Rosamaría León
33 Belknap Road • West Hartford, CT • rosamaria.leon@yale.edu • website
Education
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Storrs, CT
Ph.D., Spanish Colonial Literature 2007
Dissertation “Saintly Vindication: Religious Epic and the Formation of Creole Identities, Study and Edition of the Heroic Poem Vida de Santa Rosa de Santa María (1711)”
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Storrs, CT
M.A., Spanish Literature 2000
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERU Lima, Peru
B.A., Literature and Linguistics (Cum Laude: ‘con honores’) 1992
Teaching Experience
2008-present - Yale University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Elementary Spanish I (SPAN 110)
Elementary Spanish II (SPAN 120, SPAN 1200)
Intermediate Spanish I (SPAN 130)
Intermediate Spanish II (SPAN 140)
Advanced Oral and Written Communication in Spanish (SPAN 150)
Advanced Conversation (SPAN 151)
Advanced Grammar (SPAN 153)
Language and Culture through Art (SPAN 221, SPAN 2015)
2013-present - Yale Summer Session
Advanced Language and Culture of Peru through Art (SPAN S227), Lima, Peru
Advanced Language and Culture of Peru through Art (SPAN S227), online and
Intermediate Spanish I (SPAN 130), Lima - Peru, Bilbao - Spain
Intermediate Spanish II (SPAN 140), Lima - Peru, Bilbao - Spain
History, Literature, and Culture of Peru (SPAN S247), Lima - Peru
Spain 1936 to the present: History, Literature, and Culture (SPAN S248), Bilbao - Spain
2022 - Yale Faculty Academy Mini-Course
Language and Culture through Art in the YUAG
2003 - 2005 - Trinity College
Language and Culture Studies Department
Intensive Elementary Spanish I (Spanish 101)
Intensive Elementary Spanish II (Spanish 102)
Intermediate Spanish Composition
1998 - 2003 - University of Connecticut
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Elementary Spanish I (Spanish 181)
Elementary Spanish II (Spanish 182)
Intermediate Spanish I (Spanish 183)
Intermediate Spanish II (Spanish 184)
Intermediate Spanish Composition (Spanish 278)
1994 - 1998 - Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima, Lima- Perú
Humanities Department
Approaches to Linguistics
Language and Grammar
Composition and Redaction of Texts
World Literature
Peruvian Literature
1995 - 1998 - Instituto Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos, Lima- Perú
Humanities Department
Comprehension and Analysis of Texts.
Composition and Grammar
Essay and Oratorical
1998 - Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima- Perú
Composition and Professional Writing
1994 - 1997 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima Perú
Humanities Department
Language and Grammar
Comprehension and Analysis of Texts
1993 - 1998 - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Humanities and Sciences Departments
Research Methodology and Redaction of Thesis
Writing and Composition
Spanish Grammar
1992 - Colegio Villa María La Planicie, Lima- Perú
Spanish Language Grammar
World and Peruvian Literature
Academic Appointments
2011-present: Yale University - Senior Lector I
2008-2011: Yale University - Senior Lector
2003-2005: Trinity College - Becario de Posgrado
1998-2003: Universidad de Connecticut - Profesor
1994-1998: Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima - Profesor
1995-1998: Instituto Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos - Profesor
1994-1997: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - Profesor
1998: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola - Profesor
1993-1998: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Instructor
1992: Colegio Villa María La Planicie - Profesor de Secundaria
Administrative appointments
2024-2025: Coordinator of Study Abroad Program in Lima, Peru, Yale Summer Session
2021-2022: Coordinator of Study Abroad Program in Lima, Peru, Yale Summer Session
2023-2025: Yale College Advisor
2025 -2028: College Art Association (CAA) Council of Readers
2025: Independent Study Student Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese Department
2023 -2025: Organization and Conduction of “Conversaciones sobre Arte y Cultura en Español”, Silliman
College, Yale University
2011-2021:Course Coordinator, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Elementary Spanish II (SPAN 140),
Yale University
2017: Coordinator of Study Abroad Program in Bilbao, Spain, Yale Summer Session
2014-2016: Coordinator of Study Abroad Program in Lima, Peru, Yale Summer Session
2003-2005: Organization and direction of the “Latin American and Iberian Film Series”, Trinity College
2003-2005: Faculty Advisor for the Spanish Club, Trinity College
2003-2005: Organization and Host of the weekly Spanish Table, Trinity College
2003-2005: Annual Departmental Solstice Party, Trinity College
2003-2005: Annual Poetry Reading, Trinity College
1994-1998: Organization of the Poetry Contest- Annual Contest, Facultad de Teología Pontificia and Civil de
Lima
1994-1998 Organizer of the Poetry Club, Facultad de Teología Pontificia and Civil de Lima
Publications
“Lengua y Cultura a través del Arte: Estrategias de Enseñanza y Práctica” (corrected proofs submitted). Dialogarts. Forthcoming Spring 2026.
