Dept Académico: English - Universidad de Puerto Rico Cayey

Dept Académico: English - Universidad de Puerto Rico Cayey
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UPR CAYEY
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Asesoría Estudiantes y Empleados
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Seguridad en el Campus
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Oferta Académica
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CAEP 2025
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CAEP 2023
CAEP 2022
CAEP 2021
Programa de Estudios de Honor
Química
Centro Interdisciplinario de Desarrollo Estudiantil (CEDE)
Oficina de Servicios a Estudiantes con Impedimentos
DECEP
Catálogo DECEP 2017 -2018
FORMULARIO DE MATRÍCULA ONLINE
SOLICITUD DE ADMISIÓN PROGRAMA DE ESTUDIANTES TALENTOSOS ONLINE
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ESTUDIANTES
Decanato de Asuntos Estudiantiles
Asistencia Económica
Servicios Médicos
Programa Atlético
Atletas Destacados 2024 – 2025
Organizaciones Estudiantiles
Intercambio y Estudios Internacionales
Actividades Sociales y Culturales
Consejo General de Estudiantes
CAE – Centro de Apoyo al Estudiante
Calendario Académico
INVESTIGACIÓN
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Centro de Información Censal
CITI Program
Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias
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Instancias de Moodle
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Reservación de Salas de Informática
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Solicitud de Servicios Técnicos
¡DONA HOY!
Who are we?
Mission, Goals and Objetives
Academic Programs
Academic Counseling
Curriculum Offerings
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Students
Academic Advising
The current Bachelor of Arts in English offered at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey promotes the study of English as a way to prepare students for a variety of professional careers in and out of the island. The BA in English is characterized by its flexibility and diversity of disciplines, thus responding to significant changes in the discipline since the department’s founding in 1969. As stated in the mission, the program is committed to diversity and to keeping a strong curriculum that encourages current approaches, including interdisciplinary methods. The department’s faculty, our most precious resource, educated at prestigious institutions, have been fully committed to the continuous assessment and revamping of our program with particular emphasis on current issues regarding language and culture.
The BA in English is concerned with the study of language, literature, and culture. Its domain is multicultural and includes all the varieties of English and the cultural texts they may produce, ranging from the canonical literary such as Shakespeare to contemporary artistic expressions like music videos, plus the study of language from theoretical, sociological, and applied perspectives. The program is committed to diversity and to keeping a strong curriculum that encourages current approaches, including interdisciplinary methods. It aspires to graduate well-rounded, independent thinkers with a sense of social responsibility. It prepares graduates with strong communication, technological, and research skills and an ability to work critically with a wide range of texts—women and men who are prepared to enter graduate programs in their field and/or are employable in a variety of professions, including the teaching of English.
Students who pursue a BA in English have the flexibility to design a program of study that is based on their various career goals and is also engaged with their everyday lives as members of contemporary Puerto Rican society and the world community. The program looks forward to offer students a variety of emphases that reflect their diverse interests as well as current developments in the field of English studies, such as applied and theoretical linguistics and literature, women and gender studies, and/or studies of the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Goals of the Department
To support the Mission and Goals of the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, the Department of English has established the following as its main goals:
To offer excellent undergraduate education in the study of English language, literature, and culture;
To maintain a sound, efficient, and supportive administration of the Department;
To make the Department of English at Cayey a source of academic and cultural activity; and to promote student sense of social responsibility.
To promote student sense of social responsibility.
To fulfill these goals within the major, the Department will offer a bachelor’s program through which students will:
Become conversant in diverse and current areas of English studies.
b. Develop essential speaking, writing, critical, and analytical abilities for success in their field, their future professions, and their lives.
c. use the language and their learning both within and beyond the university classroom.
d. enhance their sense of social responsibility.
6-Year Course Rotation Schedule (2020-2027)
Minors in English
Academic Counseling (after 2017)
Link to English Courses
Link to Course List and Descriptions
Nellie Vázquez Rivera, PhD
Assistant Professor and Interim Chair in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. Her interests are in Caribbean masculinities and women/gender studies. She has developed the following courses for the English Department: Caribbean Women Writers, Women in Shakespearean Drama and Abuse and Exploitation in 18th and 19th Century British Literature. She is currently in the process of developing a course on Caribbean Masculinities. Dr. Vázquez has also offered workshops for English teachers of the Department of Education.
