Department of English
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Juan Gallardo

B. A. English, Wesleyan University, 2016.
Juan_Gallardo@brown.edu
Research Interests Black Feminism, Black Critical Theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Narrative Theory, Paraliterature

Biography

Juan Gallardo is a literary studies scholar and creative writer in the English Department at Brown University. His dissertation, Psychoanalytic Fictions: Simulating Blackness, Simulating the Unconscious, brings Freudian and Lacananian psychoanalytic theory to bear on classic texts of African American literature.

Teaching

Courses Taught: 

Spring 2025 Instructor of Record ENGL II: The Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism (Wentworth Institute of Technology) 

Spring 2025 Instructor of Record ENGL 241, U.S. Literature I (URI) 

Fall 2024 Instructor of Record ENGL 280, Intro to Shakespeare (URI) 

Spring 2023 Instructor of Record ENGL 200, Guilty Pleasures Science Fiction and Horror Survey (Brown University) 

Fall 2022 Instructor of Record ENGL 900, Critical Reading and Writing: The Academic Essay