Spanish and Portuguese scholar with a presentable history of working in the higher education industry. Bilingual English-Spanish with skills in Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese. Award winning instructor and researcher.

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I have received broad training in seminars that circumnavigated the Hispanophone and Lusophone worlds, from Spain and Portugal to Latin American, Afro-Hispanic, and Caribbean literatures, covering various genres and literary movements. I have also taken seminars in diaspora studies, film studies, translation theory, cultural studies, and fulfilled various Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian language courses.

I am currently working in my innovative project, which debunks myths about Asian passivity and unilateral cultural transfer from West to East. I am in the academic world to do collaborative humanities work across Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Critical Theory Studies, Colonial and Decolonial Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese literatures.

My linguistic and cultural competence in Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, and Chinese languages is rare in academia, and it is rarer still for a Latino with no Chinese parentage to study and conduct research on early modern Spanish and Portuguese Asia.