Guillermo Pernet

Guillermo Pupo Pernet is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas. His research centers on colonial Latin America, with a focus on how Indigenous and African knowledge, identities, and experiences are mediated in travel accounts, engravings, maps, and indexes. Through the study of texts, paratexts, and archival sources, his work examines how Afro-Indigenous communities negotiated colonial regimes, preserving traditions and knowledge through performance and material culture. His scholarship has been supported by the SEC Emerging Scholars Fellowship (University of Arkansas), an NEH Summer Institute (Saint Louis University), a Junior Fellowship at the Descartes Centre (Utrecht University), Research Development Grants for BIPOC Scholars, and the CRGC Fellowship (Saint Louis University).

Pupo Pernet brings over a decade of experience teaching languages and cultures, including Spanish, French, and English, in Colombia and the United States. His teaching has spanned from language instruction at the Universidad del Atlántico to courses in Spanish language and cultural readings at the University of Arkansas, where he connects language instruction with broader cultural and historical contexts.