H. Manuel Acevedo-Reyes
New Cabell Hall 458
Office Hours: Mon 2:00-3:00pm & by appt
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia (expected 2026)
M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia (2022)
M.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Indiana University (2020)
M.A. in Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction, Stockton University (2019)
B.A. in Teacher Education, Stockton University (2016)
B.A. in Spanish, Stockton University (2016)
A.A. in Secondary Education, Atlantic Cape Community College (2014)
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journals
2025 “Dominican Tígueres and Cuir Ecologies in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015).” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall 2025. DOI: 10.1093/isle/isaf025.
Translations
2025 Translation of Bigelow, Allison. “Knowledge in Transition: Rethinking the Science of Sameness in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s New Spain.” Latin American Literature in Transition: Pre-1492-1800, edited by Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and Amber Brian, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 315-329. (Forthcoming)
2021 Translation of Machuca Rose, Malú. “Giuseppe Campuzano’s Afterlife: Toward a Travesti Methodology for Critique, Care, and Radical Resistance.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, pp. 239-253. Published in TSQ*Now, “La vida después de la muerte de Giuseppe Campuzano: Hacía una metodología travesti para la crítica, cuidado y resistencia radical”.
2021 Translated Galarte, Francisco. “General Editor’s Introduction.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, pp. 239-253. Published in TSQ*Now, “Introducción del editor general”.
Book Reviews
2021 Review of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan Press, 2020. In Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, V. 17, I. 1, 2021. DOI: 10.33596/anth.451
CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS
2026 “Brown Bodies, White Pleasure: Racial Fantasies in the Latino Fan Club Films .” Modern Language Association. Panel: Race and Pornographic Genres. Toronto, Canada. January. (upcoming)
2025 “‘I Love Their Macho Behavior’: Race and Desire in the Photographs of the Latino Fan Club.” American Studies Association. Panel: Racialized Sexuality in Latinx Culture and Politics. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November. (Upcoming)
2025 “‘Macho Behavior’: Blatino Performance and the Emergence of Thug Pornography (1970-2000).” Latin American Studies Association. Panel: Cuerpes en Vaivén. San Francisco, California. May 24th.
2025 “Masculinity and Puerto Rican Nationalism in René Marqués’ La Mirada (1976).” Northeast Modern Language Association. Panel: Masculinity and National Belonging in the Américas. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 8th.
2024 "Disidentificatory Radical Cuir Politics of the Young Lords.” Puerto Rican Studies Association. Santa Cruz, California: University of California. August 25th.
2024 “Santería as a Queer Ecological Praxis in Lydia Cabrera’s El monte (1954).” Environmental Humanities Symposium, Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. April 25th.
2024 “Patos boricuas: Cuir Masculinities and la gran familia puertorriqueña.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Panel: Masculinities and Alternative Sexualities in Latin American Literature II. Boston, Massachusetts. March 8th.
2023 “Cuir Ecological Futures in La mucama de Omicunlé (2015).” Environmental Humanities Symposium. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. March 30th.
2023 “Literature and the Environment in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.” Diálogos XX. Panel: Environment and Literature. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University. February 25th.
2021 “Implementing Peer Review to Correct Common Grammar Errors in a Second-Language Context.” Institute of World Languages Roundtable. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. November 11th.
2018 “Implementing Incentive-Based Classroom Management Plans to Increase Engagement in Urban World Language Classroom.” Graduate Research Symposium. Galloway, New Jersey: Stockton University. April 25th.
RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS
2023-2024 All-University Graduate Student Teaching Award, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs.
2022-2023 UVA Career Development recognition for student impact.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Virginia
Department of American Studies
U.S. Latinx Literature and Visual Culture (Spring 2024)
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Contemporary Latin American Voices (2024-2025)
Texts and Interpretation: Feminist and Queer Caribbean Literature (Fall 2023)
Grammar and Composition I (2022-2023)
Intermediate Spanish I (2021-2022, Summer 2025 [online, co-taught])
Elementary Spanish (Summer 2024 [online, co-taught])
Summer Language Institute
Introduction to Hispanic Cultures (2022 and 2023).
Indiana University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Second-Year Spanish II (Spring 2020 [hybrid])
Second-Year Spanish (Fall 2019)
Intensive First-Year Spanish (2018-2019)
Summer Spanish Language Immersion Camp (2019).
SPEAK! Language Center
Spanish for Medical Professionals (Spring 2023, Summer 2023, and 2024-2025).
Spanish for Educators (Spring 2022 and Summer 2022).
One-on-One Tutoring (2022-2025)
PROFESSIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
2023-2024 Graduate Committee, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia.
2023-2024 Graduate Student Representative, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia.
2021-2023 Environmental Humanities Website Manager, created and managed a new website for the Environmental Humanities Working Group at the University of Virginia.
2021-2023 Environmental Humanities Graduate Coordinator, University of Virginia.
2021-2022 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Council Member, Spanish Department Graduate Student Representative, University of Virginia.
2018-2020 Departmental Spanish Tutor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.
2019 Resident Coordinator, Spanish Language Immersion Camp, Indiana University.
2015-2016 Departmental Spanish Tutor, School of Arts and Humanities, Stockton University.