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Tania Carrasquillo Hernández

Tania Carrasquillo Hernández Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies; Chair, Global Languages and Cultural Studies


Walker Hall 317

503-883-2522

tcarrasq@linfield.edu

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Tania Carrasquillo Hernández is a Puerto Rican scholar in the diaspora and Chair of Global Languages and Cultural Studies at 明星黑料 whose teaching and research connect learning, life, and community through language, literature, and culture. She has lived and studied in Puerto Rico, Connecticut, and Iowa, studied abroad in Morocco, and now calls Oregon her professional home. These experiences are central to the interdisciplinary perspective she brings to the classroom, cultivating cultural awareness, civic responsibility, and global engagement.

With more than eighteen years of teaching experience across public and private institutions, Dr. Carrasquillo Hernández has taught all levels of Spanish language as well as interdisciplinary courses on migration, women’s writing, gender, music in the Hispanic Caribbean, and visual arts in Puerto Rico. She has been invited to teach in Middlebury College’s prestigious Summer Language Schools since 2022 and leads January Term courses in Spain and Puerto Rico, creating immersive academic experiences beyond campus.

Her scholarship focuses on nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture. She co-edited the volume , and has published in , , , and . She contributes as an editor and peer reviewer to leading journals such as , , and . Her research trajectory has been recognized with Linfield’s Marvin and Laurie Henberg International Scholarship Award, the Allan and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholarship Award, and a Princeton University Library Research Grant supporting her book project on personal archives and feminist political discourses in the works of Rosario Ferré.

Education

  • B.A., 2002, Music Performance, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico
  • M.S., 2008, Romance Languages; Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, Southern Connecticut State University
  • Ph.D., 2013, Spanish Literatures, University of Iowa

Publications

  • “El baúl de Miss Florence: Women Travelers and the Deconstruction of Puerto Rico’s Nineteenth Century Slave-Based Plantation Imaginary.” The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Claire Emilie Martin and Clorinda Donato. Palgrave Macmillan, (2024): 171–187.
  • “Colectivo Moriviví: Reconfiguring Puerto Rican Nation Through Performative Activism and Feminist Art Spaces.” Ámbitos Feministas, Spring Issue XII (2024): 43–66.
  • Co-editor (with Diana Aramburu), “¡Vivas nos queremos! The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora.” Special Issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, (CUNY) 35.2 (2023).
  • Co-author (with Diana Aramburu), “From Victimization to Feminist Revolution: Performing Decolonized Bodies as Acts of Collective Rebellion in Puerto Rico.” Special Issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. (CUNY) 35.2 (2023): 7–29.
  • “Terrorismo íntimo: la violencia contra la mujer en La casa de la laguna de Rosario Ferré.” “¡Vivas nos queremos! The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora.” Special Issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Ed. Diana Aramburu and Tania Carrasquillo Hernández. (CUNY) 35.2 (2023): 271–289.
  • “Crime, Women, and Fiction: Narrating Urban Puerto Rican Femicide in Ana Lydia Vega’s “Pasión de historia” (1987)” Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture. Ed. Nick Phillips and Diana Aramburu. The University of Minnesota: Hispanic Issues (2022): 123–144.
  • “Infancia (In)visible: La subjetividad de la niñez como transgresión a la marginalidad en las películas Conducta (2014) y Pelo malo (2013).” Literatures (A)cross Cultures. Colombia: Torre Gráfica (2017): 59–87.
  • “La charca y la consagración del subalterno puertorriqueño: Una mirada desde el siglo XXI al naturalismo de Manuel Zeno Gandía.” AU NATUREL: (Re) Reading Hispanic Naturalism. Ed. Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante and Lara Anderson. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars (2010): 77–94.