Office 224 MC – Department of English – Ext. 2181
E-mail address:
vazquez1@upr.edu
Education
PhD in the literature and languages of the English-speaking Caribbean with a major in Literature (UPR-RP)
Title of Dissertation: Jamaica Kincaid: (Un)Masking and Redefining Caribbean Masculinity
MA in English: Literature (UPR-RP)
Title of thesis: Disruptive Women in Shakespeare
BA English Arts –
Cum Laude
(UPR-Cayey)
Areas of Specialization
Literature: Drama, narrative and masculinity/gender studies
Courses Taught
INGL 4370 Seminar Modes and Genre: Abuse and Exploitation in 18
th
and 19
th
Century British Literature* (Special Topics)
INGL 4380 Seminar in Critical Theory
INGL 4195 Seminar in Feminism, Gender and Literature
INGL 4185 Seminar in Cultural Studies
INGL 3517 Women in Shakespearean Drama* (Special Topics)
INGL 3335 Young Adult Literature
INGL 3385 Mystery Fiction as Genre
INGL 3360 Video, Culture and Literature
INGL 3319 Caribbean Women Writers*
INGL 3246 Modern Literature By and About Women
INGL 3231 Advanced Composition I
INGL 3229 The Caribbean Experience
INGL 3221-3222 Introduction to Literature
INGL 3191 Conversational English
INGL 3103-3104 Intermediate English
INGL 3101-3102 Basic English
INGL 3001-3002 British Literature
INGL 0002 Remedial English
*Indicates courses developed by Nellie Vázquez
Publications
“Women and Gender: Expanding and Enriching the English Arts Curriculum.” “37 Years of Women and Gender Based Curriculum at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey: Teaching and Embracing True Gender Equity.” Actas del XI Coloquio Nacional Sobre Las Mujeres; Feminismos, Descolonialidad y Otras Intersecciones. University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, P.R. 2019.
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Sally J. Delgado, PhD
Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. She earned her PhD in Literature and Languages of the English-speaking Caribbean and continues to explore research interests in the contact languages and dialectology of the Atlantic and Caribbean regions. She has authored and edited several books and published various peer-reviewed articles on the contact languages of the Caribbean and their associated representations and intersections with history, educational policy and social parameters. She is also active in local and international conferences to disseminate her research findings.
Office 223 MC – Ext. 2504
E-mail address:
delgado@upr.edu
Education
PhD in the literature and languages of the English-speaking Caribbean with a major in Linguistics (UPR-RP)
Title of Dissertation: Ship English: Characteristic features of sailors’ speech in the early colonial Caribbean.
MA in English: Linguistics (UPR-RP)
Title of thesis: Captives, convicts, and crew: Exploring the influence of stigmatized varieties of English in the 17th century Caribbean.
Advanced Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Major in English, Minor in Drama (University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus, United Kingdom)
BA in English Literature and Drama with a Foundation Year in Fine Art (Liverpool University, United Kingdom)
Areas of Specialization (Discipline and Sub-discipline)
Linguistics: dialectology of the English-speaking world, pidgins and creoles languages, morphology and syntax, English as a Lingua Franca
Courses Taught
INGL 3022 Oral and Written English: Theory and Practice
INGL 3103-3104 Intermediate English, Part I /Part II
INGL 3201-3202 Grammar, Composition and Reading I /Part II
INGL 3203 Scientific Reading
INGL 3204 Scientific Writing
INGL 3205 Syntax of English Structural Grammar
INGL 3265 English Across Cultures
INGL 4011 Phonetics of the English Language
INGL 4210 Discourse and Grammar
INGL 4335 Second Language Acquisition
INTD 3207 In the Digital Age: Work and Ethics of the Scientific Writer
INTD 4116 Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Students
Publications
kjold, J. &
Delgado, S. J.
(2025). Ecopedagogical approaches to language learning and cultivating eco-conscious learners.
11th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’25)
. Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. 573-583.
Delgado, S, J., Caraballo Quiles, V. N., Alicea Muñoz, J. I. & Guadelupe Acevedo, A. P. (2024). Proyecto para documentar el inglés puertorriqueño.
FORUM, Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo,
(30), 125-141.
Delgado, S. J. (2024). Language contact in Puerto Rico: Documenting an emerging variety of English. In Angela Bartens & Peter Slomanson (eds.),
New research on circum-Caribbean creoles and language contact
, 177–211. Language Science Press.
Edited Volumes.
Delgado, S. J., González González, C, Pomales García, S. M., Rivera Pagán, N. S., Flores Figueroa, V. M., Rivera Martínez, P., & Sierra Rivera, Y. (2023). Representations of Puerto Rican Identity and Agency in
Ricanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico
CENTRO Journal. 3
5(3), 93-124.
Delgado, S. J., Rivera Martínez, P. Franco Marrero, V. E. & Mena-Santiago, N. C. (2022). People will always judge you; my accent is beautiful” How young people are validating Puerto Rican English. In Faraclas, N., R. Severing, E. Echteld, S. Delgado, & W. Rutgers (Eds.),
Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and Caribbean Sciences: Inclusive approaches to the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond
(pp.33-46). University of Curaçao.
Delgado, S. J. (2022). Review of Perez, Danae, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, & Daniel Schreier (eds.). 2021. English and Spanish: World languages in interaction. Cambridge University Press. [Book review].
Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics,
8, 30-34. file:///C:/Users/sally/Downloads/Delgado-JOPOL-82022.pdf
Faraclas, N. G. &
Delgado, S. J.
(2021). Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-colonial Linguistics and Post-creole Creolistics. In Faraclas, N. & S. J. Delgado (Eds.),
Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics
(pp. 1-13).
Routledge.
Faraclas, N. G. &
Delgado, S. J.
(2021). Chapter 3: Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Atlantic ‘Creoles’ and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and Varieties. In Faraclas, N. & S. J. Delgado (Eds.),
Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics
(pp. 32-76).
Routledge.
Delgado, S. J. (2021). Chapter 4: Renegades, raiders, loggers and traders in the early colonial contact zones of the western Caribbean. In Faraclas, N. & S. J. Delgado (Eds.),
Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics
(pp. 78-113).
Routledge.
Delgado, S. J. (2021). Chapter 10. Ship English of the Early Colonial Atlantic. In Schneider, B., Heyd, T., & Saraceni, M. (Eds.). (2021).
Bloomsbury World Englishes Volume 1: Paradigms
(pp. 159-176). Bloomsbury Publishing.
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David Lizardi Sierra is associate professor in the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. He has been at UPR-Cayey since 2001 and has occupied various administrative positions in the university and the English department. His interests are in Caribbean, Latino, U.S., & British literature, Pop cultural studies and literature, and music in connection with literary genres and culture. He also teaches ESL general education courses. He has published articles on Caribbean literature, Calypso and its influence on Caribbean literary genres, Representations of women in literary works and music, Popular Latino music, and has had poems published in journals and newspapers.
• Email address: david.lizardi1@upr.edu
Education
Ph.D. in the literature and languages of the English-speaking Caribbean with a major in Literature (UPR-RP)
Title of Dissertation: Jean, Dinah, Dorothy & the Rest: Representations of Women in Calypso & Literary Works of the Caribbean
MA in English: Literature (UPR-RP)
Title of thesis: “But I Want My Own Trunk”: Colonial Struggles in Annie John.
Areas of specialization: Twentieth Century British Drama, Caribbean Literature, and 19th & 20th century U.S. Literature.
BA in English/English-Education; Colegio Universitario de Cayey, C.U.C. (UPR-Cayey)
Areas of specialty
Caribbean, Latino, U.S., & British literature, Pop cultural studies and literature, oral and scribal poetry and music, Caribbean, U.S., British contemporary drama, culture and literature, Women and gender.
Literature and music of the Caribbean; Caribbean Drama & performance
Courses you are teaching and have taught
INGL 0002- Pre-Basic English
INGL 3101-02- Basic English I & II
INGL 3103-04- Intermediate English I & II
INGL 3201-02- Reading, Writing & Grammar I & II
INGL 3002- British Literature II
INGL 3145- Juvenile Delinquency in the 20th Century U.S. Novel & Film**
INGL 3155- Immigrant Voices in London**
INGL 3229- Caribbean Experience in Literature**
INGL 3221-3222- Introduction to Literature I & II
INGL 3231-3232- Advanced Composition I & II
INGL 3251-3252- U.S. Literature I & II
INGL 3265- English Across Cultures
INGL 3329- Caribbean Soundscapes: Poetry & Music of the Caribbean*
INGL 3335- Young Adult Literature
INGL 3360- Video, Culture & Literature**
INGL 3365- Literature of the Puerto Rican Experience in the U.S.**
INGL 3367- The Vietnam War & U.S. Pop Culture**
INGL 3429- Caribbean Drama & Performance*
INGL 3515- Special Topics in English
INGL 3517- Special Topics in Early British English
INGL 4185- Seminar in Cultural Studies
INGL 4275- Seminar in Literary History
INGL 4365- Seminar in Early (American/British) Literary History
INGL 4375- Seminar in Race, Ethnicity & Literature
INGL 4380- Seminar in Critical & Literary Theory
INGL 4407- Capstone Experience in English^ **
*Indicates courses developed by D. Lizardi
**Indicates courses substantially revised by D. Lizardi
^Indicates course co-developed with J. Marshall (Rtd.)
Publications
“Lorna Goodison: Interview by Lowell Fiet.” (Trancsribed by David Lizardi).
Sargasso 2001: Concerning Lorna Goodison. Lowell Fiet, ed. March 2002:
9-19. [Print]
“Review of Pressure Drop by Robert Buckeye.” Sargasso 2001: Concerning Lorna Goodison.
Lowell Fiet, ed. March 2002: 123-26. [Print]
“Singing the Kaiso: A New Approach to V.S. Naipaul.” Revista La Torre. El Caribe Anglófono. VII: 25.
Y. Ferdinandy, ed. July-Sept. 2002: 469-77. [Print]
Sargasso 2002: New Century/New Horizons: Emerging Scholars of Caribbean Literatures, Languages, & Cultures. (Graduate Students Issue). XII: 2. Eds.
