Aída Díaz de León

Biography

Courses Taught

• Beginning Spanish (SPAN 101 and 102)
• Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 201 and 202)
• Readings in Spanish Peninsular Cultures
• Hispanic Film
• What a Wonderful World: Being Human, Technology and Dystopia in Film (FYSM)
• Trek 2025: Documentary Film and History in Madrid (Summer 2025, co-director)

Selected Publications & Presentations

• "The Politics of the Past and the Fragmentary Present: Locating Memory in Spain and Latin America." Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance. Ed. AĂ­da DĂ­az de LeĂłn, Marina Llorente, and Marcella Salvi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 1 – 17.
• DĂ­az de LeĂłn, AĂ­da, Marina Llorente, and Marcella Salvi, eds. Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
• Rev. of Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America, ed. Marjorie AgosĂ­n. Rilce. Revista de FilologĂ­a HispĂĄnica 24 (Spring 2008): 428 – 432.

Independent Study Advising

Professional Affiliations

• Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

Production Credits

• Flamenco Dreams, co-director with Greg Shaya, Summer 2025 (Trek 2025: Documentary Film and History in Madrid)
• “Mnemo,” by Tzintzún Aguilar Izzo, Spring 2015 (Senior Honors Multi-Media Project, Spring 2015, Saint Lawrence University)