Professor Mejía-Prado (Ph.D. in Spanish, Florida State University; BSc in Biology, Universidad Javeriana) is a Teaching Professor of Spanish. His research interests include topics from the natural sciences and humanities such as the relationship between nature and culture, specifically in riverine and indigenous communities in Amazonia. Professor Mejía-Prado uses both theory and field work in his research.

Research Interests

Environmental issues

Justice

History

Ecocriticism

Literature

Representation

Natural resources management

Relationship between nature and culture

Courses Taught

Environmental Stories from American Waters

Spanish phonetics

Introduction to Spanish Literature

Advanced Spanish Composition and Translation

Intermediate Spanish I & II

Elementary Spanish I & II

Selected Publications

• MEJIA-PRADO, DIEGO. 2022. Large fishes are gone in Amazonia. The Global South, Journal of the English Department at the University of Mississippi. Special issue: Eco-writing and Eco-art. Indiana University Press. Vol. 16:1.134-137.
• Calderón-González, Alejandro; Casas-Bello, Mauricio; MEJÍA-PRADO, DIEGO; Ospina-Calderón, Nhora; Laverde-Bohórquez, Emanuel. 2017. Epifitario: un Jardín dentro del Bosque. Proyecto Nueva Esperanza. Fotosíntesis: Colombia. 224 pages.
• MEJÍA-PRADO, DIEGO; Galeano, Juan Carlos; Ruíz-Abecasis, Herman. 2016. Amazonia: Looking for the earthly Eden, Finding the Planet’s next Landfill. In Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America, edited by Mark Anderson & Zélia M. Bora. Lexington Books. 257-269.
• MEJIA-PRADO, DIEGO; Calderón-González, Alejandro; Casas-Bello, Mauricio. 2012. Epífitas y Flora en Veda del Sistema de Transporte de gas Cupiagua-Cusiana. Guía Ilustrada de divulgación científica y ambiental. Fotosíntesis Investigación y Fotografía/Sistema de Transporte de gas Cupiagua-Cusiana. Bogotá, Colombia. 116 pages.
• MEJIA-PRADO, DIEGO; Calderón-González, Alejandro; Casas-Bello, Mauricio. 2011. Oleoducto Bicentenario. Guía Ilustrada de Las Plantas Epífitas, Tramo Araguaney Banadía. Fotosíntesis Investigación y Fotografía/Oleoducto Bicentenario. Bogotá, Colombia. 198 pages.
• Simon, Stacey A.; Zhai, Jixian; Nandety, Raja Sekhar; McCormick, Kevin P.; Zeng. Jia; Mejia-Prado, Diego; Meyers, Blake C. 2009. Short-read sequencing technologies for transcriptional analyses. Annual Review of Plant Biology 60:305-333.