S. Everson, E. Luciano, D. Walicek, D. Lizardi, & Raphael Dalleo. May, 2003. [Print]
“El Departamento de Inglés Integrando Esfuerzos.” Visión 2004. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey. marzo 2004: 20. [Web]
“Chivalry Through Obeah: The Equal-Opportunity Calypso.” Revista La Torre. El Caribe Anglófono. X: 36-37. Sept. 2005; 381-91. [Print]
“Constructing Awareness Via Sexual-Political Discourse & Riddims: AIDS & Caribbean Music.”
Sargasso 2006-07, 1: Minor Keys, Chords & Discords. University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR 2007. 83-97. [Print]
“‘Malo, Malo, Malo’: Discurso sobre la Violencia Domestica en la Musica Popular Caribeña y Latina.” Revista de Ponencias del Quinto Coloquio Nacional Sobre la Mujer: Voces
Que Cuentan. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR. Marzo 2008. 211-32. [Print]
“Tata Rocks.” (Poem). Forum XXIII, Revista Literaria. Vol. XXIII. Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo, 2016. [Web].
“Tributo a Jonathan Rivera Lizardi.” (Poem). La Voz del Paseo Boricua (Chicago, Illinois). Vol. 15, no. 26-27, January-February, 2017. 11. [Print]
Review: What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music, by Hope Munro. Sargasso 2016-17, I & II. University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, 2017. 139-46. [Print]
Vazquez, Nellie, Lydia Platon, Nereida Prado, Thayra Reyes, and David Lizardi. “37 Years of Women and Gender Based Curriculum at the University of Puerto Rico at  Cayey: Teaching and Embracing True Gender Equity.” Actas del XI Coloquio Nacional Sobre Las Mujeres; Feminismos, Descolonialidad y Otras Intersecciones. University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, P.R. [Forthcoming, 2018].
Video
Savidge, Leigh and James Chankin, directors. Straight Outta Puerto Rico: Reggaeton’s Rough Road to Glory. Interviews with Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderon, David Lizardi, et.al. Xenon Pictures, 2008.
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Patria López de Victoria, PhD
Full Professor in the English department of UPR Cayey, teaching courses in Linguistics, Research Methods, and Writing. Her research focuses on language, health, and ageing. She is a qualitative researcher currently working on a project on the narrative experience of disaster in older adults. She is also working on an NIH funded project on resilience and medical helpseeking after the passing of Hurricane Maria.
Office 222 MC – Ext. 2503
E-mail address:
lopez1@upr.edu
Education
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics December 2016
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania USA
Dissertation: “Narratives of Self in Bilingual Older Adults Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease”
Areas of Specialization
Discourse Analysis; Identity/Self; Language and Ageing; Language, Health, and Ageing; Language, Health, and Quality of Life; Qualitative Inquiry; Multilingualism; Narrative Inquiry; Language Ideologies; Language and Power; Dementia; Stancetaking in Narrative Interviews; Small Sample Qualitative Interviews
Courses Taught
INGL 3201 Composition, Reading, and Grammar in English I
INGL 3202 Composition, Reading, and Grammar in English II
INGL 3515: Special Topics: Language, Power, and Ideologies
INGL 4290 Approaches to Discourse Analysis
INGL 4293 Second Language Acquisition
INGL 3103 Intermediate English
INGL 3021: Oral and Written English: Theory and Practice
Grants Awarded
López de Victoria, P. (PI) & R.W. Schrauf (Co-PI). Resilience and Helpseeking in Health and Illness by and for the Elderly. NIH RFA-MD-18-006; GRANT No. R21MD013701 (2018-2020)
Manuscripts in Preparation/Revised
López de Victoria, P. (in prep). Cuéntame de María: A look at lived experience from the perspective of Elderly Cayeyanos. Manuscript to be submitted to the Ageing & Society Journal.
López de Victoria, P. (in prep). Tell me that again? How retelling aids bilingual persons with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Manuscript to be submitted to International Journal of Bilingualism.
Schrauf, R,W., Lopez de Victoria, P., & Diaz, B. (in revision). Linguistic stance. An integrative paradigm for small sample mixed methods social science. Language & Society.
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David Luciano Nuñez, EdD
Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey where he has taught a wide range of courses from Basic English to upper echelon courses such as Phonetics, Seminar in Linguistics, Discourse and Grammar among others. Has conducted research with new techniques and methodology always with the goal of improving and updating the English Department’s as well as the Pedagogy’s curricula. His passion has always been to instill in the students the need in today’s society for learning and acquiring the English language and for them to understand that: Learning is Fun, and It is A Lifelong Journey!
