Associate Professor of Spanish Language & Literature
M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook
B.A., University of Puerto Rico
Professor Labrador-Rodríguez’s interests in teaching and research include Afro-Spanish American literature and history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, literature written by Cuban slaves, contemporary Caribbean literature and culture, and race and nation in Spanish America. She has published several articles about race and the role of intellectuals in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Recent Courses
Elementary Spanish II
Spanish Conversation and Composition
Selected Publications
Labrador-Rodriguez, S. (2006). "Un Capitulo de la 'Este'tica de la
Furia': la Revista Zona Carga y Descarga." Hispanismo: Discursos
Culturales, Identidad y Memoria. VII Congreso Nacional de Hispanistas,
Tucuman, Argentina, 2 247-258.
Labrador-Rodriguez, S. (2006). Nicolas
Guillen y sus Antecesores: la 'Poesia Blanca'de los Poetas Negros del
Siglo XIX. Homenaje a Nicolas Guillen (pp. 231-247). Veracruz, Mexico:
Instituto de Investigaciones Linguistico-Literarias, Universidad
Vezacruzana, Coleccion Cuadernos.