EDUCATION
PhD, University of Notre Dame (2010) Spanish American and Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies Dissertation title: “Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda: Un análisis del discurso autobiográfico y la sensibilidad social en su obra temprana”
BA, Tufts University (2000), cum laude Majors: International Relations and Spanish. Minor: Latin American Studies
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (Selected)
Fund for Teachers Grant, Summer 2018. Santiago, Chile. External professional development grant to develop and implement curriculum on Latin American Indigenous Cultures.
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Core Fulbright US Scholar Program, 2015 – 2016. Instituto de Letras, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Field research for book project: “Folklore and the Narrative Tradition in Latin American and Luso-African Literature.”
Edward M. and Ann Uhry Abrams Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, 2009-2010. Dissertation completion fellowship: “Vigencia de la vida y obra de Pablo Neruda.”
Graduate Student Professional Development Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), Notre Dame, Winter Intersession 2008-09. For dissertation related research and travel.
Luso-American Development Foundation, Research Seed Grant, Summer 2008. “Imagining and Remembering the Dictator: Representations of Salazar During and After the Estado Novo.”
Fulbright US Student Fellowship Program, Dissertation Fellowship. University of Chile and Pablo Neruda Foundation, Santiago, Chile, 2006 – 2007. Dissertation field research.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Ford Foundation and The National Academies, 2004. Honorable Mention.
Tinker Pre-Dissertation Travel Award, Tinker Foundation, Winter Intersession 2003 – 2004. For dissertation related research and travel.
Minority Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, 2003 – 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
“La figura del intelectual estudiantil en el contexto contemporáneo: la FECh, Claridad y el compromiso creciente de Neruda en los años veinte.” A contracorriente 12.3 (Spring 2015): 105-37.
“Crear y ser creado: poesía y autobiografía en Pablo Neruda.” Revista Iberoamericana. 79.244-245 (jul-dic 2013): 665-83.
“The Role of Folklore in Pepetela’s Historiography of Angola.” Luso-Brazilian Review. 49.1 (Summer 2012): 27-45.
Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de. Roots of Brazil. Trans. G. Harvey Summ. Ed. Daniel E. Colón. Foreword by Pedro Meira Monteiro. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. [Reviewed by Robert Patrick Newcomb in Ellipsis: The Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association 12 (2014): https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/234]
“Orlando Mason y las raíces del pensamiento social de Pablo Neruda.” Revista Chilena de Literatura 79: Número especial dedicado a Pablo Neruda (Septiembre 2011): 23-45.
“Analysis of the Narrative Structure and Style of O Manual dos Inquisidores: An Allegory of the Salazar Dictatorship in Portugal.” Hispanófila 163 (September 2011): 63-78.
“Recado ‘confidencial’ sobre Pablo Neruda.” In Confidencias de grandes amistades: Cartas de Gabriela Mistral a Eduardo Barrios y otros textos mistralianos. Ed. José Anadón. México, D.F.: Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, 2011. 145-62.
PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
“The Postmodern Narrator in Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s Zero.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). San Diego, CA. July 10, 2019.
“Folklore and Narrating Brazil’s Cacao Boom.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Washington, DC. May 31, 2013.
“Samba and Son: The Formation of National Identity in Brazil and Cuba.” Atlantic World Literacies: Before and After Contact. An International, Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic World Research Network. UNC Greensboro. Oct 7-9, 2010.
“The Writer’s Life: Manuscripts, Correspondence and Publication of Latin American Writers.” Contribution on Pablo Neruda letters dated September 3, 1956 to June 6, 1966. Exhibition in The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the University of Notre Dame Library. Notre Dame, IN. Feb 12, 2007 to May 21, 2007.
“The Role of Folklore in Pepetela’s Historiography of Angola.” Presented at Entralogos 2006: Turns, Returns, Detours: (Hi)story and (Re)presentation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Feb 10-11 2006.
“Miguel Torga and the Salazar Dictatorship: One Portugal, Two Visions.” Presented at the 6th Annual TROPOS Graduate Student Conference. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Nov 5, 2005.
“La poesía política de Pablo Neruda en su centenario.” Presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Feb 19-20, 2005.