Rebecca Carrero Figueroa

Instructor of Spanish 

Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2021
Phone: 225-578-2636
Email: rcarrero1@lsu.edu
Office: 357 Hodges Hall 

Publications

“El binomio historia y ficción en Duerme de Carmen Boullosa, La novia oscura de Laura Restrepo y Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza. Doctoral Dissertation on Hispanic Studies defended on May 2021.

“La revelación milenarista en los cuentos cortos de Miriam M. González-Hernández, de Ricardo Cintrón Bracero”. Revista Cultural El Relicario. April 2016.

Service to the Community and LSU

Service to the Department: First-Year Graduate Assistant Mentor 2020 Fall Semester

Spanish Conversation Table- Fall 2020

Committee Assignments

Diversity Committee

New Spanish Instructor Search Committee

SPAN 1101 & 1152 Assessments Committees

Teaching Assignments

SPAN 1101- Elementary Spanish I (in person & fully online)

SPAN 1152- Intensive Beginning Spanish

SPAN 2101- Intermediate Spanish course I

SPAN 2102- Intermediate Spanish course II

SPAN 2155- Spanish Language and Culture

SPAN 3010- Advanced Spanish Grammar Composition

Conference Presentations (5 years to present)

“Los intercambios culturales y la hibridez en Duerme de Carmen Boullosa”- Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) Virtual Congress- May 28, 2021.

“Nos desorientamos y fuimos a dar al palenque: Tras las huellas inconclusas de
Boriquén”- XXVIII National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS)
Congress - February 21, 2020.

“Al rescate de los marginados en La novia oscura, de Laura Restrepo”- XXXVII
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress- May 25, 2019.

“Desde el espejo de Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza”- XXXVI Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) Barcelona, España- May 26, 2018.

“La memoria histórica en cuatro personajes femeninos de capa Prieto de Yvonne
Denis Rosario”- XXXIV Latin American Studies Association (LASA) New York-
May 31, 2016.