Guillermo Pernet
Visiting Instructor of Spanish
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.
Education
MA| University of Arkansas| 2018
MA| UNAD Florida| 2014
BA| Universidad del Atlántico| 2012
Courses Taught
Spanish 101 (Elementary I)
Spanish 201 (Intermediate I)
Publications
- Coquery-vidrovitch, Catherine. Les routes de l'esclavage histoire des traites africaines VIe-XXe siècle, Albin Michel, Paris, 2018. In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (Issue 89). Book review.
- Peŕez Morales, Edgardo. No Limits to their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolution. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. In Revue Tunisienne d'Etudes Hispaniques (Issue 6). Book review.
- Aching, Gerard. Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. In Historia Caribe (Volume 14, Issue 34). Book review.
- “Mapping race in the 18th century” in Anti-Racist Pedagogy Colloquium co-hosted by the Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA) and Romantic Circles (RC). https://www.k-saa.org/toc-for-assignments-and-syllabi
Presentations
- Renaissance Society of America: Twenty-First-Century Plant Humanities and the Global Renaissance; “Achiote: Painting the Town Red”, Chicago, IL, March 21st– 23rd, 2024.
- Black Experiences in the Wider Atlantic: Approaches, Methods and the Archive; “Black Matter: Assagays in Provincia de Venezuela”, Penn State University, PA, April 12th, 2024.
- Africa in Iberia: Memories, Genealogies, and Geographies in early modernity; “Between lines: Rhizomes of Blackness and Indigeneity”, Fayetteville, AR, November 2nd–4th, 2023.
- The University of Manchester; “Mapping Achiote: A Colonial Fruit Exchange System” Manchester, United Kingdom. June 6th, 2023.
- Descartes Centre Colloquium; “Arnoldus Montanus: Accumulation and Compilation of African Identity” Utrecht, Netherlands. February 21st, 2023.
- Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference; “Remapping Orinoco: Joseph Gumilla and Noticia del principio y progresos del establecimiento de las missiones de gentiles”, Chicago, IL, January 16th– 20th, 2023.
- The Renaissance Society of America Lightning Talks: Rethinking the Global Renaissance 2022; “Fossilizing Blackness: Alexander de Batz and Maroon Communities,” Online, November 4th, 2022.
- Tulane Gulf South Indigenous Studies Symposium 2022; “Entre el mapa y la pluma: Indigenous Knowledge of Space”. New Orleans, LA. March 18th– 19th, 2022.