Guillermo Pupo Pernet

Guillermo Pupo Pernet serves as Visiting Instructor of Spanish at Emory University, bringing over a decade of multilingual teaching experience in Spanish, French, and English across Colombian and U.S. institutions. Currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas, he holds advanced degrees in Hispanic Literature and Online Education.

His educational background includes:

• MA in Hispanic Literature, University of Arkansas, 2018
• MA in Online Education, UNAD Florida, 2014
• BA in Foreign Language Teaching, Universidad del Atlántico, 2012

Pupo Pernet specializes in colonial knowledge systems through text-paratext analysis of early modern travel accounts, with emphasis on race construction, cartographic representation, and visual culture in Latin American and Atlantic contexts. His interdisciplinary methodology bridges literary studies, visual anthropology, and critical race theory to examine marginalized perspectives in colonial archives.

His scholarly output reveals consistent focus on race materialization in 18th-century visual production, particularly through Venezuelan and Caribbean case studies involving indigenous weapons, slave trade routes, and privateering networks. This trajectory demonstrates increasing engagement with material culture approaches to decolonial knowledge production.

His scientific recognition includes:

• SEC Emerging Scholars Fellowship
• NEH Summer Institute Fellowship
• Descartes Center Junior Fellowship for Dutch Paleography
• Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant

While no formal advising relationships are documented, his extensive conference participation—including presentations at Renaissance Society of America and Penn State University events—demonstrates active scholarly collaboration within colonial studies networks. His grant acquisitions reflect strong institutional support for archival research in early modern race studies.