Education:
Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature, University of Nebraska, 2007.
M.A. in Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Purdue University, 1995
B.A. in Spanish, University of Nebraska, 1993
Scholarly Activity:
Presented the following paper: "Beyond a Room of their Own: The Servant at the Center in the films The Maid and Live-in Maid" at the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 10-12, 2011.
Attended the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Toronto, Canada, Oct 6-9, 2010, and presented the following paper: "Double Agent Identity in Eugenio Aguirre's Gonzalo Guerrero".
Reviewed the proposed anthology of Spanish, Latin American and U.S. Latino literature: Redes Literarias by Bonnie Gasior and Mindy Badia, for Prentice Hall, April 2010.
Presented the following paper: "Double Agent Characters in Contemporary Fictionalizations of the Conquest: Carmen Boullosa's Duerme" at Southwest Council on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) Conference, Santa Fe, NM. March 2010.
Accepted for publication in Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature: Review of Embodying Resistance: Griselda Gambaro and the Grotesque. (Summer 2010 Issue)
Presented the following paper: "Double Agents in the Contemporary Latin American Historical Novel: Carlos Fuentes's El naranjo", at Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference, Provo, UT., April 2009.
Research Interests:
Contemporary Spanish American short fiction, theatre, essay. Film Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Historical Fiction.
Dissertation
My dissertation "Hidden Identity in the Contemporary Latin American Historical Novel: The Conquest Seen through the Eyes of Double Agent Characters" (complete text PDF) is available here.
Memberships
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Southwest Council on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters