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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 2026

Conversation and Communication in Spanish — HISP 303

History and Present of the Spanish Language — HISP 349

Fall 2026

Elementary Spanish II — HISP 102

Introduction to Spanish Linguistics — HISP 307

Notes

Yorki J. Encalada Egúsquiza Article Published in "±Ê´Ç±ô¾±´Ú´Ç²Ôí²¹"

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 . 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 ±Ê´Ç±ô¾±´Ú´Ç²Ôí²¹

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 ±Ê´Ç±ô¾±´Ú´Ç²Ôí²¹. 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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