Dr. Kyrie Miranda Farnell
Assistant Professor
Spanish and French
Kyrie Miranda-Farnell is an Assistant Professor of French and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at ÌÇÐÄVLOG in Charleston, SC. She spent her youth in the Pacific Northwest, studying a variety of modern languages before she moved to New Orleans in early adulthood. There, she earned two BAs (Spanish and French) and two MAs (Romance Languages, with concentrations in Spanish and French) at the University of New Orleans. In 2020 she defended her dissertation, Encounters with Animals in the New World, earning her PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests are French and Spanish literature from the 11th-16th centuries, with a focus on animal imagery and representation, and ecocriticism. She currently resides in Hanahan, SC with her husband and three children.
Publications:
Miranda-Farnell, Kyrie. “Paradoxographical Descriptions of Caribbean Animals in Fray Ramón Pané’s Relación de las antigüedades de los Indios“. Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2023, pp. 60-77.
Miranda, Kyrie. “La relación entre los seres humanos y los animales en los escritos de Cristóbal Colón: una propuesta de enseñanza”. Más allá del mito y la epopeya: El PaÃs Vasco y la expedición Magallanes-Elcano en el contexto de la primera globalización. Fundación Elcano, 2022.
Miranda, Kyrie. “Cultural Salvage at Sea: El Caleuche and Myths from Chiloé Island.” Underwater Worlds: Submerged Visions in Science and Culture.” Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.Â
Degrees
B.A. French (University of New Orleans)
B.A. Spanish (University of New Orleans)
Academic Year Abroad (Université de Paris IV, La Sorbonne)
M.A. Romance Languages – Spanish (University of New Orleans)
M.A. Romance Languages – French (University of New Orleans)
Ph.D. Modern Foreign Languages and Literature – Hispanic Studies track (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)