Office – 222MC – Ext 2271
E-mail address:
luciano@upr.edu
Education
Ed D Curriculum and Teaching TESL
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus June 2011
Dissertation title: The Effect of a Kernel Sentence Combining Technique On the Reading Comprehension Levels of Seventh Grade ESL Students in Puerto Rico
Committee: Claudia Álvarez, María Soledad Martínez, María A. Irizarry (Chair)
MEd TESL
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus May, 2006
BA Secondary Education TESL May, 1996
Interamerican University, Ponce Campus
Teaching 2016
Assistant Professor
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Professor Intensive Basic English II (English 3162)
Teaching and Advising 2012-Present
Assistant Professor
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Professor Basic English I and II (INGL3101-3102).
Professor Grammar, Composition, and Reading (INGL 3201-3202).
Professor Intermediate English I and II (INGL 3103-3104).
Professor English Majors and Pedagogy students- courses:
Introduction to Language (INGL 3225).
The Syntax of English Structural Grammar (INGL 3205).
Seminar in Linguistics (INGL 4290).
A Contrastive Analysis of English and Spanish (INGL 4245).
Discourse and Grammar (INGL 4210).
Oral and Written English I: Theory and Practice (INGL 3021).
Phonetics of the English Language. (INGL 4011).
INTD 4116- Research Course
Research Experience
2006-2011
Doctoral Research
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Conducted a quasi-experiment to test the effect of the Kernel Sentence Combining Technique for improving reading comprehension levels of ESL students in Puerto Rico.
Examined the existing methods and techniques used by Department of Education in Puerto Rico.
Currently conducting research with Basic English students at UPR-Cayey Campus.
Conferences/Workshops
Puerto Rico TESOL 44th Annual Convention Presenter. March 3rd, 2018.
Workshop: The Kernel Sentence Combining Technique for Improving Reading Comprehension Levels and Writing Skills. Costa Bahia Hotel & Casino, Guayanilla, PR.
Publications
El Nuevo Día (June,2012). El Idioma Global.
PRTESOL-GRAM (August, 2012). The Impact and Spread of English as a Global Language.
Issue No. I pp. 32-35.
Doctoral Dissertation (June, 2011). The Effect of a Kernel Sentence Combining Technique on the Reading Comprehension Levels of Seventh Grade ESL Students in Puerto Rico.
ProQuest, 3460568.
University Service
Translation Work
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Translated the University’s Catalog from Spanish to English
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Worked on the translation of the Self-Study Report
Undergraduate Mentor/Advisor
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Mentorship and advice to pedagogy students in their compilation of a portfolio which is a graduation requirement.
Ncate/Tesol Accreditation
Collaborated with faculty members with the accreditation of the English Majors and Elementary and Secondary Pedagogy Teacher preparation programs.
General Education Committee
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Collaborated with other faculty members with the revision of Interdisciplinary courses (INTD).
Collaborated in the revision of common core courses.
Collaborated with other faculty members with the revision of the “Habilidades y Contenidos” and the “Nuevo Modelo para la Educación General” documents.
Professional Memberships
Golden Key Honour Society
TESOL Member
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Gladys Ramos García
A part-time professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. She worked for more than four decades at the institution occupying executive administrative positions, such as Special Assistant to the Chancellor, Director of External Resources in addition to teaching, which is one of her passions. Her primary focus is
Business English Communication
; however, she has taught Basic English courses and Children’s Literature too. As an alumni and retired employee from UPR Cayey, she collaborated with many institutional committees and actively participated in preparing several Middle States self-study accreditation reports. She also worked closely with faculty developing different proposals for the institution obtaining successful grants and funds for the institution.
Education
Med TESOL Interamerican,University, San Juan
B.A Elementary and Secondary English Education, UPR Cayey
Active member of TESOL
Has collaborated, offering workshops to high school students on how to prepare business documents.  She has also taught at Interamerican Barranquitas and Guayama campuses.
Email address:
ramos@upr.edu
Courses Taught
INCO 3005 – Business Communication I
INCO 3006 – Business Communication II
Thayra Reyes Díaz, EdD
Assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. She has offered courses in ​​English as a second language, literature, advanced composition, and gender studies, as well as courses in pedagogy in ​​elementary and secondary English. She has also collaborated as an editor, translator, and proofreader at the UPR Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Cayey. She has a Doctorate in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Environments with an emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language from Ana G. Méndez University. Her doctoral dissertation was titled: Through the Looking Glass: Female Character Representations in Young Adult Literature in the Teaching of ESL. Dr. Reyes has been a workshop leader in professional development programs for teachers. She has an international certification in Cognitive Neuroscience Applied to Education, from the International Bureau of Applied Cognitive Neuroscience (BINCA). She has collaborated as an opinion columnist in the newspaper El Nuevo Día on topics related to curriculum, teaching, and education in Puerto Rico. Dr. Reyes is an active PRTESOL and the International Literacy Association (ILA) member. She recently published a children’s book titled:
Un choque en el tiempo
(A Clash in Time- Editorial Raíces, PR 2022), awarded with an honorable mention in the category of Best Children’s Illustrated Fiction Book at the International Latino Book Awards (ILBA) 2023. Dr. Reyes is currently developing a course based on creative writing titled: Writing to Heal: Creative Writing Techniques to Promote Student Resilience, Empowerment, and Agency under the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of the UPR at Cayey and the Mellon Foundation.
