Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of World Languages and Literatures
Spanish Master's Program Advisor

Email

Preferred: cheyla.samuelson@sjsu.edu

Office Hours

Office Hours: Wednesday 11-12pm (in person, Clark Hall 429) / Thursday 10am-11am (Zoom)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic Languages and Literature
University Of California, Santa Barbara, 2011

Bio

Cheyla Samuelson is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at San José State University in San José, California, where she teaches Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on Contemporary Mexican literature.

Her research interests include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, representations of violence in recent literature from Mexico, transnational literature and literary translation. Her teaching pedagogy includes an emphasis on bringing writers from Mexico to engage with students in meaningful public facing events, including student led original translations of contemporary writers’ work. Her translations include an essay by Cristina Rivera Garza published with Literal: Latin American Voices, poems by Balam Rodrigo in Anuario de Poesía de San Deigo: Frontera  / San Diego Poetry Annual: Border and Oír ese río. Antología poética de los cinco continentes and, with co-translator Ilana Luna, poems by Rivera Garza in Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Harper’s Magazine, poetry.org and Words without Borders. With Ilana Luna, she is at work on the translation of two collections of poetry by Rivera Garza.