College of Medicine

Job Description

Yolany Martínez Hyde is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine. She teaches Medical Spanish courses and serves as the advisor for the Latino Medical Student Association.

 

Biosketch

Prior to joining the faculty at Florida State University School of Medicine, Dr. Hyde taught Spanish language and culture courses at the University of Oklahoma for over nine years. She has also taught Spanish to native speakers at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, and English as a Second Language at Centro Universitario Tecnológico in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Her educational background includes Spanish Linguistics and Literature, Foreign language acquisition, as well as History of Latin America of the XX and XXI centuries. Her research interests bridge the fields of Hispanic Studies with Social History. Her dissertation, Paradigms in Postmodern Literature in Central American Authors: Fictional Testimony, Historiographic Memory and Social Commitment, examines the culture of violence, the construction of postwar collective memory, and the literary transition into a more diverse fictional platform. Her work provides an in-depth analysis of the most widely read authors of the Central American region. Other research interests include the crime novel, poetry written by Latin American women in the early XX century, and contemporary Latin American poetry. Dr. Hyde has attended several international, national, and regional conferences on literature throughout her academic career.

As a poet, she has published three poetry books: Fermentado en mi piel (2004), Fermented in my skin; Este sol que respiro (2011) The sun I breath; and Espejos de arena (2013), Mirrors of sand. Among the topics that her poetry explores are the body as a social and a personal construction, and the city as a subject. Her work also depicts social inequality in which children are one of the most vulnerable social groups. Her work has been considered in different anthologies and digital magazines.

 

Education

University of Oklahoma Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature Dissertation: “Paradigmas en la literatura posmoderna en autores centroamericanos: Ficcionalización del testigo, memoria historiográfica y compromiso social” (Paradigms in Postmodern Literature in Central American Authors: Fictional Testimony, Historiographic Memory and Social Commitment). Advisor: Dr. A. Robert Lauer Co-Chair: Dr. Ryan F. Long Cognate Fields: Latin American History, Anthropology, Literary Criticism.	2016
The University of Oklahoma Master in Hispanic Literature	2011
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras Bachelor in Letters: Spanish Linguistics and Literature	2007
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán Bachelor in Teaching English as a Second Language	2004

 

Service

President-elect (2023-2025), Southwest Council of Latin American Studies

Advisor, FSUCOM Latino Medical Student Association

 

Honors/Awards

First Place at the KGE First Annual Poetry Night for the poem “Birds of Shadow.” University of Oklahoma	2015
Latin American Studies Association Travel Grant. LASA	2015
Robertson Travel Grant. University of Oklahoma	2012
Arts and Sciences Scholarship. University of Oklahoma	2009
First Place at the Creative Writing Award “Arturo Martínez Galindo” for the short story “El viaje.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras	2001

 

Memberships

Modern Language Association (MLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)

 

Research Focus

Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, with an emphasis on Central American contemporary writers.

 

Publications

1. “Metafiction and Detection como ejes dramáticos en Caballeriza.” The SCOLAS Journal, vol. 3, 2018, pp. 79-90.
2. “Historia, memoria colectiva y violencia política en La sirvienta y el luchador de Horacio Castellanos Moya.” (Submitted for publication)
3. “La estética de la imposibilidad en Crónicas para sentimentales y El asesino melancólico” (Forthcoming)

Creative Writing

1. Espejos de arena. Ciudad de Guatemala: Letra Negra, 2013.
2. Este sol que respiro. Tegucigalpa: Pez dulce, 2011.
3. Fermentado en mi piel. Tegucigalpa: Pez dulce, 2006.