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Meet Geoff Guevara-Geer

  • Postdoctoral work: Northwestern University
  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
  • M.A., Pennsylvania State University
  • B.A., Ripon College

At Ripon College, I’m the Latin Americanist who works with literature. Because we’re small, I teach a very broad range of courses from our beginning language sequence to our culminating courses in literature from Spanish America. I often teach advanced writing in Spanish, and return to teaching favorite writers–like Cortázar, Peri Rossi, García Márquez, and Luiselli. I love seeing how cultures self-define, while being transformed, through their artists. I also enjoy returning to favorite problems, like issues of magical realism, the political engagements of artists, and indigenous representation. Many ideas and expressions start out as abstractions, and then show themselves at work in how we face the world, and each other.


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I think we forget that writing is a technology.

What tech tool could you not live without?

I think we forget that writing is a technology.

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I push for high-quality work in the classroom, but I do believe that some things are worth doing badly.

What is something your students would be surprised to learn about you?

I push for high-quality work in the classroom, but I do believe that some things are worth doing badly.

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A colleague once described my workspace as

What’s your workspace like? 

A colleague once described my workspace as “that cyclone you call your office.”



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Geoff Guevara-Geer

Geoff Guevara-Geer publishes article in journal Chasqui

Geoff Guevara-Geer, associate professor of Spanish, had an article published in the November 2021 issue of the journal Chasqui, meaning an Inca messenger, in Volume […]

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Ripon College Jazz Ensemble to perform fall concert Dec. 8

The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will perform its fall concert Friday, Dec. 8. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. […]

Jazz Ensemble performs Friday, April 24

The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble, under the director of Professor of Music Kurt Dietrich, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24. The concert will […]