• PHD Romance Studies, University of Texas at Austin 2007
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 25%-49%
Languages:
• Catalan-Valencian-Balear (native/bilingual proficiency) • French (limited working proficiency) • Italian (professional proficiency) • Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Hybrid genres and gender studies; contemporary transatlantic studies; redefinition of national identities, exoticism and representations of otherness
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Spain (country of origin), Mexico • 2013 Invited judge poetry contest, Burton Magnet Elementary School, Durham • 2013 Invited speaker “Latino Leaders Section”: Hola North Carolina Fox 50 TV • 2013 Invited guest: “Platiquemos” Radio Show WCOM 103.5 FM • 2013-2017 NC Latin American Film Festival
Distinctions:
• 2014-2014 Buchan Award • 2014-2014 College of Arts & Sciences Travel Funds • 2013-2013 Spanish Film Club Award, PRAGDA • 2012-2012 CAS Travel Funds
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
n/a
Relevant Courses Taught:
• SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish • SPAN 260 Introduction to Latin American and Spanish Literature
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Josefina Vicens: Una Olvidada del Canon,” Dossier Josefina Vicens. Literatura contemporánea en español. Fundaciópn Mapfre, Proyecto web. FORTHCOMING
• 2017 “Teaching How to Make a Novel (1927) and its Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Autobiographical Metafictions.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, ed. Luis Alvarez-Castro. New York: Modern Language Association. FORTHCOMING
• 2016 “Literatura” sections for Anda: Curso Intermedio, 3E (LeLoup, Cowell, Heining-Boynton) Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
• 2016 “De Macondo a San Salvador: la recepción crítica en España de la Obra de Horacio Castellanos-Moya,” in Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo. M Caña Jiménez and V Venkatesh, eds. Albatros.
• 2015 “Juan José Millás,” in Contemporary Literary Criticism Series 390. Gale.
• 2014 “Transatlantic Revisions of the Conquest in Inma Chacón’s La Princesa India,” in Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico. Literary and Cultural Inquiries. University of Arizona Press.
• 2012 “Cuando la amistad vive en la ficción: las autobiografías excéntricas de Sergio Pitol y Enrique Vila-Matas,” in Revista Mexicana de Literatura Contemporánea 59.
• 2012 “Contestatory Fairytales and Liminal Spaces in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth,” in Revista de Humanidades 31.
• 2012 “Disidencias Literarias en París no se Acaba Nunca de Enrique Vila-Matas,” in Enrique Vila-Matas: Espejos de la Ficción. Eón.
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