{"id":1,"date":"2012-08-13T02:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-11-07T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T03:15:58","slug":"kristinamedina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/2012\/08\/13\/kristinamedina\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Spanish at St Olaf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/depts\/spanish\/faculty\/KristinaMedina.html\">http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/depts\/spanish\/faculty\/KristinaMedina.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Medina-Vilari\u00f1o is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Latin American Studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She completed a B.A. in Hispanic Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica in Ponce, Puerto Rico (her hometown;) an\u00a0M.A. in\u00a0Spanish at the University of Florida in Gainesville; and a Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds minors in Latin American Studies and Latin@\/x Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-04-at-6.06.59-PM-300x227.png\" alt=\"En Puerto Rico\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As an undergrad, she studied abroad in Spain, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Through the Foreign Languages Area Studies fellowship she was able to study abroad in Brazil during her doctoral studies, where she also conducted research on contemporary poetry and Afro-Brazilian culture. She complemented cultural immersion experiences, by developing her pedagogy skills as a graduate student, and completed a\u00a0Teaching Scholar Certificate\u00a0and a\u00a0Graduate Teacher Certificate\u00a0with the<a href=\"http:\/\/citl.illinois.edu\/about-citl\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Center for Teaching Excellence\u00a0at the University of Illinois.<\/a> A impactful motivational force for her was being included several times in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Her areas of expertise are\u00a0Hispanic Caribbean contemporary literatures, films, and cultural studies. Her research emerges from the intersection of Latino\/a\/x Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Latin American Studies, which she connects in her work through theoretical approaches to transnationalism, migration, gender and sexuality, national identity, and race.\u00a0 Her upcoming book (to be published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorialislanegra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editorial\u00a0Isla Negra<\/a>) examines the literary, cybernetic, and cinematic representations of Dominicanness (the processes of identity construction and the\u00a0embodiment\u00a0of &#8220;dominicanidad&#8221;) in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the United States.\u00a0 She has published articles on Dominican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican films and literatures, and\u00a0has taught numerous courses in Latina\/x\/o Studies Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, and\u00a0Spanish language\/literature at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, where she regularly emphasizes Civic Engagement.\u00a0 Among her other current research projects is a study of the integration of a Latina\/x\/o Studies curriculum and pedagogy in Spanish departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/depts\/spanish\/faculty\/KristinaMedina.html Dr. Medina-Vilari\u00f1o is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Latin American Studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She completed a B.A. in Hispanic Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica in Ponce, Puerto <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/2012\/08\/13\/kristinamedina\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  About me<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}