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, 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 & Department of Comparative Literature
Making the Revolution: The Sixties in Latin America
Advanced undergraduate course 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
Spring 2025, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Hemispheric Poetics and Politics
Undergraduate course that offers an exploration of Latin American and Latinx responses to US imperialisms across four historical units: (1) resource extraction and the “Banana Wars” of the early 20th century; (2) the inter-American Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s; (3) US-backed dictatorships and occupations in the Southern Cone and Central America in the 1970s and 1980s; (4) the neoliberal national security complex of the 1990s and 21st century. Rigorous historical contextualization grounds a range of poetic strategies—from the epic to the confessional to the visual.
Spring 2024, Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies
In(ter)vention: The Contemporary Long Poem
Undergraduate course 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
Critical Contexts in Latinx Cultures
Undergraduate survey that offers 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, Yale University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Introduction to Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
Undergraduate survey that introduces students to the analysis of Latin American literary and cultural materials. Each unit begins with the study of a key concept (from colonialism to nationalism to gender, race, 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
In total, I have been the instructor of record for 17 courses.
My full list of teaching experience can be found in my CV.