Tania Arabelle Flores

Tania Arabelle Flores (she/ella/ela) is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. Her research examines questions of race, gender, and empire in Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Latinx cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present. She specializes in the racial politics of flamenco historiography, the literature of flamenco, (al-)Andalusian and (post)colonial literary imaginaries, Afro-Orientalism, and the circulation and production of Black internationalist thought within Iberian and Latinx literatures. Her training is in transatlantic studies and postcolonial studies. As a teacher, she strives to create classroom environments that center learning as a joyful experience.

Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Tania worked as a Program Manager at the Dr. Beatriz María Solís Policy Institute (formerly known as the Women's Policy Institute), the flagship program of the Women's Foundation California.

Tania is a 2021-22 and 2022-23 Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at El Centro Chicano y Latino and a 2022-23 recipient of the Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship. She is also a 2014-15 recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant (Granada, Spain). She is currently the Graduate Co-Coordinator of New Flamencologías: A Collaborative Research Group on Critical Flamenco Studies, Generaciones: A Collaborative Research Group on Diasporic Mexicanidades, and Scholarship and Activism for Justice. She is also a member of Stanford's Postcolonial Spatialities and Matters of Voice workshops, the co-president of Flamenco Cardenal, and a mentor through El Centro Chicano y Latino's Frosh Scholars Program.
 

Teaching Experience:

• Summer 2022 (Stanford Summer Humanities Institute): Magical Realism: 100 Years of Solitude (TA-ship with Professor Héctor Hoyos)
• Winter 2022: The Laboring of Diaspora and Border Literary Cultures (co-teaching with Professor José David Saldívar)
• Autumn 2021: SPANLANG 11C (second-year Spanish, first quarter, cultural emphasis)
• Summer 2021 (Stanford Summer Humanities Institute): Magical Realism: 100 Years of Solitude (TA-ship with Professor Héctor Hoyos)
• Spring 2021: SPANLANG 3 (first-year Spanish, third quarter)
• Winter 2021: SPANLANG 2 (first-year Spanish, second quarter)
• Autumn 2020: SPANLANG 1 (first-year Spanish, first quarter)

Languages:

• English (native)
• Spanish (native)
• Portuguese (advanced)
• Catalan (advanced)
• Arabic (beginner)