Position Title
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Appointments: http://calendly.com/cdh-ucd
Charlie Hankin specializes in music-literature relations in the twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean and Brazil. His research and teaching bring together sound studies and ethnomusicology, Afro-Latin American thought and poetics, hip hop studies, and comparative literature. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and recording collaboration in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, his book Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (UVA Press, 2023) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the MLA. He is editor of the dossier Words and Rhythm, Sound and Text (Latin American Literary Review, 2024). His current book project, “Writing in Clave,” proposes a rhythmic counterpoint between popular music and literature in the twentieth-century Caribbean.
Hankin has also taught, performed, and recorded as a professional violinist. In 2017, he recorded violin tracks and co-produced with Malcoms “Justicia” the Cuban hip hop album Sentimientos Desafinados, which was nominated for a CubaDisco award.
Education
PhD, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
MMus, Violin Performance, University of Oregon
BA, Spanish, Reed College
Books
Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (2023)
Writing in Clave: Caribbean Popular Music Poetics (In Progress)
Dossiers and Edited Volumes
Dossier: Words and Rhythm, Sound and Text. Latin American Literary Review, vol. 51, no. 102, 2024. Edited and introduction by Charlie D. Hankin)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Writing Cumbia Villera: Intermediality, Performance, and Neoliberalism in Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, forthcoming in 2024
"Ekphrasis and the Ear: Rita Indiana’s Conjuring Poetics.” MLN, vol. 138, no. 2, 2023, pp. 477–501. doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a915378.
“‘Enraizados da Letra’: Lyrics and the Letter in Brazilian, Cuban, and Haitian Rap.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 4, 2022, pp. 619–40. doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2021.2017270
“Presencia y performance: los cantares mexicanos frente al historicismo.” e-Spania: Revue interdisciplinaire d’études hispaniques médiévales et modernes, vol. 30, 2018, pp. 1–21. doi.org/10.4000/e-spania.28168
"Rap e conscientizção: o legado de Paulo Freire no hip-hop cearense.” Entrelaces vol. 1, no. 10, 2017, pp. 132–145
“The (Latin) American Underground: Havana and Marginocentric Hip Hop.” Atlantic Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 82–98. doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1233485
“Contrapunteo de Los Orishas y Los Aldeanos: El hip hop cubano dentro y fuera de la Revolución.” 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada, vol. 4, 2014, pp. 201–219
Book Chapters
“Son Poets: Caribbean Modernism’s Afro-Cuban Rhythmic Key.” (In Progress)
"Community Pedagogies: Rap Music in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy. Bloomsbury, 2024
"La Aldea: Martí, McLuhan y marginalidad en el hip-hop habanero.” In Isla diseminada: ensayos sobre Cuba, edited by Justo Planas et al., pp. 45–68. Hypermedia, 2022
Recording Collaborations
D-Fi Powèt Revòlte. R.O.D. Rhod over D-Fi, Evazyon Mizik, 2019.
D-Fi Powèt Revòlte. Kwonik on GetoYout. Evazyon Mizik, 2018. Violin.
Malcoms Justicia and Charlie Hankin. Sentimientos Desafinados. 18A16 Producciones, 2017. Violin and co-production. Nominated for CubaDisco Best Hip-Hop Album.
Honors and Awards
Díaz-Ayala Library Travel Grant, Florida International University (2024)
Critical Race Course Development Grant, Colby Arts & Humanities Center (2022)
Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Princeton University (2018)
Fulbright ETA, UFC / Universidade Aberta do Brasil, Fortaleza, Brazil (2015)
Courses
SPA 175. Rap en español
SPA 272. Aurality and Literacy: Key Words for Sound in Latin America