Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Office:
Washington Hall 234
Email:
[[tvmartin]]
Born and raised in the Canary Islands, Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez is a scholar in Modern and Contemporary Pen/Insular Studies* and the Global Hispanophone—African and Asian literature in Spanish. Her research and teaching engage with race theory, island studies, and postcolonial thought, within African and Asian studies, and the cultural production of the Canary Islands.
Her book project, tentatively titled De-centering Hispanism. African and Asian Hispanophone Peripheries into Focus, intersects traditionally neglected Equatoguinean and Filipino colonial archives, and postcolonial literature and cultural production in Spanish.
As a public scholar, she created CISLANDERUS, a cultural project that explores 18th-century Canarian immigration to Louisiana, and its evolution to the present day. Her work has resulted in a major traveling exhibition and a documentary film.
Before coming to William & Mary, she taught at Trinity College, the University of California, Davis, Duke University, Vassar College, and Harvard University.
Ph.D., Harvard University. M.A. and B.A., Comparative Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (medal by H.R.H. Infanta Cristina). B.A., Hispanic Philology, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
