Areas I Teach
Areas I Teach
Dr. Theumer is a teacher-scholar specializing in all levels of language instruction, and Latin American literature and cultures. Her research on Cuban identity and literary modernity centers non-conformist writers, exploring how their work disrupts hegemonic concepts of nation, race and gender. She is looking forward to collaborating with students, colleagues and the Forest Grove community on innovative approaches to teaching Spanish.
Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
M.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Nevada, Reno, 2004
B.A., Modern Languages and Literatures, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 2003
Courses I teach at Pacific U:
SPA 101 Beginning Spanish I
SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish I
Recent Publications
鈥淏ecoming Casal. Itinerant Identities in 20th Century Cuban Poetry.鈥 Book manuscript in progress.
鈥淎n Improbable Precursor: Reconsidering Poveda's negrismo." Afro-Hispanic Review, forthcoming.
鈥淏ecoming Casal: Jos茅 Manuel Poveda鈥檚 鈥淐anto 茅lego鈥 and 鈥淧ara la lectura de las
Rimas de Juli谩n del Casal.鈥 Ciberletras vol. 41, 2019, pp. 24-37.
鈥淓l alma cubana de Jos茅 Manuel Poveda.鈥 Confluencia, vol. 34, no. 1, 2018, pp. 36-46.
鈥淣omadic Identity and lo cubano in Jos茅 Manuel Poveda.鈥 Latin American Literary
Review, vol. 44, no. 87, 2017, pp. 16-23.
鈥淕ender and Poetic Voice in Alma Rubens.鈥 Chasqui, vol. 46, no. 1, 2017, pp. 167-77.
鈥淗ablar de la nieve: Intertextualidad en Juli谩n del Casal y Fina Garc铆a Marruz.鈥 La Habana Elegante, vol. 53, 2013. Web.
"The Case of Alma Rubens or the Trans-Gendered Imagination in Jos茅 Manuel Poveda." Rocky Mountain Review, vol. 67, no. 1, 2013, pp. 27-40.