Developing an inclusive, culturally aware classroom experience for 快猫短视频 students is one of Dr. G茅nesis Portillo鈥檚 goals. She teaches French and Spanish language courses and upper-level courses on Spanish and Latin American literature. As an instructor at Florida International University prior to joining the 快猫短视频 faculty in 2021, she also taught Spanish classes focused on business communication.

In her classes, she values students鈥� participation and enjoys joking around with them. She draws connections for them between what they are reading in Spanish language literature and contemporary political and social developments in Latin America and Spain.

Dr. Portillo also has worked as a copyeditor and translator. She is a member of the Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association and Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.

Areas of Interest/Expertise

• 19th-century Peruvian history and literature
• Worldwide cinema
• 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Latin American literature

Education

• French as a foreign language, certificate, French Institute Alliance Fran莽aise, 2022
• Ph.D., Spanish language and literature, Florida International University, 2020
• B.A., Peruvian and Latin American literatures, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru)

Grants

• 鈥淪谩tira y contrahistorias en la Guerra Civil Peruana (1895) a trav茅s de la prensa pol铆tico-sat铆rica en Lima (1892鈥�1895),鈥� Jacob E. Nyenhuis Faculty Development Research Grant, 快猫短视频, 2021

Selected Publications and Presentations

• 鈥淟a inestable grisette: representaci贸n femenina en 鈥楲as transformaciones de Mim铆 Pins贸n,鈥欌�� presentation at Simposio Internacional Rub茅n Dar铆o: el Archivo y la Vida, University of Notre Dame, 2023
• S谩tira y contrahistorias en la Guerra Civil Peruana (1895) a trav茅s de la prensa pol铆tico-sat铆rica en Lima (1892鈥�1895) (editor), 2023
• 鈥淒ominando a la bestia: el tedio como catalizador en Pu帽ales escondidos (1998),鈥� in Pilar Dughi: Ave de la noche (edited by P. Giovanna and M. Rodriguez Barreno), forthcoming
• 鈥�Tocas y sotanas (1910) o la novela como protesta,鈥� Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2022
• 鈥淩evisitando el costumbrismo: hac铆a una lectura del costumbrismo decimon贸nico,鈥� with M. Watson, in Historia de las Literaturas en el Per煤, vol. 3, edited by M. Vel谩zquez Castro and R. Chang-Rodr铆guez, 2021
• 鈥淢ujeres evanescentes o lo femenino ornamental en Cuentos Mal茅volos de Clemente Palma,鈥� 顿别肠颈尘辞苍贸苍颈肠补, 2019

Outside the College

As someone interested in photography, Dr. Portillo is fascinated by light and enjoys how different it is in Holland, Michigan, than it is in Peru. Having grown up there with warm temperatures all year round, she takes pleasure in Michigan鈥檚 seasons as well.

She loves to read novels while sipping tea, particularly novels that look at the experience of females in different periods of history. She gravitates to foreign literature such as Eastern Asian and Western European literature.