Jeremy Larochelle

Jeremy Larochelle is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Mary Washington. He holds a B.A. in Spanish from the College of William and Mary and an M.A./Ph.D. in Spanish from Rutgers University, specializing in contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latina/o literature with ecological intersections.

His research examines environmental narratives in Latin American cultural production, particularly focusing on:

• Amazonian literary expressions and ecological consciousness
• Urban environmental crises in Mexican literature
• Revolutionary ecologies in Central American poetry
• Indigenous environmental knowledge systems

Fieldwork includes ethnographic research in Peruvian Amazon communities and mentorship of undergraduate field researchers.

Publications consistently address ecological vulnerability, with recent works analyzing Nicaraguan revolutionary ecologies (2019), Amazonian poetic responses to environmental loss (2016), and curated Amazonian poetry anthologies (2014).

As Faculty Fellow in Academic Services, he advises students on academic pathways. He leads sustainability initiatives as:

• Faculty Sponsor for the UMW Outdoor Club
• Member of the President’s Council on Sustainability

His First-Year Seminar integrates environmental literature with experiential learning through local field excursions.