Education

PhD, University of Texas, Austin

Research and Teaching

• Latin American Literature and Culture
• Asian Diasporas in Latin America
• Transpacific Studies
• Philippine literature in Spanish and English

Recent and Future Courses:

• SPAN 344 Mapping Latin American Culture
• SPAN 335 Asian Latin(x) American Encounters
• SPAN 402 The City in Latin America

Paula Park’s research and teaching interests are Latin American, US Latinx, and Hispanophone and Anglophone Philippine literature and cultural productions from the nineteenth century to the present. She specializes in diasporic writers, transpacific studies, and the complex legacies of empire and colonization. Park’s book, Intercolonial Intimacies (2022), reexamines the geographically bound and politically charged definitions of Latinidad and Hispanidad by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin American writers, cultural critics, and diplomats. She has two ongoing research projects: the first on modern Latin American literature and diplomatic archives on the Pacific and the second one on contemporary Asian Latin American writers. Park’s research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prior to joining Rice in 2024, Park taught at Wesleyan University and Ohio University.

Selected publications

1. Book 

• Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

2. Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

• “Literatura de viajes hispanofilipina” (co-authored with Matthew Nicdao), in Rocío Ortuño Casanova, Beatriz Álvarez-Tardío, Alex Gasquet, Jorge Mojarro and Emmanuelle Sinardet (eds.), Introducción a la literatura hispanofilipina (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 231-39.
• “Transpacific Tornaviajes: Towards a Filipino-Mexican Redefinition of Hispanidad,” in Rocío Ortuño-Casanova and Axel Gasquet (eds.), Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2024), 70-89.
• “‘Nadie llegó a saber nunca’: José Luis González and the Work of Mourning for the Unknown” (co-authored with Moisés Park). Romance Notes 62.3 (2022), 503-13.
• “Transpacific Intercoloniality: Rethinking the Globality of Philippine Literature in Spanish,” in Adolfo Campoy Cubillo and Benita, Entering the Global Hispanophone [Special issue], Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 20.1-2 (2019), 83-97.
• “Reframing ‘nuestra lengua’: Transpacific Perspectives on the Teaching of Spanish in the Philippines.” UNITAS Journal (Philippines) 92.1 (2019), 318-43.