Dr. Manuel Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, researches Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality. Recently, Dr. Cuellar and other scholars published La escenificación de lo mexicano y la interpelación de un público nacional: la Noche Mexicana de 1921 in the journal of Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature.
This semester, Dr. Cuellar is teaching Texts and Contexts of the Spanish-Speaking World (SPAN 3100W) and Queer Latin America (SPAN 3550). In his Community Engaged Scholarship course, Studies in Latinx Cultural Production (SPAN 4480), students served with a variety of community partners and completed 300+ hours of service.
To learn more about Dr. Cuellar's work, please click here to read his interview with Community Engaged Scholarship. Recently, Dr. Cuellar was interviewed on Ideas on Fire (IOF), a podcast, where he discussed, Imagine Otherwise: Manuel Cuellar on Dancing as Community Building. In addition, Dr. Cuellar was featured on The Jesse Garcia Show: "Keeping Culture Alive with Dr. Manuel Cuellar where he discussed his work inside and outside of the class room. And, Dr. Cuellar was also featured in INtune Episode 12 - LA PALOMA AT THE WALL - The Director's Salon where speakers intertwined community conversations with musical performances.
In addition to being an Affiliate Faculty of The Honey W. Nashman Center of Civic Engagement and Public Service, Dr. Cuellar is an Affiliated Faculty of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. We are honored to have Dr. Cuellar as member of Community Engaged Scholarship.
To learn more about how we support our community engaged faculty, please click here. To learn more about how to get a course designated as a community engaged scholarship course, please click here.
