Yorki J. Encalada Egúsquiza

  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of Study

Education

  • BA, Ashland University, 2010
  • MA, Cleveland State University, 2013
  • MA, University of Kentucky, 2016
  • PhD, University of Kentucky, 2020

Biography

Yorki Encalada earned a PhD at the University of Kentucky, where he specialized in Latin American literature, with an emphasis on contemporary Latinx & Chicanx literature and cultural studies. His academic research focuses on the representations of border women and gendered violence along the Mexican-U.S. American border in literary production from both sides of the border.

Spring 2025

Conversation and Communication in Spanish — HISP 303

History and Present of the Spanish Language — HISP 349

Fall 2025

Elementary Spanish II — HISP 102

Women on the Move: Migrant Women’s Voices at the Mexican-U.S. American Border — HISP 455

Notes

Yorki J. Encalada Egúsquiza Article Published in "Polifonía"

February 5, 2025

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Yorki J. Encalada Egúsquiza's article "Desarrollo de una nueva consciencia mestiza a través de la valoración del arte comunitario fronterizo en la narrativa de Roberta Fernández" was published in Polifonía. The article explores how female solidarity and community border art expands Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of mestiza consciousness and its traditional identity crisis focus.

Yorki Encalada Egúsquiza publishes article in journal Polifonía

December 17, 2020

Yorki Encalada Egúsquiza, faculty in residence at La Casa Hispánica and lecturer in Hispanic Studies, published "El Bildungsroman femenino catalano-marroquí en El último patriarca (2008)" in the scholarly journal Polifonía. The article studies how Moroccan-Catalan author Najat El Hachmi constructs a transnational Bildungsroman to highlight her protagonist's Catalan identity.

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