Janine Santiago Santiago
janine.santiago@upr.edu
Office #AJBR 220
Extension # 88868
Janine Santiago is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the College of General Studies, UPR-RP. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Letters from the University of New York at Buffalo, with a specialization in American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the UPR-RP. Throughout her career, she has taught all levels of English, from introductory language courses to advanced literature seminars. She currently teaches Intermediate English I & II (INGL 3103- 3104) and Women of Color Writers in English (INGL 3297), a semester course that fulfills the General Studies Literature Requirement and examines race, gender, resistance, and political voice through literature, music, and media.
Dr. Santiago has served as an Academic Senator representing the College of General Studies in the Academic Senate and as a member of the University Administrative Board, where she represented both the Academic Senate and the University Professors of the Río Piedras Campus. In 2023-2024, she served as Co-Director of Tiznando el País: Visualidades y Representaciones, a research project devoted to the study of Afro Puerto Rican visualities, cultural memory, and representation. She has published articles on gender and literary studies and her ongoing research explores the intellectual and activist contributions of Puerto Rican nationalist women, with particular attention to figures such as Julia de Burgos and Laura Meneses de Albizu Campos. Currently she is conducting research on innovative pedagogical approaches to the teaching of English as a Second Language within the context of Puerto Rican higher education.