Dr. Rebecca L. Salois is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from the University of New Hampshire. In 2010, she moved to New York and attended The Graduate Center, CUNY where she earned her M.Phil in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages and her PhD in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures.
From 2004 to 2010, Rebecca taught high school Spanish in New Hampshire. She has taught Spanish language and literature at Brooklyn College, The Fashion Institute, and Hunter College. She also served as a Writing across the Curriculum Fellow at Hostos Community College for two years. In 2012, she began teaching World Literature in the Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Department at Baruch and transferred to the English Department in 2015. She joined the Black and Latino Studies Department in 2020.
In her current research, she focuses on theater and other visual literatures from Cuban and US Latinx communities. Her dissertation, entitled Choteo cubano: Humor as a Critical Tool in Twentieth-Century Cuban Theater, examined the applications and uses of Cuban humor in theater texts from the 1930s, 1960s, and 1990s, taking into consideration the social, political, and economic conditions on the island at those times. Going forward, she seeks to expand her research to include performance, humor, identity, and politics within Latinx communities in the United States, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Additionally, Rebecca co-hosts three podcasts: Latinx Visions with Dr. Rojo Robles, Big Reputations with Kimberly Kunkle, and Coach Beard’s Book Club with Michaela Hunter, Andrea DiMauro-Walton, and Marita Barth. She was the former host of the Why Do We Read This? podcast which connects world literature with pop-culture and current events. She has studied in Spain, Mexico, and Cuba and traveled to various other countries. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
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