In an interview reflecting abouton Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, award-winning novelist and English and Modern Languages Assistant Professor Claudia Salazar Jiménez explores explained his Super Bowl performance as a bold political act of joy, resistance and cultural pride. She noteds how the artist’s unapologetic embrace of Puerto Rican identity, migrant labor imagery and Spanish language challenged prevalent narratives of exclusion and redefined what “America” can mean on a global stage.

This interview was originally broadcast in Spanish by La Mula on February 9, 2026.