Maria Catalina Rojas Blanco

She has taught elementary, intermediate, and advanced Spanish courses for undergrads at Southern Illinois University (SIUC) and the University of Tennessee. She currently teaches SPAN 240 at UMass Amherst and other Spanish courses at other institutions of higher education. 

Her research interests include Latin American and Caribbean literature ans culture; issues at the intersection of race, gender, and the African legacy in the Spanish Americas; and Latin American Colombian women writers of African descent. She has published papers such as “María Teresa Ramirez Nieva o la Griot de los Ancestros y las Ancestras,” in Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature and Culture, and “ Georgina Herrera o el empoderamiento de las mujeres, las ancestras y las palabras,” in MIFLC Review.