Rosa Soto
Professor • Department of
She is an avid traveler, who has traveled to over 23 different countries (including Iceland, Peru, Scotland and Ecuador to name a few) and 5 different continents and spends quite a bit of time traveling to National Parks in the United States.
Languages (other than English)
SpanishDegrees
Specialization
Latinx Literature & Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, African-American Studies, & all-around Generalist at WPU. Diversity & Inclusion. Social Justice. Decolonizing the Syllabus. Radical Teaching. Intersectionality.
Representative Publications
Performing Citizenship: Puerto Ricans and their Hybrid "American" Identities;
The Global Citizen: Politics and Policy ; Kendall Hunt Publishing ;
Caribbean Immigrant Women and US Food Practices” What’s Cooking, Mom?;
Narratives about Food and Family; Demeter Press;
2015
Made to be a Maid? An Examination of the Latina as Maid in Mainstream Film and Television;
Mediated Women: Representation in Popular Culture.; Hampton Press;
2008
Representative Presentations
"Decolonize Your Teaching: It Isn't That Hard"
Teaching José Martí in the U.S.: Strategies and Practice
Dr. Rosa Soto: Decolonizing Your Teaching
Crossing Borderlands of Latinidad
Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans: Global Latino/a participants or disconnected realities?
Awards and Honors
04/01/2019
06/14/2009
Notable Courses Taught
Graduate Classes:
Studies in Latinx Literature*
20th Century American Literature
Ethnic American Literature
Women and Autonomy
Literature of African-Americans
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman
Undergraduate Classes:
Latino/a/x Literature in the United States
Latino/a/x Cultural Studies
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
African-American Poetry
Literature of American Cultures
Effective Business Writing
Technical Writing
Early American Literature
American Literature from 1865-1914
Modern American Literature
Methods of Literary Analysis
Introduction to Literature
Senior Seminars:
Ethnic American Literature
Banned Books*
American Gothic Fiction*
Activism and Social Protest in Literature*
Dystopias in American Literature*
The American Dream*
*Indicates Course Created by Me