Recent and Future Courses

• SPAN 344 Mapping Latin American Culture
• SPAN 335 Asian Latin(x) American Encounters
• SPAN 402 The City in Latin America

Paula Park’s research and teaching interests are Latin American, US Latinx, and Hispanophone and Anglophone Philippine literature and cultural productions from the nineteenth century to the present. She specializes in diasporic writers, transpacific studies, and the complex legacies of empire and colonization. Park’s book, Intercolonial Intimacies (2022), reexamines the geographically bound and politically charged definitions of Latinidad and Hispanidad by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin American writers, cultural critics, and diplomats. She has two ongoing research projects: the first on modern Latin American literature and diplomatic archives on the Pacific, and the second one on contemporary Asian Latin American writers. Park’s research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prior to joining Rice in 2024, Park taught at Wesleyan University and Ohio University.

Selected Publications

Book

• Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Literatura de viajes hispanofilipina” (co-authored with Matthew Nicdao), in Rocío Ortuño Casanova, Beatriz Álvarez-Tardío, Alex Gasquet, Jorge Mojarro and Emmanuelle Sinardet (eds.), Introducción a la literatura hispanofilipina (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 231-39.
• “Transpacific Tornaviajes: Towards a Filipino-Mexican Redefinition of Hispanidad,” in Rocío Ortuño-Casanova and Axel Gasquet (eds.), Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2024), 70-89.
• “‘Nadie llegó a saber nunca’: José Luis González and the Work of Mourning for the Unknown” (co-authored with Moisés Park). Romance Notes 62.3 (2022), 503-13.
• “Transpacific Intercoloniality: Rethinking the Globality of Philippine Literature in Spanish,” in Adolfo Campoy Cubillo and Benita, Entering the Global Hispanophone [Special issue], Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 20.1-2 (2019), 83-97.
• “Reframing ‘nuestra lengua’: Transpacific Perspectives on the Teaching of Spanish in the Philippines.” UNITAS Journal (Philippines) 92.1 (2019), 318-43.
• “La difusión global de la literatura filipina en español por una ruta transversal,” in Alexandra Ortiz Wallner and Susanne Klengel (eds.), Latinoamérica/Oriente desde el Sur en el temprano siglo XX [Special issue], Iberoromania 87 (2018), 36-49.
• “Chile’s Limited Passport into the Global Literary Market,” in Jesper Gulddal and Charlton Payne (eds.), Passports [Special issue], symplokē 25.1 (2018), 97-112.
• “Wagner and Schoenberg in the New World: The Legacy of German Musical Romanticism in Los pasos perdidos.” Hispanic Review 85.3 (2017), 271-93.
• “Archiving Diaspora in Daína Chaviano’s Mainstream Fantasy,” in Ignacio López-Calvo (ed.), Critical Insights: Contemporary Latin American Fiction (Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2017), 94-109.
• “Severo Sarduy a varias voces: análisis musical de ‘La playa’ y ‘Relato.’” Hispanófila 175 (2015), 273-87.
• “Asian Latino Conflict and Solidarity in Junot Díaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17.2 (2015).
• “Replaying Joyce: Echoes from Ulysses in Severo Sarduy’s Auditory Imagination,” in Brian L. Price, César A. Salgado and John Pedro Schwartz (eds.), TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 155-77.
• “El hechizo de las letras: el lenguaje poético y el ‘pensamiento asiático’ de Octavio Paz,” in Roberto Cantú (ed.), The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 90-105.
• “Jesús Balmori, la radio y la crítica al jazz en los años 30.” Revista Filipina 2.1 (2014).
• “José García Villa’s Silent Tongue Tie: Hispanic Resonances in Filipino American Literature.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 3.1 (2013), 123-40.