Courses taught:

• SPAN 201 (Second Semester Spanish)
• SPAN 310 (Composition)
• SPAN 322 (Hispanic Popular Culture)
• SPAN 361 (Introduction to Literary Analysis I)
• SPAN 362 (Introduction to Literary Analysis II)
• SPAN 480G (Spanish-American Women Writers)
• SPAN 431 (Peninsular Literature to 1700)
• SPAN 480G (Bandits and Pirates in Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Lit)
• SPAN 441 (Colonial Literature)
• SPAN 462 (Teaching Methodology)
• SPAN 441 (Literature of the Conquest)
• SPAN 402/503 (Creative Writing in Spanish)
• SPAN 455 Mexican Cinema
  

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Fall 2002-Spring 2003. Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Courses taught:

• SPAN 101 (First Semester Spanish)
• SPAN 203 (Spanish Readings)
• SPAN 359 (Advanced Composition)

Fall 2001- Spring 2002. Lecturer. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. UT Austin.

• SPN 325 (Introduction to Spanish American Literature since Modernism)
• SPN 327 (Advanced Grammar and Composition)
• SPN 318 (Conversation and Composition)

Fall 1995-Spring 2001; Fall 1989-Spring 1991. Assistant Instructor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Texas at Austin. Instructor of record.
Taught all levels of elementary and intermediate Spanish

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures, University of Texas at Austin. 2001.
• Master of Arts, Institute of Latin American Studies, UT Austin. 1991.
• B.S.S.W., cum laude, Adelphi University, New York. 1984.

ACADEMIC RANK

• Assistant Professor of Spanish. Department of Modern Languages,
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 2003- present.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Literature of Spanish-America from independence through 1940; Afro-Hispanic literature; gender and cultural studies; and interest in Latin American cinema.
• Dissertation Title—Novel Women: Gender and Nation in Two Nineteenth-Century Novels by Spanish-American Women Writers
• Director: Naomi Lindstrom

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

• “La figura del afrodescendiente mexicano en Astucia o los hermanos de la hoja o los contrabandistas de la rama (1865-66) de Luis Gonzaga Inclán (1816-1875) PALARA 8 (Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association) (Fall 2004): 35-44.
• “(Des)orden en el porfiriato: la construcción del bandido en dos novelas desconocidas del siglo XIX mexicano.” www.decimononica.org. 4.2 (Summer 2007): 77-94.
• Submitted to Letras femeninas. “La sexualidad femenina masoquista y su congruencia social en Geographies of Home (1999) de Loida Martiza Pérez.”

CREATIVE WORK IN REFEREED JOURNALS

• “La herida.” The World’s Muse: A Journal of Creative Writing in World Languages. 5.1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 31-37. Short story.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Roy-Féquière, Magali. Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico. Philadelphia: Temple UP. 2004. 310pp. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 39.1 (January 2005)
• Royo, Amelia. Juanamanuela, mucho papel. Salta: Ediciones del Robledal, 1999. Chasqui. 31.2 (November 2002).

ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS

• “Barragán de Toscano, Refugio.” Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. London: Tayor & Francis, 2009. (forthcoming)
• “Campesino, Pilar.” Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. London: Taylor & Francis, 2009. (forthcoming)

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Book Project: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Women Writers and the National Imagination
• Journal article project: “La excepcionalidad y el privilegio autorizante discursivo en las Memorias (1980) de Concepción Lombardo de Miramón”

POSTDOCTORAL INSTITUTES AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

• 2006 Tepoztlán Summer Institute in Tepoztlán México. July 26-August 2. Yale University and U of Georgia, Athens, organizers.
• 2003 NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers. “Afro-Hispanic Writers and the Canon.” The University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Marvin A. Lewis, Director. June16-July 25, 2003.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS PENDING

• “Reading Avellaneda’s Lips: Sab’s Subjugated Subjectivity” paper to be presented at the Modern Languages Association in Chicago. Dec. 27-30, 2007.

INVITED SPEAKER

• “The Culture of the Bolero and the Tango.” Performance Arts Society of Acadiana. October 3, 2007. Lafayette, Louisiana.
• “The Taking of Reforma: Civil Disobedience and the Mexican Presidential Elections of 2006.” Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, November 3, 2006.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

• “La excepcionalidad y el privilegio autorizante discursivo en las Memorias (1980) de Concepción Lombardo de Miramón (México, 1835-1921)” LASA, Montreal 2007.
• “Historia y género en La hija del bandido (1887) de Refugio Barragan de Toscano,” LASA, San Juan 2006.
• “La masculinidad africana desarticulada en Malambo de Lucía Charún-Ilescas.” Symposium on Transnational Identities: Afro-Hispanic Literature of European Exile.
  University of Missouri-Columbia April 14-16, 2005.
•  “From La Charca (1894) to La Llamarada (1935): the Creation and Contestation of a Truncated National Identity.” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference University of Louisville February 24-26, 2005 Louisville, KY.
• “La sexualidad femenina masoquista y su congruencia social en Geographies of Home (1999) de Loida Martiza Pérez” La CHISPA- LSU February 19-21st, 2004.
  Baton Rouge, LA
• “El vientre esclavizado en Malambo de Lucía Charún Illescas”
  III Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispáncia, March 2004. Lima Peru.
• “Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera’s anti-naturalist prologue”
  Modern Languages Association December 2003. San Diego, CA.
• “Narratives of Insanity: The Spin on Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Descent into Madness.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures October 2001.
  University of Kansas.
• "Ternura/Tortura, ciencias/creencias: significación y desviación en la fe de erratas en un texto decimonónico mexicano."Interruptions Conference May 2000. Harvard University.

AWARDS

• Liberal Arts Summer Research Award 2006, University of Louisiana at Lafayette