Yamile has a varied teaching experience at the university level.
Here you can read the description of some of the courses she has taught at Washington University in St Louis which encompass different levels, languages and Departments.
Lead Instructor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
100B. Introduction to Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
(Spring 2022)
This introductory course seeks to explore the ways in which gender and sexual identities and practices are inherently shaped by intersecting structures of power, such as race, class, and nation both within the larger US society and across borders, from a hemispheric perspective. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach, we will read and discuss critical and creative work as well as analyze popular representations of gender and sexuality in artwork, film, literature, music, and poetry from across the Americas.
Lead Instructor, Spanish
360Y. Researching Cultures: Latin American Women Travelers
(Fall 2021)
When we talk about “adventurers,” “explorers,” or “travelers,” we tend to imagine them embodied in a masculine figure. In this course, we will focus on the limits of this idea of travel, analyzing travel as a gendered and racialized experience. Throughout the semester, we will study different types of mobility, travel and travel literature created by Latin American women from the nineteenth-century to the present, debunking the stereotypes of female immobility and immanence. From the Peruvian rabonas to the Mexican Revolution’s soldaderas, from pleasure trips to forced exiles, we will read and examine the writings of Flora Tristán, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Clarice Lispector, Circe Maia, Cristina Peri Rossi, Samanta Schweblin, Cristina Rivera Garza and Valeria Luiselli, among others. These different travelogues will serve as the basis for discussing the complexities of gender, race and social class in relation to travel, nation and literature. We will also discuss different theoretical approaches, seeking to deepen and enrich our academic writing in the Spanish language. In this course the students will write two short compositions and a final research composition on the topic of their choice, related to the course content. This course will have a strong, mandatory and graded written communications component and is taught in Spanish.
Lead Instructor, Portuguese
103. Elementary Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
(Spring 2021)
This course is designed for students who are fluent in Spanish and want to take advantage of this fluency in order to develop proficiency in Portuguese rapidly. Throughout the course, we will emphasize similarities and differences between the two languages in order to facilitate the learning process.
Lead Instructor, Spanish
202. Intermediate Spanish
(Fall 2019)
This intermediate level Spanish course has several goals: Improve students’ ability to comprehend spoken and written Spanish from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries; equip students with grammatical tools, vocabulary, and other strategies for communicating in Spanish orally and in writing; encourage students to explore/share aspects of Spanish and Latin American culture; and develop more advanced writing skills while focusing upon the composition process. One primary goal of Spanish 202 is to develop communicative competence, that is, your ability to communicate successfully and effectively in the language. More specifically, you will learn to communicate in more complex ways about your personal background, interests, and activities. You will also expand your ability to initiate and participate in conversations about other topics of interest such as technology, business and social problems. Knowledge of grammatical structures as well as vocabulary development will be crucial in this process. In addition, the course will equip you with strategies for reading and analyzing literature in Spanish.
Yamile Ferreira, PhD 