Dr. Claudia Cavallin is a Professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures at Oklahoma State University. She holds a Social Communication degree focusing on Humanistic Development, a Master of Science in Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and a Ph.D. in Spanish.

She was a professor at the University of Los Andes and the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. She has also been a professor at the University of Salamanca in Spain. She mentored and guided more than ten undergraduate and two graduate students. Dr. Cavallin was the director of the academic journal Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Venezuela). She continues her investigation into the literature and migration that define the production and dissemination of contemporary translations of Latin American literature.

Dr. Cavallin published the books Ciudades de película: Ficciones urbanas del cine, la literatura y la música (Editorial Académica Española) and Espectros de la palabra. La metáfora en Borges: los juegos del lenguaje que hacen posible la configuración de un universo de imágenes recursivas (Editorial Académica Española). She has worked tirelessly to promote Latin American voices in a range of print and digital media, including the online magazines World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today, and Trópico Absoluto, as well as in the Papel Literario of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, the magazine A Contracorriente, published in New Hampshire, and the magazine Carátula, published in Managua and Madrid. Dr. Cavallin also served as director of digital media for Carátula magazine and held the same position at Latin American Literature Today for several years.

Dr. Cavallin is a translator (English, Spanish, Italian,) and she is part of Colaboratorio Ávila. Colaboratorio Ávila is a translation collective formed by Katie Brown (University of Exeter), Claudia Cavallin (Oklahoma State University), María Gracia Pardo (University of Miami), and Raquel Rivas Rojas (The University of Edinburgh). Their objective is to let the Venezuelan accent and the Latin American viewpoint into every text, to build without betrayal, to accept sudden revelations, and to celebrate the results with laughter that crosses oceans. As a member of Colaboratorio Avila and independently, Dr. Cavallin has translated numerous interviews and recently published essays and poetry.

Between 2021 and 2025, Dr. Cavallin published over forty interviews in English and Spanish. A special mention of her interviews was published in the "Section of Venezuela Studies: The latest news, views, and announcements," November 2024 #28 of Latin American Studies Association LASA.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2021-2026 Spanish Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University, United States.

2023 Summer Professor. Spanish and English Professor at the Upward Bound Division of Access and Community Impact. Oklahoma State University, United States.

2020 Film and Media Studies Graduate, English Teaching Assistant, University of Oklahoma, United States.

2016–2021 Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, United States.

2015 (One Semester) Visiting Professor at the Department of Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain.

2006 –2021. Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University Simón Bolívar, Venezuela.

1997 – 2005. Associate Professor, Department of Social Communication, University of Los Andes, Venezuela.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

That student's letter is a precious treasure

Oklahoma State University. Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

SPAN- 2723 Intermediate Hispanic Culture and Media.

SPAN- 1713 Beginning Spanish. SPAN – 1813 Beginning Spanish (Continued).

LL - 1113 The World Through Film (HI) (English)

https://languages.okstate.edu/department/faculty/spanish/430-cavallin-claudia

Oklahoma State University. Summer 2023 English 1

English 2

Spanish 1 & 2

Upward Bound / Division of Access and Community Impact.

https://diversity.okstate.edu/departments/trio/upward-bound-program/upward-bound.html

The University of Oklahoma. Spring 2016 – Summer 2021

SPAN-3073 Grammar in Conversational Communication.

SPAN-3763 Spanish for Journalism.

SPAN- 3763 Medical Spanish.

SPAN-1115 Beginning Spanish.

SPAN-1225 Beginning Spanish (Continued).

https://www.ou.edu/cas/modlang/undergrad-programs/spanish

Universidad Simón Bolívar. Fall 2006 – Fall 2016

Language I

Language II

Language III

LLC-356 Imagined City. Urban Visions in Literature and Cinema.

Spring 2023 / Spring 2025

LL-8749 Tópicos Especiales. V. Periodismo y Literatura: La escritura dispersa entre las fronteras de América Latina.

PG-7766 Estudio Individual Dirigido II.

https://www.ll.usb.ve/inicio/personal-acad%C3%A9mico

Universidad de Los Andes.

Fall 1997 – Spring 2005

Cultural Journalism

Environmental Journalism

Theory of Journalism

Introduction to Journalism

http://www.saber.ula.ve/handle/123456789/9317

VISITING PROFESSOR

Periodismo y Literatura: la escritura dispersa entre las fronteras de América Latina POSTGRADO EN LITERATURA, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Valle de Sartejenas, Caracas, Venezuela. 2025.

Pensamiento II POSTGRADO EN LITERATURA, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Valle de Sartejenas, Caracas, Venezuela. 2024

DLC 1221-1 NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA, Doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana Contemporánea, Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile. 2023

Periodismo y Literatura: la escritura dispersa entre las fronteras de América Latina POSTGRADO EN LITERATURA, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Valle de Sartejenas, Caracas, Venezuela. 2023.

DLC 1221-1 NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA, Doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana Contemporánea, Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile. 2022.

DLC 1221-1 NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA, Doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana Contemporánea, Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile. 2021.

Espacios virtuales de investigación, registro y visibilidad. En Gestión crítica de la cultura. Fundamentos, herramientas y problemas. 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos. Ciudad de México, México. 2021.

Facciones políticas en la memoria audiovisual venezolana. En: Cátedra de Literatura Venezolana José Antonio Ramos Sucre. Universidad de Salamanca, España. 2021.

TRIO - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

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Connecting College to Life

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Oklahoma State University.

Summer 2023

English 1 / Professor Dr. Claudia Cavallin

English 2 / Professor Dr. Claudia Cavallin

Spanish 1 & 2 / Professor Dr. Claudia Cavallin

Upward Bound