“Recursos Educativos Abiertos (“Open Educational Resources) para enseñar lenguas usando objetos en museos”. Innovación pedagógica y transformación digital en la enseñanza de la lengua, la literatura y las culturas hispánicas, edited by Teresa Fernández-Ulloa and Alba Devo Colis, co-editors; California State University, Bakersfield/ MacEwan University/ Western University, (corrected proofs submitted). Forthcoming Fall 2025.
“Writing with your eyes: Community-Based Learning in an Art Museum to Generate Communicative Competence in a Foreign Language”. Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition, and Campus Engagement, edited by Heather Flaherty and Jodi Kovach, co-editors; Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
“Vida de Santa Rosa de Santa María, Poema Heroico… y las Características de la Mitología Criolla”. Lima: Revista Teológica Limense, Vol. LI -No 3 2017 (pp. 335-344)
“El Enganche”. ¡Basta! 100+ Latinas against Gender Violence. Nevada: Latino Research Center Book Series, University of Nevada, Reno, 2017.
Vida de Santa Rosa de Santa María (1711) Edición crítica y Estudio Anotado. (In revision MS).
SPAN 140 Course Packet, Tyco, 2011-2020
Cuaderno Span 140; eBook, 2014-2016
Conferences and Presentations (selected)
57th NeMLA chair panel “Enhancing Language Teaching through Museums”, forthcoming March 2026
CAA 114th Annual Conference, “Active Learning and Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Art of the Americas before 1300”, forthcoming February 2026
The 6th Annual NYU Conference on Second Language Pedagogy, “Creating Language Activities Using Art Objects, and OER”. forthcoming October 2025
Envisioning Artificial Intelligence at Yale Symposium, “AI in Open Educational Resources (OER) for Language Studies”, May 2025
V Seminario de Experiencias Prácticas en Didáctica del Español como Primera Lengua, Lengua Extranjera y de Herencia (y de las Literaturas y Culturas Hispanas), “Recursos Educativos Abiertos (OER) para enseñar lenguas usando el arte y los museos”, May 2025
56th NeMLA “Fundamentals of Teaching Language through the Arts”, March 2025
IV Seminario de Experiencias Prácticas en Didáctica del Español como Primera Lengua, Lengua Extranjera y de Herencia (y de las Literaturas y Culturas Hispanas), “Lengua y Cultura a través del Arte: Estrategias de Enseñanza y Práctica”, December 2024
55th NeMLA, “Active Learning Components for Asynchronous Sessions”, March 2024 International Conference of the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, “Arts and Museums, Developing Intercultural Competence across Curricula”, February 2024.
Gund Gallery and The Art Bridges Foundation Interdisciplinary Webinar “Using Art to Teach Foreign Languages: A Series of Approaches”, November 2022
NECLAS, “Visual Art of Peru: Remembrance, Resilience and Hope during the Covid-19 Pandemic”, October 2022 (accepted)
Guest speaker for the course The Cult of Saints in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages (HSAR 584), “Saintly Vindication”, Yale University, April 2022
NEALLT, “Inter-institutional initiatives: virtual exchange programs that promote skills to obtain intercultural communication competence”, April 2022
NEALLT, “Creating a Multimodal Memoir: Literature, Visual Art and Podcasts for the Intermediate Levels”, March 2021
Radley International Webinar of Hispanic Literature, “Análisis de la obra ‘Crónica de una muerte anunciada” by Gabriel García Márquez”, December 2020
NERALLT, “Using Technology to Enhance Intercultural Dialogue about Visual Art”, October 2018
Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW) Yale Center for Language Studies. “Culture and Language trough Art”, May 2018
Consortium Symposium on Community-Based Language Education. “Writing With Your Eyes: a Community Based Approach to Promoting Fluency in a Second Language”, May 2017
Yale Center for Language Studies. “iPads in the Classroom”, February 2015
Yale Technology Summit. “iPad Uses for Study Abroad Language and Cultural Programs”, October 2014
New England Popular Culture Association. “Betty la Fea and the Distortions of the Telenovela Genre”, October 2014
New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology. “iPad uses for Language and Cultural Programs”, October 2014
52 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas Sevilla-España, Universidad de Sevilla. “Rosa de Lima y el Mito Fundacional Cristiano para el Criollismo Limeño”, July 2006
Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Conference. “Santa Rosa de Lima y la Cultura Religiosa en el Virreinato de Nueva Castilla”, September 2004.
New England Conference on Foreign Languages, University of Hartford. “El Uso del Lenguaje Clínico en los Ensayos de Manuel González-Prada”, November 2003.
Graduate Fellows Presentations, Trinity College. “Vida de Santa Rosa… y el Discurso Criollo”, December 2003.
