“Speak only in Spanish,” my colleagues told me. But it is not that easy. When you need to give instructions or grammar explanations, you will probably need to use English. Because of that, I started combining English and Spanish during my classes when necessary. I remember the day I gave…
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Un abrazo en la oscuridad: Re-thinking Teaching after Hurricane Maria
I grew up in an environment of educators. My grandparents, my father, my godmother, and close friends of the family were and are all teachers. The disciplines ranged: from science to the humanities. University professors, public school teachers, and even kindergarten teachers. I have also been lucky to have so…
Reading Junot Díaz with Incarcerated People
I appreciate the fact that my first teaching experience as a graduate student was in a jail. Through an initiative started by the Graduate Comparative Literature Students (GRACLS) organization, I volunteered to teach a Reading World Literature course at the Travis County Correctional Complex (TCCC), a pre-trial facility (a jail…