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Once you start learning a new language, grammar, and way of understanding the world, all of a sudden you\u2019re translating not just language but culture. That\u2019s why I\u2019m passionate about teaching a foreign language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Paden is a professor of Spanish, but you might find him falling naturally into German or Italian while chatting with a colleague in a neighboring office. Although he claims it\u2019s been \u201cmuch too long\u201d since he studied German for him to carry on a fluent conversation, there is a fluency in his ability to cross cultural bounds. Growing up in Italy, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S., that\u2019s no surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere exists no divide between language and culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his classes, Paden strives to emphasize the \u201ccomplexity of Latin America,\u201d which he believes is often overlooked. If students understand the variable forces and influences on the region as well as the multiple identities that have shaped its history, their grasp of the language will also improve. This in turn increases the students\u2019 awareness of Latin American values, as well as their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These lessons can be simple. For example, Paden wants students to know that \u201cthe first place that received the name America<\/em> was actually South America.\u201d That revelation can, in some small way, alter a student\u2019s world view. Understanding the role the United States has taken in Latin American politics or the various social justice issues its communities face helps students gain a more nuanced perspective on this part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But just as studying culture deepens students\u2019 understanding of language, a liberal arts education gives students a richer academic experience that prepares them to better engage the world, not just those within their field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA liberal arts education, much like the study of a foreign language, moves students beyond the theories and ideas they are accustomed to. Learning a language broadens your mind. It\u2019s easy to be certain about the way the world works when you have one language and one community,\u201d Paden said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paden came to Transylvania because he values the liberal arts approach. \u201cBeing able to not only coexist but to relate, understand, and engage in dialogue with people from a variety of backgrounds and professions is important for human society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to know more about Transylvania’s Spanish<\/a> or Latin American and Caribbean studies<\/a> program?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., Emory University, 2004
M.A., University of Memphis, 1998
B.A., Harding University, 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Colonial Latin American Culture
Introduction to Colonial Latin American Civilization
Latin America as Essay
Latin American Utopian Thought
Literature of the Mexican Revolution
Representing Native America: Indios in Latin American Literature
The Poet and the World: History, Language, and Politics in Neruda’s Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Latin American poetry
Colonial Latin American literature
The Latin American essay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A prolific poet, Paden published his first chapbook of poetry, Broken Tulips<\/em>, in 2013. He has also published work in Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine<\/em>, Hinchas de Poes\u00eda!<\/em>, The Adirondack Review<\/em>, Artichoke Haircut<\/em>, Abuelas hispanas desde la memoria y el recuerdo<\/em> (an anthology about Hispanic grandmothers), and So Spoke the Earth<\/em> (an anthology about Haiti).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other journals and anthologies that have published his work include The Atlanta Review<\/em>, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review<\/em>, The Tidal Basin Review<\/em>, The Cortland Review<\/em>, The New Mexico Poetry Review<\/em>, Sin Fronteras\/Writers Without Borders<\/em>, The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art and Literature<\/em>, The Louisville Review<\/em>, Beloit Poetry Journal<\/em>, Pluck! the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture<\/em>, Naugatuck River Review<\/em>, Christianity & Literature<\/em>, Limestone, <\/em>and Duende<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009 Paden was guest editor for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review<\/em> titled \u201cReflections on Empire: Latin American Depictions of Colonization in Literature and Cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a member of the Affrilachian Poets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Reading Colonial Ruins in Carmen Boullosa’s Poetry” in Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries, Eds. Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar, University of Arizona Press, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broken Tulips, ed. Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Accents Publishing, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEl amor ardiente y militante en el Oriental planeta evang\u00e9lico de Carlos de Sig\u00fcenza y G\u00f3ngora.\u201d Escritura, poder e imaginaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica en la Compa\u00f1\u00eda de Jes\u00fas (siglos XVI-XVIII). Eds. Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and Teodoro Hampe-Martinez. Barcelona:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLetters to the Metropole: The Rhetoric of Distance in Sor Juana\u2019s Poetry,\u201d Modernity\u2019s Modernism, spec. iss. Review of International American Studies. 4.2-3 (Fall 2009\u2013Winter 2010): 31-35<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHunger\u2019s Brides: Vida, Obra e Imagen de Sor Juana.\u201d Cuadernos de M\u00fasica, Artes Visuales Y Artes Esc\u00e9nicas. 4.1-2 (October 2008\u2013September 2009): 82-110<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEyes Wide Shut: Sor Juana\u2019s Paradoxical Hermeneutics of Faith.\u201d Cal\u00edope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.\u201d 14.1 (2008): 95-113<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Iguana and the Barrel of Mud: Memory, Natural History, and Hermeneutics in Oviedo\u2019s Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias.\u201d Colonial Latin American Review. Fall 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDes-velando a la Reina Mab: Shakespeare como fuente imag(e)nativa y est\u00e9tica para Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo.\u201d Visi\u00f3n de la narrativa hisp\u00e1nica. Eds. Juan Cruz Mendiz\u00e1bal, Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Jim\u00e9nez. 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