Carmen Cañete Quesada

Carmen Cañete Quesada, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish

Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College

Hispanic Literature

ccaneteq@fau.edu

Jupiter Campus

Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Vanderbilt University
M. A., Hispanic Literature, University of Florida
B. A., Spanish / English Philology (double major), University of Córdoba, Spain.

Dr. Cañete Quesada research interests include aspects of race, exile and (post)coloniality in the Hispanic Caribbean and Spain since the Spanish-American War (1895-98). As a specialist in Caribbean studies, she received a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and conduct research in Dominican Republic.

Her essay “Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Memoirs of A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain” (Routledge, 2019) was sponsored by the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program. She was funded in 2020 and 2023 with the American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant to study the historical memory of Spanish Gypsies.

She is the recipient of the 2025 Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2024 Exceptional Faculty Award for the Northern Campuses.

Dr. Cañete Quesada is the director of the Wilkes Honors College Summer Abroad Program (SAP) in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she teaches an interdisciplinary course titled IDS 3932: H The Spanish Civil War in Retrospect: Loss, Memory and The Past.

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Dr. Cañete’s publications:

Dr. Cañete Quesada is the editor of Albricias, a specialized journal published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).

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