• PHD English and Comparative Literatures, Harvard University 1997
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 25%-49%
Languages:
• French (elementary proficiency) • Latin (elementary proficiency) • Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Latina/o literature, culture, and theory; late-eighteenth to late-twentieth century U.S. literature; visual studies, typology, and the construction of identity in Anglo, Spanish, and Latina/o literatures and cultures; Narrative, photography, and film; Gender, performance, and queer studies
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas experience: Puerto Rico, Spain • WUNC-TV; WCHL-Radio • Director, Hispano-Latin American-Jewish Discussion Group
Distinctions:
• 2015-2015 Excellence in Graduate Student Advocacy Award from the Comparative Literature and English Association of Graduate Students • 2014-2014 Recognition Award for Faculty Diversity, Achievement, and Success • 2012-2012 Faculty Diversity Award for promoting equity on campus • 2005-2005 Alternate for the Kauffman Faculty Fellowship • 2005-2005 University Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching • 2004-2004 UNC-CH Spray-Randleigh Fellowship for Junior Faculty • 2004-2004 Faculty Fellowship at the UNC Institute for The Arts and Humanities • 2003-2003 University Research Council Research Grant • 1989-1999 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1989, 1990, 1998, and 1999
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
13
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ENGL 685 Literature of the Americas • ENGL Imagining the Americas
Recent Publications:
• 2018 Understanding John Rechy. University of South Carolina Press. FORTHCOMING
• 2016 “Four Contemporary Latina/o Writers Ghost the U.S. South” in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South, eds. B Ladd and F Hobson.
• 2015 “Critique of Enwhitened idealism: Miguel Algarín's 'Nuyorican Angels' of Night.” Body Signs: The Body in Latina/o Cultural Production. Ed. Astrid Fellner. The University of Vienna. Forthcoming.
• 2015 Americana in Dependence: Spain in Anglo-American Culture. University of Minnesota Press forthcoming
• 2014 “Mute Figuration of Minikins” in Mujeres Talk. Ohio State University.
• 2012 “Una herida abierta: Free Trade’s Bloody Transnational Flows in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood,” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporanea. 2012
• 2012 Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night. Indiana University Press.
• 2010 “‘Darkness, my night’: The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Aesthetics of the Shadow.” In Bridging: How and Why Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own. University of Texas Press 2010
• 2005 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2005.
• 2004 “The Already Browned Skin of 'American' Modernism: Rane Arroyo's Pale Ramón.” Midwestern Miscellany. 2004.
• 2003 “Cosmetizing the American Dream in South Side Chicago: Ana Castillo's 'La Miss Rose.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 2003.
• 2002 'La historica noche de deseo:recuperando una comunidad "queer" en El dia de la luna de Graciela Limon,' in Revista Iberoamericana, special issue edited by Frances Aparicio and Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, Fall 2002. 2002
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