Rate My Professor Juan Godoy Peñas

Juan Godoy Peñas is an Associate Professor Educator in Spanish within the Linguistics domain at the University of Cincinnati's Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures. His academic background includes a Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica from the University of Málaga, a Máster in Spanish Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid, and double Ph.D. degrees from Florida International University and the Complutense University of Madrid. Throughout his career, he has held significant appointments such as Director of RALL Undergraduate Studies, Coordinator of Placement for Spanish, Coordinator of the Summer Spanish Local Immersion Program, Co-Director of the Study Abroad Program in Querétaro, Mexico, and Co-Director of the CEDAR Language Resource Center. Previously, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at Harvard University and as a Visiting Instructor at Qingdao University in China.

Godoy Peñas's research focuses on Spanish peninsular literature, particularly the second generation of writers exiled after the Spanish Civil War, exploring themes of memory, trauma, identity, and hybrid autobiographical genres. He is editing the book Memoria, identidad y literatura del yo: narrativas de la segunda generación de escritores exiliados por la Guerra Civil española. Key publications include “La ‘Otra’ segunda generación de escritores exiliados tras la Guerra Civil española: más allá de México” (Hispanófila, 2020), “Niños de la guerra en México: la desterritorialización como consecuencia del exilio a través de Carlos Blanco Aguinaga y Angelina Muñiz-Huberman” (Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2019), “Angelina Muñiz-Huberman: enamorada del exilio” (Laberintos, 2020), and a chapter “Irony, suicide and social criticism in Margarita Nelken's short novel: 'Mi suicidio' (1924)” in I Want to Die (Springer, 2020). He received the Pablo Ruiz Orozco and Miguel Quesada scholarship in 2016 for his project on exiled women in the Cuban press. In applied linguistics, he researches second language teaching methodologies, incorporating technology like VR classrooms and hybrid formats, learner identity, and diversity, including Afro-Hispanic elements. He organized workshops such as “Mapping the Minorities in Spanish as Second Language Acquisition” with Harvard's Observatory Cervantes and presented “Fostering Diversity in the Spanish Language Classroom” for the Instituto Cervantes in New York. His contributions enhance inclusive language education and literary scholarship on exile.