Education:

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)
M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2022
M.A., Creative Writing, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016
B.S., Psychology, Carlos Albizu University, 2015
A.S., Social Sciences, Essex County College, 2013

Research Interests:

• 20th-21st Century Caribbean and Latinx Arts and Literatures
• Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Visual Culture and Performance Studies
• Feminist Cartographies and Cultural Geography
• Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity Studies

Presentations:

• “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2022.

• “The Power of Images: Learning Culture with Visual Texts in the Contemporary L2 Classroom,” Institute of World Languages Roundtable Series. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. November 2021.

Teaching:

SPAN 3010 – Grammar and Composition I: Fall 2022

SPAN 2010 – Intermediate Spanish: Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Professional Development:

Participant – PhD+ Graduate Instructor Seminar on the Teaching of Writing. University of Virginia, August 1-4, 2022.

Service:

GSAS Student Council Representative – Academic year 2022-2023

SIP Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee – Academic Years 2021-2023

Grants, Fellowships and Awards:

• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts and Cultures, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Dean’s Diversity Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Del Greco Annual Essay Prize, Honorable Mention for “Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures,” Department of Spanish Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. May 2022.
• Del Greco Annual Essay Prize for “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. May 2021.
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Virginia, Fall 2020.
• Master’s Final Project Distinction of Excellence, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016.
• Distinguished Student Medal, Carlos Albizu University, 2015.
• Dominican Heritage Student Grant, Carlos Albizu University, 2014.