Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ortega Hall 443
(505) 277-5516
E-mail: esantia@unm.edu

Research areas:

• Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture
• Afro-Hispanic literature and culture
• Latin American literature

Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University (2003). His areas of specialization are Latin American literature with emphasis on the Hispanic Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture. His scholarly and teaching interests include critical theory on race, writing and modernity, Puerto Rican literature, Latin American Modernismo, Latino Caribbean literature in the United States, contemporary social poetry, tropical music and sports. Before coming to the University of New Mexico, he had taught Latin American literature and culture, Spanish language, and African and diaspora studies at Tulane University, St. Cloud State University and Cambridge Community College in Minnesota. Some of the courses taught include: Modernismo in Spanish American Literature (graduate course), Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean (in English translation) Caribbean Identities (graduate course), Introduction to Latin American Culture, Senior seminar on Asturias and Carpentier, Plague in Latin American Literature, Literature of the Spanish Caribbean (graduate course), and U.S. Latino Caribbean literature. Professor Santiago-Díaz was born in Patillas, Puerto Rico, and graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a B.A. in Anthropology and Geography. He received a Teacher Certification in Spanish and Secondary Education from the University of Puerto Rico and worked as a teacher of Spanish in Puerto Rican public schools for seven years. He has a Master’s Degree in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara.