New Cabell Hall 466

Office Hours: Mon & Wed 11:00am-12:00pm & by appt

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2024

M.A., Spanish as a Second Language, Universidad de Extremadura (2017)

B.A., Spanish Philology, Universidad de Extremadura (2016)

Research Interests

• Romanticism 
• Material Culture
• Galdós
• Spanish evolution 
• History of the Spanish Language
• Modern Latin American literature and culture
• Pedagogy

Teaching

SPAN 2010 - Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 2020 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 3010 - Grammar and Composition, 

SPAN 3300 - Texts and Interpretation,

Costa Rica Program, 2019

SLI - Summer language institute Spanish

Presentations

• “La mecanización social: el progreso femenino interpretado a través del uso de la máquina de coser” III Simposio de la asociación internacional de Galdosistas, Waco, November 2024.
• “La máquina de coser y su identidad cultural a través de la novela La Desheredada de Galdós” 77 th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, U of Kentucky, April 2024.
• “Entre lo tangible y lo intangible: Explorando la importancia de los objetos cotidianos en la novela Tormento de Galdós” Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2024. 
• “The Fascinating Legacy of the Manila shawl: Its Impact on 19th-Century Spanish Literature and Culture” 73rd MIFLC, Shenandoah University, Virginia, October 2023. 
• “Un paseo por España, conoce la Universidad de Extremadura” Go Global Event, East Central University, Oklahoma, October 2018
• “La enseñanza en ELE”, Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, East Central University, Oklahoma, September 2018.

Grants & Awards

Erasmus Programme, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy, 2014