Faculty Profile
Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (2017)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room 112
Bio
I was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and have lived and studied in New York, Vermont, Rio de Janeiro, and Madrid. These crossings inform and drive my comparative and cross-disciplinary approach to teaching and research questions about the cultural productions of Iberia, Latin America, and the Latinx diaspora. In my classes, we engage close reading strategies and queer and feminist methodologies to unpack literary and audiovisual texts. As for scholarship, I focus on early modern life writing, difference and identity, subjectivity, vigilance, and the Inquisition. I am currently working on a project tentatively titled, “The Auto/Biographical Imperative," which examines 16th- and 17th-century I/Eye-texts, surveillance, and empire.
Education
- B.A., Middlebury College, 2007
- Ph.D., New York University, 2018
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
This course is a continuation of Spanish 102. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 102 or placement by department. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
LALC 300 Culture War Dramas
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02, THDA 302-01 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
WGSS 301 Culture War Dramas
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01, SPAN 380-02 and THDA 302-01. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
THDA 302 Culture War Dramas
Cross-listed with LALC, 300-01, SPAN 380-02 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
SPAN 380 Culture War Dramas
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01, THDA 302-01 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*