Office 221 MC – Ext. 2080
E-mail address:
reyes@upr.edu
Course Taught
INGL 3021 – Oral and Written English I
INGL 3022 – Oral and Written English II
INGL 3101 – Basic English I
INGL 3102 – Basic English II
INGL 3201 – Grammar, Composition and Reading I
INGL 3202 – Grammar, Composition and Reading II
INGL 3221 – Introduction to Literature I
INGL 3222 – Introduction to Literature II
INGL 3225 – Introduction to Language
INGL 3246 – Modern Literature By and About Women
INGL 3335 – Adolescent Literature
INGL 3515 – Teaching ESL Reading and Composition at the Secondary Level
EING 3515 – Methods in TESOL at the Elementary and Secondary Levels
INGL 4326 – Children’s Literature
INGL 4335 – Second Language Acquisition
Education
Ed. -The Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL)
Ed. D.- Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Environments
Ana G. Méndez University, Puerto Rico, 2019
Dissertation: Through the looking glass: Female character representations in young adult literature in the teaching of ESL
Graduated with a 4.00 GPA
Turabo University, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, 2011
Non-Interactive Research: Action speaks louder than words: The need for an optimal
learning environment to enhance communicative competence in high school students
in Puerto Rico based on Caine & Caine’s 12 brain-based principles.
B.A. Honors in Secondary English Education (GPA 3.95)
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico, 2007
Concentration: English (Secondary Level)
Honors Thesis: “UPR Cayey 1st Year Basic English Student’s Writing Self-Perceptions:
A Descriptive Study. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Honors Program Certificate.
Member of the Honors Studies Program (PEH).
Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.95 GPA.
Obtained a medal for the highest GPA in Secondary Education.
Research Interests
Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL), Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Transformative Learning, Brain-Based Learning, Applied Educational Neuroscience, Gender Studies, Curriculum and Teaching, Children’s Literature, YA Literature, Literacy, Creative Writing, Critical Content Analysis, Literary Theory
Publications
Reyes, T.M. (2022).
Un choque en el tiempo
. Editorial Raíces.
Synopsis:
Naia and Ema help Samuel B. Morse who comes to the town of Arroyo in
hopes of finding his lost telegraph to prove he invented it.
Reyes, T.M. (2021, May 4). Currículo con perspectiva de género: De dónde venimos y hacia dónde vamos. In El Nuevo Día. https://www.elnuevodia.com/opinion/punto-de-vista/curriculo-con-perspectiva-de-genero-de-donde-venimos-y-hacia-donde-vamos/
Synopsis:
Highlights the importance of defining gender perspective while providing a timeline of the gender perspective curriculum ups and downs, as well as pedagogical implications for the future.
Reyes, T.M. (2019).
Through the Looking Glass: Female Character Representations in
Young Adult Literature in the Teaching of ESL
(Doctoral dissertation). ProQuest
Publishing.
Synopsis:
Emphasizes the importance of the use of feminist literary criticism
as an approach to promote transformative learning, critical literacy, transferable
knowledge, dialogic engagement, and metacognitive awareness in the analysis interpretation, and evaluation of young adult (YA) literature in the ESL classroom.
Reyes, T.M. (2017, April).
Shifting mindsets, recalibrating schemes: Transformative
learning and the women and gender-based curriculum at UPR Cayey
. In XI Coloquio nacional sobre las mujeres [XI Colloquium about Women], UPR Mayagüez.
Synopsis:
Highlights the pedagogical implications of the gender-based curriculum
at UPR Cayey through the theoretical framework of Transformative Learning.
Reyes, T.M. (2017, April 17).
Huelga UPR: Aprendizaje Transformativo
. In El Nuevo Día.
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Synopsis:
Offers a socio-educational perspective of the students at UPR and how they
educate and learn, reflect and act, propose and collaborate from their trenches, within
an atmosphere of respect and openness.
Reyes, T.M. (2013, February 24).
Hacia una educación proactiva
. In El Nuevo Día.
Synopsis:
Exposes the importance of proactive teachers to validate students’ critical
thinking as a way to transform society.
