Assistant Professor
Jackman Humanities Building, room 536
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Early Modern Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
Areas of Interest
- Colonial literature and culture;
- Medieval literature and culture;
- Yucatec Mayan cultural production;
- Translation / adaptation;
- Trans-Atlantic cultural exchange;
- Latin American Studies;
- Postcolonial theory;
- Pedagogy;
- Intercultural skills development;
- Professional skills development
Biography
Paula Karger is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, of Latin American Studies and Spanish. Her research focuses on cultural exchange, specifically between Arabic, Spanish, and Yucatec Mayan in the medieval and colonial periods. She also studies the impact of experiential learning and global classrooms on the development of intercultural skills as part of her work as an educational developer. She is the co-author, with Victor Rivas, of "Abiayala, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Teaching: Reflections From Turtle Island", included in Teaching Indigenous Studies in and of Latin America (MLA Teaching Series, forthcoming) and the co-editor of A Concise Companion to World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2025).
Education
PhD, University of Toronto