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Hector Ramos Flores

Title

Associate Professor of Spanish

Department

Spanish

Information

Address

4686 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

Title Course Number(s) Section(s)
Introduction to Critical Analysis: Puerto Rico, Migration, and Memory SP135K A
Spanish Language for Heritage Learners SP127H A
Engaged Citizenship CE200,    CE200 A,    A
Elementary Spanish I SP125 A
Race, Rights, and Land in the Americas AA346,    LA346,    SP346 A,    A,    A
Aqui estamos: U.S. Latinx in the 20th and 21st Centuries (in English) SP254,    AM253,    CA254 A,    A,    A

Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

  • Latinx Studies

  • Caribbean Studies

  • Latin American Studies

  • race, memory, trauma, and masculinity

  • Africana Studies

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, Latino Studies, and Latin American Research Review. He has a co-edited volume titled 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 Longing: Puerto Ricans, Resistance, and Memory (Under contract, SUNY Press) which examines the articulation of longing in Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican-American art, film, and literature. He is currently working on a project that interrogates the representation of Dominican history and culture in street art murals in New York and Madrid. Ramos Flores earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2019.