Office 221 MC – Ext. 2080
E-mail address:
reyes@upr.edu
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Wilfredo R. Santiago Hernández
Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation, with a concentration in Caribbean Studies, at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. His primary areas of scholarly interest include Puerto Rican diaspora literature, Asian American studies, and Caribbean technopoetics. He also collaborates with the College Board’s Latin America branch in Puerto Rico, where he serves as an English content specialist for the Research and Development division. From 2019 to 2021, he offered professional development workshops to U.S. educators on literature and history through El Proyecto Cordero Belpré, an organization dedicated to fostering decolonial pedagogical approaches in U.S. classrooms. He has taught introductory through advanced literature courses at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. His scholarly work has appeared in the 2023 volume of Southern Resonances: Southern Epistemologies, Southern Praxes, and the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean and Beyond, and he is currently developing a contribution to Palgrave Macmillan’s Reconfiguring Carceral Imaginaries (forthcoming, 2026). His research and teaching foreground transnational, comparative, and decolonial frameworks that bridge literary scholarship, technology, and cultural critique.
Office 221 MC – Ext. 2080
E-mail address:
santiago5@upr.edu
Courses Taught
INGL 3101 – Basic English I
INGL 3102 – Basic English II
INGL 3201 – Grammar, Composition and Reading I
INGL 3202 – Grammar, Composition and Reading II
INGL 3221 – Introduction to Literature I
INGL 3222 – Introduction to Literature II
INGL 3231 – Rhetoric and Composition I
INGL 3232 – Rhetoric and Composition II
INGL 3251 – Literature of the United States I
INGL 3252 – Literature of the United States II
Wendell Villanueva Reyes, PhD
Assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. His interests include the Caribbean Bildungsroman, Caribbean Identity, Literature and Film, American and African American Literature and Popular Music as tool for Resistance. He has published articles in La Torre and in the books In a Sea of Heteroglossia: Pluri-Lingualism, Plural-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean and Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles (With Dr. Nicolas Faraclas).
Office 228A MC – Ext.2505
E-mail address:
villanueva1@upr.edu
Education
PhD in the literature and languages of the English-speaking Caribbean with a major in Literature (UPR-RP)
• Title of Dissertation: Agency and National Identity in Samuel Selvon and Michael Anthony’s Bildungsroman
MA in the literature and languages of the English-speaking Caribbean with a major in Literature (UPR-RP)
Title of Thesis: The Role of Christianity in the Colonization Process of Africa and Its Diaspora as Represented in the Works of Three Modern Black Writers
Certificate in Linguistics and The Teaching of English as a Second Language (San Diego State University, San Diego, California)
MA in Spanish with a minor in English and Music (San Diego State University, San Diego, California)
BA in Applied Arts and Sciences (San Diego State University, San Diego, California)
Courses Taught
INCO 3005-06 Business Communication
INGL 3055 Literature and Film
INGL 3101-02- Basic English I & II
INGL 3201-02- Reading, Writing & Grammar I & II
INGL 3002- British Literature II
INGL 3226–African American Experience/Literature
INGL 3229- Caribbean Experience in Literature
INGL 3221-3222- Introduction to Literature I & II
INGL 3251-3252- American Literature I & II
INGL 3231-3232- Advanced Composition I & II
INGL 4326 – Children’s Literature
Publications
“Reconciling differences: Michael Anthony’s Green Days by the River” Editors Nicolas Faraclas Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elizabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne and Elena Lawton de Torruella. Chapter published in the book In a Sea of Heteroglossia: Pluri-Lingualism, Plural-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean. University of the Netherlands Antilles, Nov. 2010.
“Overlapping Identities in Samuel Selvon’s Fiction” Article published in the UPR Journal La Torre Año XI, Num. 41-42, Julio-Diciembre 2006.
“Ritualized Insults and the African Diaspora: ‘Sounding’ in African American Vernacular English and ‘Wording’ in Nigerian Pidgin.” Editors Susanne Muhleisen and Bettina Migge, et al. Chapter published in the book Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, from the series [Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005.
“The Year in San Fernando Appropriating and Reversing the Gaze as an Act of Agency and Growth in an Effort to Construct a Trinidadian National Identity” Article published in the UPR Journal La Torre Año X, Num. 36-37, Abril-Septiembre 2005.
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Ingried Rodríguez Pagán - Lab Technician II
Office: 206B – MC MALC Lab – extension 2047
Email –
ingried.rodriguez@upr.edu
Jennie Merced Reyes - Administrative Assistant IV
Office 225 MC – Department of English – Extension 2188
Email –
jennie.merced1@upr.edu
Department of English
Arturo Morales Carrión Bldg., Office 225
PO Box 372230
Cayey, Puerto rico 00737-2230
Tel. 787-738-2161 ext. 2181, 2188
Working hours: 7:30am-3:30pm Monday-Friday
«What can I do with an English Degree?»
This is one of the possible questions incoming first year students ask themselves because many perceive English simply as a school subject, thus equating studying English with becoming teachers. That is only one possibility. Certainly, if you pursue a B.A in English, you may plan to follow a career in teaching, but studying English can open other possibilities as well. A major in English has currency in unexpected areas in today’s marketplace. A degree in English could lead to careers in other fields. Our alumni are pursuing careers in Law, Commerce, Journalism, and the arts. Below is a shortlist of possibilities.
