Ginett Pineda

Ginett Pineda is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish at Penn State University, Fayette, The Eberly Campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and an Indigenous Studies Certificate from The University of Kansas. Her current research interests focus on Andean Culture, Quechua language, and indigenous epistemologies on the “Mother Earth,” particularly Andeans’ affective relationship to native landscapes and nature. Her work on eco-spirituality and discourses on nature has been published in Palabras Propias, English Studies in Latin America: A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism, El Futuro del Pasado, among others, and she is presently working on a project tentatively entitled “An ecocritical look at the monster in ‘El lagarto’ by José María Arguedas.” Her teaching comprises Spanish language and culture courses, as well as Latin American history classes.