Daniel Raso-Llarás holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from Temple University (2023). He joined the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics as a Lecturer in Spanish in 2025. Prior to OU, he taught at Hampden-Sydney College (2024–25) and Wake Forest University (2023–24). He also taught Spanish for a decade at Temple University, and, after immersion at the Middlebury Portuguese School, taught Portuguese for Spanish speakers on four occasions. In addition, he has designed and taught general education courses in English, including Latine Immigration, Race and Poverty in the Americas, and Latin American History through Media.
His research began with the picaresque tradition in early modern Spain and examines how that tradition has been preserved and reimagined in modern and contemporary Latin American literature. His dissertation, The Demise of the Picaresque: Dividual Narratives of the Neoliberal Marketplace in Brazil and Argentina (1881–2000), situates the picaresque within transatlantic and neoliberal contexts. His current work focuses on posthumanism and digitality, especially narratives of surveillance, dystopia, and new forms of subjectivity across Iberian and Latin American literature and media. He has published on Spanish, Brazilian, and Venezuelan authors in journals such as Hispanic Journal, Vernacular, and Cuadernos de ALDEEU, and he continues to present regularly at national and international conferences.
At OU, Dr. Raso-Llarás teaches Spanish at all levels—including Spanish for the Professions (medical, legal, business). He is a qualified medical interpreter (with the intention of becoming certified), has completed legal interpreter training, and is seeking registration as a court interpreter in the State of Oklahoma. His teaching emphasizes task-based and sociocultural approaches, bridging rigorous language study with real-world professional practice. He is active in professional associations including the American Translators Association, the Modern Language Association, the Brazilian Studies Association, and the Latin American Studies Association.
“Difference as a Foil to Otherness: Juan José Saer’s El entenado [The Witness] as a Post-picaresque character.” Submitted to Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (August 2025).
“Dark Picaresque and Proto-Liberal Ideology in Machado de Assis’s Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas [Epitaph of a Small Winner].” Hispanic Journal 45.2 (Fall 2024): 133–54.
“Doña Bárbara como ficción política en el imaginario venezolano: una perspectiva diacrónica.” Vernacular: New Connections in Languages, Literature and Culture 2.1 (Spring 2017): 1–21.
“El Don Quijote desmitificado: un sujeto del capitalismo primitivo.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU: Cervantes ilimitado. Cuatrocientos años del Quijote (Winter 2016): 13–28.
M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese, Temple University, 2015
B.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Literature, University of Zaragoza, 2012
Portuguese Language Certificate, Middlebury College Portuguese School, 2016
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1872-4659
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I0b13MwAAAAJ&hl=en
