Assistant Professor of Spanish

 Office: 450 AH

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Education

• Ph.D. Spanish – Tulane University (2004)
• M.A. in Spanish – Tulane University (1999)
• B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies – Tulane University (1996)

Teaching and Research Interests

• U.S.-Latino/a Studies
• U.S.-Mexico Border Studies
• Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture
• Latin American Cinema

Courses Taught

Graduate

• Mexican Cinema
• Mexican And Chicano/a Cultural Studies
• Mexican Transnationalism

Undergraduate

• Mexican Cinema
• Survey of Spanish American Literature II
• Contemporary Latin American Migration and Exile
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• US Hispanic Culture and Civilization
• Oral Communication in Spanish
• Spanish for Heritage Learners I

Selected Publications

• “Toward a Transnational Reading of Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diario de un mojado.” Aztlán 34.1 (2009): 13-34.
• “Luis Alberto Urrea” and “Ramón ‘Tianguis’ Pérez.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature Volume 2. Ed. Nicolás Kanellos. Westport: Greenwood Press.
• “Revista Generación: Regionalism and Migration in Tijuana and Chicago.” Latino Studies 5 (2007) 439–454.
• Co-authored with Teresa Soufas, et. al. "Playing with Saint Isabel: Drama from the Pen of an Unknown Adolescent."Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition, Ed. Lisa Vollendorf, Modern Language Association, 2001.
• “On the Outskirts of Mexico: María Novaro’s El jardín del edén.” Cinema Tropical (Newsletter). July-August 2001.

Affiliations

• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Phi Beta Delta
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
• The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)