Faculty & Staff
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Administrator of Hispanic Studies Activities
Faculty Listing
Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 05
Phone: +1-508-831-5356
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
imatos@wpi.edu
Educational Background
- B.A., University of Puerto Rico, 1981
- M.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, 1988
- Ph.D., Boston University, 2004
Research & Teaching Interests
Medieval, Golden Age and Colonial Literatures, Women’s Studies, History; Language and Technology; Teaching Methodology; Second Language Acquisition
Research
I have been conducting research on the role of women and the supernatural in literature from the Middle Ages to the Colonial Period in Hispanic America. My goal is to find elements that could reveal the incipient beginnings of rebellion amongst women writers of these literary periods. I study the traditional portraiture of women in literature as a means to find the roots of our culture today, and also how the female writers used their ingenuity to convey a message of rebellion without having to worry about social and religious retaliations against them. The supernatural element in my research is studied as the main component in conveying the idea of a double entendre in women’s literature. Women authors usually hid behind the convention created by society in terms of the supernatural, to point out the discrepancies between society’s portraiture of the female and women’s reality in everyday life.