Carolina Caballero
Zemurray-Stone Senior Professor of Practice - Latin American Studies/Spanish & Portuguese
- Caribbean
Biography
At Tulane University since 2008, I. Carolina Caballero now holds a joint appointment at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese since January of 2020. She specializes in 20th and 21st century texts of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, particularly in the genre of theater and performance. She teaches courses in English and Spanish in literary, cultural, and ethnic studies based in Latin and Latinx America and well as language courses. She is currently serving as interim advisor for the undergraduate major and minor in Latin American Studies and works to promote and advance the undergraduate program through curriculum development, activities, and networking and travel opportunities for students. As Associate Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute since 2012, she also organizes and plans events, hosts speakers, and collaborate on conferences on campus that highlight the region, and promotes travel and research among faculty and graduate students. She also co-directs and teaches on CCSI’s summer abroad programs for undergraduates in Cuba and Panamá.
Courses
Research
Contemporary Latin American literature, Cultural Studies, Cuba
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Romance Languages, 2004
- M.A., University of North Carolina, Romance Languages, 1997
- B.A., Wofford College, History and Spanish, 1994
Academic Experience
- Senior Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2014-
- Associate Director, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute 2012-
- Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2008-
- Assistant Professor, Regis University, 2005-2008
- Instructor, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2004-2005
- Lecturer, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2003-2004
- Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina, 1994-2002
Distinctions
- Simón Rodríguez Award for Best Undergraduate Teaching, 2013
- NEH Grant, 2006
- University of Florida Research Grant in Latin American Studies, 2005
- FLAS Fellowship, 2001-2002
Languages
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Overseas Experience
- Cuba
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Spain
Selected Publications
- 2021. Open Channels: The Journey Begins/Canales Abiertos: La jornada comienza” by Mat Schwarzman, Fátima Patterson and I. Carolina Caballero on Howlround.com. 29 July 2021
- 2016. “Prólogo” to the anthology Teatro cubano actual. Dramaturgia escrita en los Estados Unidos (II) published by Editorial Tablas in Havana, Cuba. September 2016.
- 2016. “Amigos and Miami Post-Mariel: Carolina Caballero Talks to Director Iván Acosta”, appeared in a dossier “Myths of Mariel in the webzine Cuba Counterpoints, August 2016 https://cubacounterpoints.com/archives/3336.html
- 2015. “From Camagüey’s Carnival”, published in the section Dispatches in the webzine Cuba Counterpoints, July 2015 https://www.cubacounterpoints.com/archives/1762.html
- 2014.“Una diaspora reimaginada por Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas en Blind Mouth Singing and Bird in the Hand” in La gaceta de Cuba. Vol. 5 (2014) 26-29.
- 2013.“Vidas cubanas en el teatro americano” in Tablas: Revista Cubana de las Artes Escénicas. Vol. CIII (2013). 65-69.
- 2013. “Madres, tiranas y rebeldes: los personajes femeninos en la obra teatral de Pedro R. Monge Rafuls.” Pp. 112-123 in Celebrando a Virgilio Piñera. Miami: Pro Teatro Cubano.
- 2012. “Aquí, allá, ahora: Un ciclo de lecturas necesarias.” Tablas: Revista Cubana de las Artes Escénicas Vol. XCVIII: 100-102.
- 2009. “Una cubana in the Borderlands in La hija de la Llorona by Teresa Dovalpage.” Latin American Theatre Review, Fall: 27-39.