Career Opportunities
Unlike other vocational degrees, a major in English opens a variety of career opportunities for college graduates entering the job market. Since students who graduate with an English degree are trained to ask probing questions about large bodies of texts and then to formulate, analyze, and answer those questions in coherent, persuasive prose, which are vital skills to any number of careers, English majors have much to choose from after graduation. The most obvious career choices for English Majors are writing, journalism, editing, publishing, and teaching. However, other less intuitive job options include positions in advertising, public relations, acting, law, business, marketing, and directing.
Potential Fields & Careers:
• Undergraduate Studies
• Book Publishing
• Business Ventures
• Career Counseling
• Creative Writing
• Comparative Literature
• Court Language Interpreters/ Transcription
• Cultural Studies
• Federal & State Government / Administrative Fields
• Film Studies/Production
• Gender Studies
• Graduate Studies
• International Relations
• Journalism
• Law
• Linguistics
• Modern Languages
• Translation Studies/Translators
• Public Relations
• Tourism Industry
• TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
• English Education
• Acting
• Writing
• Marketing
• Directing
• Other Fields (Advertising, Athletics, Coaching, Encryptic analysis & deciphering, Entrepreneurship, Military-related Fields, Industrial-Pharmaceutical related Fields, Politics, Proposal development
Profile of the Graduate with a B.A. in English
To fulfill the program goals within the major, the department will offer a bachelor’s program through which students will:
a. Become conversant in diverse and current areas of English studies.
b. Develop essential speaking, writing, critical, and analytical abilities for success in their field, their future professions, and their lives.
c. Use the language and their learning both within and beyond the university classroom
d. Enhance their sense of social responsibility.
ublications:
«Cayey Students Write» (January-February)
«Cayey Students Write» (March-AprilMay)
«Cayey Students Write»  (October-November 2018)
«Cayey Students Write»  (June 2020)
Director Name
: Nellie Vázquez Rivera
Director Email
: nellie.vazquez1@upr.edu
Secretary Email
: jennie.merced1@upr.edu
Departent Email
: ingles.cayey@upr.edu
Link to information about Academic Advising
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Sigma Tau Delta
Announcements & Events
Sigma Tau Delta:
The International English Honor Society
Chapter: Alpha Zeta Alpha (est. 1997)
Sponsor: David Lizardi Sierra, Ph.D.; Advisors: Nellie Vázquez, Ph.D, Nereida Prado, Ph.D.
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, was founded in 1924 at Dakota Wesleyan University.
The Society strives to:
Confer distinction for high achievement in English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies;
Provide, through its local chapters, cultural stimulation on college campuses and promote interest in literature and the English language in surrounding communities; Foster all aspects of the discipline of English, including literature, language, and writing; Promote exemplary character and good fellowship among its members; Exhibit high standards of academic excellence; and Serve society by fostering literacy.  With over 875 active chapters located in the United States and abroad, there are more than 1,000 Faculty Sponsors, and approximately 9,000 members inducted annually.
Sigma Tau Delta
also recognizes the accomplishments of professional writers who have contributed to the fields of language and literature.
Publications:
Life During a Pandemic(June Newsletter)
New
Christmas en Puerto Rico Newsletter
New Beginnings
English Department Newsletter (Forthcoming)
Phoebus Light-The English Department Journal (Forthcoming)
Cayey students write (september-october 2016
ALL THINGS LOVE (February-March 2019)
Sigma Tau Delta
Sigma Tau Delta:
The International English Honor Society
Chapter: Alpha Zeta Alpha (est. 1997)
Sponsor: David Lizardi Sierra, Ph.D.; Advisors: Nellie Vázquez, Ph.D, Nereida Prado, Ph.D.
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, was founded in 1924 at Dakota Wesleyan University.
The Society strives to:
Confer distinction for high achievement in English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies;
Provide, through its local chapters, cultural stimulation on college campuses and promote interest in literature and the English language in surrounding communities; Foster all aspects of the discipline of English, including literature, language, and writing; Promote exemplary character and good fellowship among its members; Exhibit high standards of academic excellence; and Serve society by fostering literacy.  With over 875 active chapters located in the United States and abroad, there are more than 1,000 Faculty Sponsors, and approximately 9,000 members inducted annually.
Sigma Tau Delta
also recognizes the accomplishments of professional writers who have contributed to the fields of language and literature.
Publications:
Life During a Pandemic(June Newsletter)
New
Christmas en Puerto Rico Newsletter
New Beginnings
English Department Newsletter (Forthcoming)
Phoebus Light-The English Department Journal (Forthcoming)
Cayey students write (september-october 2016
ALL THINGS LOVE (February-March 2019)
Announcements & Events
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