Biography
Andy L. Barrientos-Gómez holds a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He teaches a wide range of courses, from Spanish as a second language and Spanish as a heritage language to Latin American literature, culture, and film, as well as Montserrat courses for first-year students. He brings a student-centered philosophy to the classroom, weaving community-based learning pedagogy into his courses to help students engage with course material in meaningful and real-world contexts, including with the greater Latin American community in Worcester.
His research examines how violence manifests in sexual encounters and labor exploitation across Brazilian and Mexican literature and visual culture. Drawing from critical theory, cultural studies, and economic frameworks, his work explores the ways in which bodies, labor, and power are represented and contested in Brazilian and Mexican cultural production. His current work turns to the intersections of sound studies and contemporary Latin American literature, investigating how sonic elements such as music, noise, echoes, and silence shape narrative form, structure meaning, and generate affective experience in literary and cultural texts.
Publications
- "Desechos del Capitalismo: Peonaje, Paisaje y Extractivismo en 7 Prisoneiros" Cuadernos del CILHA
- "Enclaves of Entrapment: Capitalism's Waste in Maquilapolis and 7 Prisoneiros" Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Latin American Film