Academic Portfolio

Luis Ernesto
Prieto Amaro

PhD Student · Hispanic-American and Film & Media Studies

Yale University  ·  Expected 2030

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Luis Ernesto Prieto Amaro

Scholarly Focus

Research Interests

Caribbean Studies Hispanic-American Literature Film and Media Studies Postcolonial Studies

Academic Training

Education

2024 – 2030 (Expected)
PhD, Hispanic-American and Film and Media Studies
Yale University
2022 – 2024
MA, Hispanic-American Studies
University of Connecticut
2018 – 2020
BA, Writing, Literature, and Publishing
Emerson College
2016 – 2018
AA, English Language and Education
Miami Dade College

Pedagogy

Teaching Experience

2022 – 2024
Spanish Instructor
University of Connecticut
2020 – 2022
English Teacher
Keys Gates Charter High School

Scholarly Contributions

Conference Presentations

"Archives of (Ins)urgency: Oral History and Digital Ephemera in Cuba"
Panel: Poetics, Visual Aesthetics, and Technology · The Caribbean Digital XII
Fall 2025
"Mariel Magazine: Ideología, traducción y audiencia"
Panel: Translating Revolution and the Cold War in Magazines · Latin American Studies Association
Spring 2025
"Historiopoetics of Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork"
El Instituto Graduate Research Forum · University of Connecticut
Spring 2025
"La écfrasis y la espuma: La poesía modernista de Juana Borrero"
Panel: Estudos de Literatura con focos específicos · Congresso Internacional de Linguagem, Literatura e Discurso · Universidade Federal do Maranhão
Fall 2024
"Politics of Interdependency and Decolonial Feminism in Puerto Rico"
Panel: Decolonial Practices · Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference · Brown University
Spring 2023

Scholarship

Publications

Book Reviews
"Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" Forthcoming
Philosophy and Global Affairs
"Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico" 2025
Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 71.2, 2025, pp. 208–11 · doi:10.1080/00086495.2025.2515716
"Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time"
Chasqui: Revista de Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericana e Indígena, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vol. 52.1 , 2023
Literary Essays
"¿Qué es un dictador?"
El Estornudo, 2024
"A mí no me gusta la política pero"
El Estornudo, 2023
"Non-English Essay"
El Estornudo, 2023
"Creo en las vueltas que da la vida"
El Estornudo, 2021
Translations
"The Right of Exit and its Temporal Limits: A Critique of Unqualified Approaches" by Bernardo Cantú
Philosophy and Global Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 187–211 · doi:10.5840/pga20254177
"What to do if Don Quixote decides not to lunge at the windmills?" by Omar Pérez
The Yale Journal of Literary Translation, Spring 2025
Interviews
"Conversación con Andrea Lagos y Luis Ernesto Prieto Amaro" — Collaboreishion: A Series
Ay Ombe Theatre, 2025 · ISBN 978-1-882161-32-4
"Llegó el dulce. Ay Ombe Theatre y Performance Autology. Cuido y comunidad"
Candela Review: afro-trans-queer-feminista-descolonial

Recognition

Fellowships & Awards

2025–27 Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship · Yale University
2025–27 Solidarity Fellowship · Diaspora Solidarities Lab, Johns Hopkins University
2024–27 Dean's Emerging Scholar Fellowship · Yale University
2021 New Teacher of the Year · Keys Gates Charter High School
2018–20 Miami Dade College Scholarship · Emerson College
2018 All-Florida Academic Team · Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
2018 Fred Shaw Poetry Award · Miami Dade College
2018 Global Citizenship Alliance · Salzburg Global Seminar
2018 Gold Medal · Columbia Scholastic Press Association
2017 Best Film Review · Florida College System Publications Association
2017 English Composition Award · Miami Dade College
2016–18 Honors College Fellowship · Miami Dade College

Community & Profession

Service & Leadership

Academic Service

Guest Lecturer, "Borderlands and Latinx Science Fiction: Postcolonial Poethics in Sleep Dealer"

Michigan State University

Spr. 2026

Organizer, Latinx Arts and Activism Working Group

Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University

2025–26

Coordinator, Revista Mariel. Segunda Época (1986–1987)

Archivo Rialta

Fall 2025

Presenter, "Estamos Presentes: Honoring Latine Heritage at the Beinecke"

Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University

Fall 2025

Organizer, "Harvest of Empire" Colloquium

CSRITM, Yale University

Summer 2025

Moderator, Iberian Nights Colloquium — "Sovereignty and Extortion"

Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

Fall 2024

Moderator, "Conversation with Josefina Báez"

University of Connecticut

Fall 2023

Organizer, "Live Arts Performance Exhibition"

Language Graduate Students Association, UConn

Fall 2022

Organizer, "Essay Extravaganza: Transfer Essay and Personal Statement"

Miami Dade Honors College

Fall 2020

English Tutor

826 Boston

2019

Copyeditor, The Berkeley Beacon

Emerson College

Fall 2019

Editor & Translator, Raíz Latinoamericana

Emerson College

2018–19
Leadership

Organizer, Unite Here Local 33

Yale University

2025–

Financial Secretary, Graduate Employee and Postdoc Union

University of Connecticut

2023–24

Chess Club Founder

Keys Gates Charter High School

2021

Vice-President, Student Government Association

Miami Dade College

2017–18

Chief Editor, Urbana Literary & Arts

Miami Dade College

2017–18

Professional Experience

Other Experience

Summer 2025
Workshop Instructor
Yale Pathways to Arts and Humanities
Spring 2023
Research Assistant
El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies · University of Connecticut
2018 – 2020
Library Assistant
Iwasaki Library · Emerson College
Summer 2019
Activities Leader
Education First · Miami Beach

Communication

Languages

Spanish
Full Proficiency
English
Full Proficiency
French
Basic Reading
Portuguese
Basic Reading