DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Marta Agüero Guerra holds a PhD in Hispanic Applied Linguistics from the University of Salamanca, and a PhD in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Iowa. Her areas of interest include humor studies, multimodality, pragmatics, and second/foreign language pedagogy. Her research explores multimodal narratives that comment on contemporary political and social realities in the Spanish-speaking world. Her articles have been published in national and international journals and she has presented at various conferences both in the United States and in Europe. She is the author of Representaciones de la infancia en el comic: de la nostalgia al compromiso social (University of Leon Press, 2023).

Before joining Northwestern, she taught Spanish as a foreign language in Spain and at different institutions in the United States. Her teaching experience includes language courses at all levels across the curriculum. She has also created and taught several graduate seminars on humor and intercultural competence, pragmatics, graphic novels, and childhood and nostalgia. In addition to teaching, she has been an academic advisor for Spanish majors and minors, she has participated in multiple committees, and she has been involved in the development of service-learning programs and Open Educational Resources (OER).