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Hector Ramos Flores

Title

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Department

Spanish

Information

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
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

  • 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.