Jhonn Guerra-Banda

Jhonn Guerra Banda is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Berea College. He received his Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. His research examines masculinities, gender dissidence, and transgressive identities in contemporary Latin American literature and film, with particular attention to how cultural production reshapes debates around sexuality, nation, race, and power.

His work engages writers and filmmakers who challenge normative constructions of masculinity in the Americas. He has published on Peruvian, Mexican, and transnational cultural production, situating literary and visual narratives within broader political and aesthetic contexts. He is currently developing a book project on masculinities and transgression in Latin American narrative after 1999.

At Berea College, he teaches courses in Spanish language, advanced grammar and composition, literary and cultural analysis, and Latin American studies. His teaching integrates textual analysis with community engagement and invites students to approach language not only as structure but as a critical practice and a tool for cultural interpretation and social responsibility.