University of Connecticut Model Class for Incoming Teaching Assistants. “Dealing with Teaching Spanish as a Second Language”, August 2000-2001.
Professional Training in Pedagogy (selected)
October 2025 Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning at Yale University
October 2025 SOLPHE 2025 Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education
Fall 2024 - present: AI Learning Community, Vista Higher Learning
May 2025: Course (Re)Design, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
February 2025: Envisioning PBLL Moodle Course Certification
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025: Disability Pedagogy and Accessibility Seminar, Yale Poorvu Center for
Spring 2025: Teaching and Learning
Fall 2024: Instructional Innovation Workshop, “Open Education Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, CLS, Yale University
Fall 2023: Humanities/Social Sciences Semester-long Learning Communities, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
May 2023: Instructional Innovation Workshop, “Evaluating Learning Outcomes”, CLS, Yale University
July 2022: Symposium on Language Learning in Academic Museums, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College
May 2022: Course (Re)Design, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
March 2021: Academic Continuity Workshop: Annotation Tools to Help Students Engage with Texts, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
February 2021: Teaching and Learning Discussion with Astrid Baumgardner: Building Community in the Remote Teaching Context, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
February 2021: Canvas @ Yale Overview: Hypothesis, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
December 2020: Course support for Instructors, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
July 2020: Workshop on Remote Teaching: “Art as Primary Text”, Yale Art Gallery
May 2020: Emergency Remote Teaching Reflection Workshop, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
March 2020: Online Distance Training Workshop for Instructors, CLS, Yale
May 2019: Summer Institute Course on (Re)Design, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
May 2018: ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Assessment Workshop
May 2016: Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning at Brown University
February 2014: Testing Workshop: Assessing Grammar Communicatively, Testing the Test, Establishing Performance Samples, CLS Yale University
February 2014: Testing Workshop: Assessment Literacy, Writing Test Specifications, Writing Items and Moderation, CLS Yale University
Professional Training in Art History (courses audited at Yale)
Spring 2018: Culture Clash in the Americas (HSAR 204)
Fall 2018: Ekphrasis (HSAR 280)
Spring 2019: Art of Frame/Frame of Art (HSAR 610)
Spring 2021: Colonial Cities in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic (HSAR 444)
Spring 2022: The Cult of Saints in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages (HSAR 584)
Spring 2023: Introduction to the Digital Humanities for the Premodern World (HSAR 567)
Spring 2024: Language and the Study of Indigenous Art (HSAR 570)
Service
2025: Mentor for incoming faculty, CLS, Yale University
Summer 2025: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Placement Exam, Reading Proficiency Test Collaborator
Spring 2025: Reappointment Committee, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
2023 – present: Yale First-Generation and/or Low-Income Advocacy Mentorship Program (YFAM)
2022 – 2025: Accessibility Committee, Yale University
2022 – present: Yale College Adviser, Silliman College, Yale University
2024: NeMLA Job Clinic Mentor
2024: CLS Teaching Videos Project
2022 - present: Study Abroad Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2022 – 2023: Mentor for incoming faculty, CLS, Yale University
2023: Endorsement Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2016 – 2025: Summer Fellowships for Internships Committee, Yale Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE)
2022: Photography Contest Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2021: Mission Statement Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2021: Administration and Academic Roles Committee (chair), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2021: Spanish Lector Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
2022 – 2025: Director of Faith Formation, Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford, Connecticut
Grants and Fellowships
2024: Funding for Faculty Projects, CLS, Yale University
2024: Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW), CLS, Yale University
2024: Professional Development Fellowship, CLS, Yale University
2023: Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW), CLS, Yale University
2022: Instructional Enhancement Fund, Poorvu Center, Yale University
2021: Instructional Enhancement Fund, Poorvu Center, Yale University
2020: Instructional Enhancement Fund, Poorvu Center, Yale University
2018: Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW), CLS, Yale University
2016-2017: Travel Grant, Center for Language Studies, Yale University
2006: Travel Expense Award, University of Connecticut
2006: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, University of Connecticut
2005: Graduate Fellowship, Trinity College
2004: Extraordinary Expense Award, Research Foundation, University of Connecticut
2004: Graduate Student Fellowship for Summer Research. Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut
2001-2003: Graduate Student Fellowship for Ph.D. Studies. Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut
1998-2003: Teaching Assistant Fellowship. University of Connecticut
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
College Art Association (CAA)
Northeast Association of Language Learning (NEALLT)
GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)
The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA)
American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC)
Silliman College Fellow
Languages
Spanish (native fluency)
English (near-native fluency)
French and Italian (reading knowledge)
Latin (translation ability)
Areas of Academic and Teaching Interest
Language and Art
Intercultural Communicative Competence
Technology and AI in Languages
Language Acquisition and Study Abroad
Spanish Colonial Religious Literature and Art
Colonial Latin American Epic