Teaching Experience
I have taught Spanish language and Literatures in Hemispheric contexts at the University of California, Irvine, Northwestern University and Princeton University. Currently, I teach interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate seminars in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Visit to the archives of the Latin American Special Collections, Princeton University, September 2024. We saw original works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alejandra Pizarnik and Cecilia Vicuña.
To know more about my course activities and visits check them out here at PLAS, Princeton.
Original Courses
Sonic Intimacy in Latin(x)America
This course examines the role of sound in contemporary Latin American and Latinx artistic and literary production, focusing on how sonic forms reshape perception and narrative. Beginning with foundational concepts from sound studies we will explore how sound appears across poetry, performance, installation, film, and experimental media. We will consider how sound disrupts the visual and textual dominance in cultural analysis and opens space for embodied, affective, and collective forms of knowing. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically analyze how sound operates as a creative and political force in Latin(x) America.
Witchcraft and Activism
This course explores the relationship between gender and power through an analysis of “practices of craftsmanship” of so-called rebellious Latin(x) American women who were seen as witches, traitors, even monsters, but also as enchanters, healers, and creators. At Princeton University, Fall 2024.
The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation.
Memory in Latin(x) American cultural production is composed of multiple layers: historical fragments, residues of violence, fragile artistic materials, bodies marked by dictatorship and feminicide, and traces of ecological destruction. This seminar explores how can memory itself liberate? This seminar examines how poets and artists use residues to challenge static histories to explore memory as a force for imagining alternative futures. At Princeton University, Spring 2025
Love and Joy in Latinx Poetry and Poetics
This course explores contemporary Latinx women and non-binary poets who use poetry as a tool to defy bodily constraints, including gender norms, authoritarian oppression, and censorship. It reimagines the connections between gender, queer love, and activism in a hemispheric lens through three key modules: “The Languages of Desire,” “The Poetics of Protest and Intimacy,” and “Queer Archives.” New course proposed.
PAST TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spanish 204: Artivism in Times of Political Change at Northwestern University, Fall 2023
Spanish 101-1: Elementary at Northwestern University, Fall 2023-Spring 2024
Spanish 50 (Online) – Latin American Ecologies (Teaching Practicum with Prof. Viviane Mahieux) at UC Irvine, Spring 2020
Comparative Literature 60B -Reading with Theory (Teaching Practicum with Prof. Adriana Johnson) at UC Irvine, Winter 2020
As Teaching Assistant at the University of California, Irvine
HIS 40C (online) – Modern America, Culture and Power, Spring 2021
HIS 21B (online) – World History: Empires and Revolutions, Winter 2021
FMS 85C (online) – History of Broadcast Media and Television, Summer 2020
FMS 85A – Introduction to Film Analysis, Winter 2020
FMS 85A – Introduction to Film and Media Studies, 2019
As Instructor of Record at the University of California, Irvine
Spanish 1ABC, Fall, Winter, Spring 2017-2023
Spanish 2AB Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer 2019-2022
bell hooks
“To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn. To teach believing that our work is not merely to share information, but to share in the intellectual growth of our students. To teach in a manner that respects and cares for our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”
Isabella Vergara C. 