Kaitlin E. Thomas

Kaitlin E. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Norwich University. Her research delves into U.S. and Latina/o/e identities that are resulting from trans-border cultural and national fusion, (un)documented Latina/o/e immigration and contemporary border regions around the Spanish-speaking world. She is interested in intersections between social media and cultural iconography as well as exploring music as a site for resistance in Latin America and Spain

Thomas has also completed non-degree studies with the Council of International Education Exchange in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sevilla, Spain: the Centro Panoamericano de Idiomas in Guanacaste, Costa Rica; the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid, Spain, and the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” in La Libertad, El Salvador.

At Norwich, she teaches the courses Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II, Advanced Spanish I and II, Hispanic Literature, the special topics classes U.S. Latinas/os and the Border, Music and Politics in Latin America, Contemporary Cuba, and La Hashtag nation.  Dr. Thomas is the founding organizer and chapter advisor of the Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honors Fraternity. She was named a faculty fellow for the Center for Global Resilience and Security in 2020. Her academic research, journalism, and op-ed writing has appeared in the Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, Global Learning, The Baltimore Sun, Ethnomusicology Review, and Public Radio International, among other outlets.

Ph.D. Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
M.A. Latin American & Spanish Language & Literature, New York University 
B.A. Hispanic Studies, Washington College 
B.A. Music, Washington College

SP 415 Border Narratives and the Search for "Nepantla"
SP 350 Music and Politics in Latin America
SP 350 La Hashtag Nation: Visual Activism in the Spanish-Speaking World

“El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented Experience”. Un-Disciplining Latinx Comics & Visual Cultures: Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Aesthetic Approaches. Forthcoming.

“Musical subterfuge: The Salvadoran Civil War”. Music: Resistance and Memory, edited by Asīm Murat Okur, Agora Dernegī, 2023, pp. 205-213.

“Using Memes to Carve a Space for Undocumented Latino/a Visibility and to Tackle Fossilized Myths”. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 3, 4, 2021, pp. 12-34.