactivations in print, performance, and digital media. Students explore how artists have reimagined the avant-garde in dialogue with global currents and local struggles. Readings combine primary works with foundational and emerging theories, examining the intersections of aesthetics, politics, and cultural translation across the continent.
Spring 2026, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Critical Contexts in Latinx Cultures
Undergraduate survey offering an in-depth exploration of post-1960 Latinx cultural production in the United States. Features a wide-range of materials, including poetry, short stories, performance art, film, television, essays, and music, that address themes of identity formation, language, discrimination, generational inheritance, migration and border crossing, and the transhistorical legacies of colonialism and imperialism in the Americas. We balance an approach that moves between the US and Latin America, viewing Latinx cultural production as offering important insights not only on local communities, but the American hemisphere at large.
Fall 2024 & Spring 2026, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Critical Inquiries: Spain, Latin America, and the Latinx World
Undergraduate survey that introduces students to the analysis of Latin American Spanish, and US Latinx literary and cultural production from the 16th century to the present day. The course is organized around four modules: languages, identities, knowledges, and ecologies. Materials include poetry, short stories, essays, film, music, performance art, graphic novels, and photography. Course assignments and workshops train close reading and critical writing skills to prepare students for advanced-level coursework. *core departmental course with original syllabus
Spring 2025 & Fall 2025, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
In total, I have been the instructor of record for 21 courses.
My full list of teaching experience can be found in my CV.