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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 Linfield University 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 ¡Vivas nos queremos! The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, and has published in Palgrave, Hispanic Review, CENTRO Journal, and Ámbitos Feministas. She contributes as an editor and peer reviewer to leading journals such as Afro Hispanic Review, Violence Against Women, and Decimonónica. 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

  • “Las Isabelesde Rosario Ferré y Manuel Ramos Otero: Modelos de desconstrucción de género y sexualidad en la literatura puertorriqueña de la década del setenta.” Revisiting Queer Puerto Rican Sexualities: Queer Futures, Reinventions, and Un-Disciplined Archives. Special Issue of Centro: Journal of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY) 30.2 (2018): 88–113.
  • “Infancia (In)visible: La subjetividad de la niñez como transgresión a la marginalidaden 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.

Scholarly conference presentations

  • “El baúl de Miss Florence: mujeres viajeras y la (des)construcción del mundo azucarero de Puerto Rico.” The Nineteenth Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century conference. California State University, Long Beach, CA. April 26–27, 2019.
  • “Antonio Martorell: El arte de la (re)creación en tiempos de crisis y resistencia.” IX Congreso Internacional: Aportaciones y Retos de la Tradición Cultural Hispánica en una Sociedad Global. Asociación Hispánica de las Humanidades. Universidad de Extremadura, España. June 19–22, 2018.
  • “Las Isabeles: Literatura queer en la cuentística de Rosario Ferré y Manuel Ramos Otero.” XIX Congreso de Literatura Hispánica. Buenos Aires, Argentina. March 8–10, 2017.
  • “Zona. Carga y Descarga: Cuerpo de desafíos y encuentros literarios.” VIII Congreso Internacional, Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (CEISAL). Universidad de Salamanca, España. June 28–July 1, 2016.
  • “Infancia (In)visible: La subjetividad de la niñez como transgresión a la marginalidad en las películas Conducta (2014) y Pelo malo (2013).” Hispanic Literatures Across Culture Conference. Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA. October 6–8, 2016.
  •  “Imagen y evolución: El jíbaro en la literatura y las artes visuales de Puerto Rico.” XVII Congreso de Literatura Hispánica. Mérida, Yucatán, México. March 9–11, 2016
  • “El San Juan metafórico que se reinventa ante la modernidad.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 27–30, 2015.
  • “Sonata Antillana: Maelo y su palenque nacional.” Tenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Florida International University, Miami, FL. February 26–28, 2015.
  • “(De)construcción de la sacarocracia decimonónica: Discursos de género y nación en el Caribe.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Washington, DC. May 29–June 1, 2013.
  • “La vuelta al pasado y sus (des)encuentros literarios: La representación de la hacienda azucarera en Maldito amor y Garduña.” Graduate Student Conference: Ruptures and Transgressions. Brown University, Providence, RI. October 19–20, 2012.