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Contact Information

4142 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
ey6@illinois.edu
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Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests

  • Enlightenment in New Spain
  • Transpacific studies
  • Ocean studies

 

Education

  • PhD. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (in progress)
  • MA. Hispanic Literatures - Seoul National University, Seoul
  • BA. Spanish - Hankuk University of Foriegn Studies, Seoul

 

Grants

  • 2025 Newberry Short-Term Fellowship
  • 2024 Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grants
  • 2023 Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowship, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, UIUC
  • 2023 Department Research Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UIUC

 

Awards and Honors

  • 2025 Pilar Sáenz Graduate Student Essay Award, Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
  • 2022 Best Graduate Student Paper - Spanish and Portuguese, UIUC

Courses Taught

  • SPAN 130 Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 141 Introduction to Spanish Grammar
  • SPAN 228 Spanish Composition
  • SPAN 248 Latin American Diaspora through Film
  • SPAN 324 Latin America Cultural Studies - "Asia in Colonial Latin America"