Tania Flores

Tania Flores (B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., Stanford University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish, where she teaches beginning and intermediate-level Spanish courses. Tania is passionate about proficiency-based approaches to second- and third-language acquisition and has experience teaching Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese in a wide range of settings. Her research interests include the literature of flamenco; Black internationalism and Afro-diasporic thought in Latin America; Spanish Orientalism; and Spanish feminism. A former Fulbright Research Scholar, Tania is a literary critic and cultural historian whose work emphasizes archival methods and draws from performance studies, dance studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and ethnomusicology. She is currently at work on her first book project, titled The Pharaohs of Flamenco: Afro-Orientalist Genealogies of Gitanidad in Modern Spain.

• SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II

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