Guillermo Pernet

Guillermo Pupo Pernet is originally from Colombia, where he received his B.A. in Foreign Language Teaching (English, French, German) from the Universidad del Atlántico. He later pursued a Master of Arts in Online Education from UNAD Florida in 2014 and an additional Master of Arts in Hispanic Literature from the University of Arkansas in 2018. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas.

Pupo Pernet brings over a decade of experience teaching languages, having taught Spanish, French, and English at various institutions in Colombia and the United States. His teaching portfolio includes positions at Universidad del Atlántico, where he taught elementary and intermediate French, as well as the University of Arkansas, where he has taught Elementary and Intermediate Spanish and Cultural Readings.

His academic interests focus on colonial studies examining the knowledge embedded between text and paratext in travel accounts (engravings, maps, and indexes). Pupo Pernet has presented his research at national and international conferences. He has also received grants and fellowships from institutions such as the SEC Emerging Scholars Fellowship at the University of Arkansas, the NEH Summer Institute at Saint Louis University, a Junior Fellowship at the Descartes Centre, Utrecht University, Columbia University and Taalunie for Reading 17th-century Dutch texts and Paleography, and the Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant.