
Hector Ramos Flores
Title
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department
Spanish
Information
- (207) 859-4405
- [email protected]
- (207) 859-4405
- Lovejoy 325
Current Courses
CRS | Title | Sec |
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SP131H | Spanish Composition for Heritage Learners | A |
SP135K | Introduction to Critical Analysis: Puerto Rico, Migration, and Memory | A |
SP495 | Seminar: The Shifting Americas: Race, Power, and Subjectivity | A |
Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Areas of Expertise
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Latinx Studies
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Africana Studies
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Latin American Studies
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race, memory, trauma, and masculinity
Personal Information
Nicolás Ramos Flores is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colby College where he teaches courses in Caribbean and Latinx studies. Ramos Flores researches the intersections of racial discourse, memory, and masculinity in Latinx and Caribbean cultural products. His work has appeared in Hispanic Issues Online, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Chiricú, and Latin American Research Review. He has a forthcoming article in Latino Studies on the representation of Latinos in the Interim National Pulse Memorial. He has a co-edited volume called Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability (2022) with University of Pittsburgh Press that explores the resistances of Black lives in the Americas. He is currently working on his first book manuscript titled Archipelagoes of Memory: Puerto Ricans, Resistance, and Colonial Continuities (Under contract, SUNY Press) which examines the interwoven nature of memory formation in contemporary Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican-American art, film, and literature. He is currently working on a project that interrogates the role of nostalgia in Puerto Rican street murals in Chicago and Philadelphia. Ramos Flores earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2019.