Teaching

I teach courses addressing the art and architecture of colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, the expressive arts of Africa, museum studies, Black Atlantic print culture, eighteenth and nineteenth century European art, Marian devotions and identity formation in the Americas, and contemporary Latinx and Latin American art.

My teaching philosophy draws from many fountains: Black Feminist Pedagogies, Allan de Souza’s decolonial glossaries for critiquing and discussing art, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogies of the Oppressed, and Josefina Báez’s Performance-Autology —a practice of learning and creating that centers self-care and radical joy. In the classroom, I prioritize curiosity and strive to cultivate in students a healthy dose of skepticism in the epistemic neutrality of authors; especially since we are working within the traditionally Eurocentric discipline of art history.

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In conversation with Josefina Báez and Carlos Snaider after her performance of “Trilogy. An Offering”. Organized as part of Visualizing Black Iberia in Spring 2024 at The University of Washington, Seattle.