New Cabell Hall 453
Office Hours: Wed & Fri 10:00-11:00am & remotely by appt

Education

PhD, Spanish, University of Virginia

MA, Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Spanish), University of Delaware

BA, Psychology and Spanish, University of Delaware

Publications

“El comportamiento del protagonista y la creación de la identidad nacional mexicana en La muerte de Artemio Cruz” in Camarena Castellanos, Ricardo, ed. Octavio Paz: laberintos del poeta y ensayista. 15 perspectivas críticas. Toronto: Antares Publishing, 2016.

Translations

My Beautiful Nicaragua. Dir. Joyce Chopra and Edelsin Linette Mendez. Films Bykids. PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 5 Feb. 2019, www.pbs.org/video/my-beautiful-nicaragua-o6lvm6/.

Conference Presentations

“21st Century Mexico City through Guadalupe Nettel’s El huésped.” Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 26-27, 2021.

“Terror contemporáneo: vulnerabilidad y dinámicas de poder en Fuerzas especiales de Diamela Eltit.” MIFLC, James Madison University, VA. October 2016.

“Defensa y promoción.” Collaboration with Michelet McLean, Matthew Richey, Astrid Lorena Ochoa, Karina Baptista and Gonzalo Hernández-Baptista. SALALM LXI, “Nuestro norte es el sur”: Mapping Resistance and Resilience in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies. University of Virginia, May 9 – 13, 2016. 

“Bologna-Duke Summer School on Global Studies and Critical Theory.” Seminar participant in classes, readings, and discussion sessions. University of Bologna, Italy. June 22-July 3, 2015.

“Effective Error Correction in Written Assessments in the Foreign Language Classroom: Spanish 2010.” Action Research in the Foreign Language Classroom: Graduate Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, USA, November 21, 2014.

“El comportamiento del protagonista y la creación de la identidad nacional mexicana en La muerte de Artemio Cruz.” Octavio Paz: Labyrinths of the Poet 2014: International Colloquium, Ottawa, Canada, March 28-29, 2014.

Invited Talks

“Muñecas, feminismos, y terror en las obras artísticas de intelectuales latinoamericanas.” Framingham State University, April 8, 2020.

“Space and Body in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture.” University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, February 2020.       

“Private Life and Public Spaces in the Works of Rosario Castellanos and the Film Los adioses [The Eternal Feminine].” SIP Film Festival: Contemporary Women’s Visions from Spain, Italy, and Latin America. University of Virginia, VA. September 27-30, 2018.             

Teaching

University of Virginia, Assistant Professor of Spanish, General Faculty, 2021-present

• SPAN4040   Translation from Spanish to English
• SPAN2020   Advanced Intermediate Spanish

University of Virginia, Instructor of Record, 2014-2021

• SPAN 3300     Texts and Interpretation, Summer 2021
• SPAN 3040     Business Spanish, Fall 2015; Spring 2016
• SPAN 3020     Writing and Composition II, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
•                         Topic: Writing for Social Justice and Change
• SPAN 3010     Writing and Composition I, Fall 2016; Spring 2017
• SPAN 2020     Advanced Intermediate Spanish, Fall 2017
• SPAN 2010     Intermediate Spanish Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Summer 2015; Summer 2017; Summer 2018; Summer 2019

University of Delaware, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2012-2014

• Advanced Spanish, Spring 2014
• Intermediate Spanish, Fall 2012; Fall 2013
• Intensive Advanced Spanish, Instructor of Record, Winter 2013 
• Writing Center Assistant Fall 2012; Spring 2014

Grants and Fellowships

ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship Research Grant, 2021

Bama Works Grant, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, 2021

The Equity Center Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2021– 2022

Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2019 – 2020  

Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation Grant, 2019                      

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship, 2017       

Office of the Dean Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2015                        

University of Delaware Graduate Fellowship, 2012 – 2014

ASPIRA Award of Excellence, 2006