Félix Burgos
Assistant Professor of Spanish
WZ 267
765-973-8638
fburgos@iu.edu
Education
- PhD, Language, Literacy, and Culture – Latin American Studies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, July 2018
- Dissertation: "Memory and Memorialization Amidst the Colombian Armed Conflict"
- MA, Intercultural Communication, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2010
- BA, Philology and Languages, English Teaching, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2008
Teaching Interests
- Spanish as a second language
- Latin American culture and society
- Intercultural communication
Current Scholarly Interests
- Computer-mediated communication in language learning
- Memory and reconciliation processes in Latin America
- Rhetoric and Composition (Electracy)
Recent Publications
- Burgos, Felix. "A Laboratory of Memory: An Experiment with Difficult Knowledge in a Spanish Civilization Class" in Swamped: Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches for New Faculty edited by Justin Carroll (Forthcoming. 2024)
- Cuesta Moreno, Oscar Julián, et al., "Dimensión Pedagógica de los Lugares de Memoria: Semiosis Nemotécnica, Visita presencial y Extensión Virtual." Revista Educación, vol. 46, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v46i1.44708 (Co-authored)
- Wisniewski, K. A., and Felix Burgos. "Composition, Consult, Curation: Designing a Textshop for Experimental Humanities," Exquisite Corpse: Art-Based Writing Practices in the Academy, Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, February, 2019.
- Burgos, Felix. "Transmuting Monuments." Textshop Experiments, 3, (Winter, 2016): n: pag. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop02/transmuting-monuments
- Burgos, Felix. "Uncovering the Campus: Memory, Space and Trauma." Hyperrhiz, 12, Special Issue: Mapping Culture Multimodally (Summer, 2015): n. pag. http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/augmented-maps/3-burgos.html
Presentations
- "Attitudes toward cultural and language proficiency growth in synchronous video interactions in Spanish classes" HSS Faculty Forum, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IU East, March 30, 2023
- "Affective reactions in three virtual exhibitions of the Colombian Armed Conflict" LASA 2022 Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Virtual, United States, May 8, 2022
- "Language and Cultural Immersion on Short-Term, Faculty-Led Study Abroad: Puerto Rico" ACTFL 2020 Virtual Congress, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Virtual, USA, November 20, 2020.
Awards and Recognitions
- Horizon Teaching Award, Indiana University East, 2023
- Dr. Martin Luther King Building Bridges Award, 2023
- Experiential Learning Award, HSS, Indiana University East, 2022