EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Spanish Literature. Penn State University, 2004.
Master of Arts in Spanish. University of Delaware, 1997
Licenciatura in English Philology. Universidad de Granada (Spain), 1995.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Spanish. Lawrence University, 2018 – present.
Director of Advising. Lawrence University, 2016 – 2020.
Chair, Department of Spanish, Lawrence University, 2011 – 2019.
Associate Professor of Spanish. Lawrence University, 2009 – 2018.
Assistant Professor of Spanish. Lawrence University, 2002 – 2009.
PUBLICATIONS
“Affect, Spectacle, and Horror in Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem.” Negotiating Space in Latin America. Ed. Patricia Vilches, Brill, 2020. Book chapter. Print and online.
“Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven and the Ethics of Latin American Melodrama.” Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes. Ed. Patricia Vilches, Palgrave McMillan, 2018. 89-102. Book chapter. Print and online.
Estudios de cine latinoamericano actual. Revista Internacional d’Humanitats (RIH), 29 (Sep-Dec 2013). Edited volume. Print and online.
“Cuerpo, mirada y género en la película La teta asustada de Claudia Llosa.” Revista Internacional d’Humanitats (RIH), 29 (Sep-Dec 2013). 53-62. Journal article. Print and online.
“Cuerpo, transición y nación en Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera de Eduardo Mendicutti.” Una ética de la libertad: La narrativa de Eduardo Mendicutti. Ed. José Jurado Morales, Visor, 2012. 83-96. Book chapter. Print.
“Transexualidad e identidad nacional en la narrativa de Eduardo Mendicutti y Pedro Lemebel.” NRP: Nueva Revista del Pacífico (2008): 181-193. Journal article. Print.
Escritores catalanes en la frontera. La narración novelística en castellano de la identidad catalana contemporánea. Valparaíso: Universidad de Playa Ancha Press, 2007. Book, non-fiction. Print.
“Mía o de naiden: La reescritura de la violencia en ‘Pasión de historia’ de Ana Lydia Vega.” Hispanic Review 75.1 (Winter 2007): 47-60. Journal article. Print.
PRESENTATIONS
“Mater Dolorosa and Political Melodrama in Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers and Iciar Bollain’s Maixabel.” XXX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Seville, Spain. June 27-29, 2022.
“The Legacy of Miguel de Unamuno.” AP Spanish Literature and Culture Master Lecture Series. 2021.
“Alfonso Cuarón’s Film Roma and the Ethics of Nostalgia in the Netflix Era.” XXIV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Valencia, Spain. 26-28 June 2019.
“Masculinity and Crisis in Contemporary Spanish Cinema.” XVIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica (CILH). San Sebastián, Spain. July 6-8, 2016
“Globalization in Latin American Cinema: Old Borders, New Spaces.” Lunch at Lawrence Lecture Series. November 8, 2013
“Body, Gaze and Gender in the Peruvian-Spanish Film The Milk of Sorrow.”MACHL 2012, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 12-14 October 2012
“Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): The International Brigades and the Wisconsin Connection.” Winchester Academy. Waupaca, September 2011
“Immigrant Women in Contemporary Spanish Film.” Mid America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Kansas. October 2009
“Mujer y nación: multiculturalismo y feminismo en la narrativa caribeña y peninsular de entre siglos.” XVII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Sevilla (Spain), October 2007
“Modelos de mujer en la España de Almodóvar: De ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984) a Volver (2006).” 2007 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Madison, October 2007
“Foreign Language Learning Meets the 21st Century.” Alumni College. Lawrence University. 2007
“Mujeres de bandera: Transiciones y disidencias ‘sexo-políticas’ en la narrativa de Eduardo Mendicutti, Almudena Grandes y Lucía Etxebarria.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 2007
“Jorge Luis Borges’ Collected Fictions.” Freshman Studies Lecture. Lawrence University. 2006-2011
“Dictadores y travestis: Transexualidad, memoria e identidad nacional en Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera de Eduardo Mendicutti (España, 1982) y Tengo miedo torero de Pedro Lemebel (Chile, 2001).”. MMLA Conference. Milwaukee, November 2005
“Hispanic Identities”. Panel presentation. Ripon College. October 2005
“La construcción narrativa de la identidad individual y cultural en El amante bilingüe (1990) de Juan Marsé.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, April 2005
“Orientalism in Hispanic Studies.” Edward Said’s Intellectual Legacy. Main Hall Forum Series. Lawrence University, May 2004
“Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y la conciencia crítica de la oligarquía catalana en El hombre de mi vida.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, April 2004
“Internet-based Communicative Tasks in the Foreign Language Classroom.” WAFLT: Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference. Appleton, November 2003
“Women, Nation and Narration in the Contemporary Spanish Novel”. Mortar Board’s Lecture Series. Lawrence University, May 2003.
“Mujeres al borde: Lengua, identidad y esquizofrenia cultural en La intimidad de Nuria Amat.” Cincinnati Annual Conference of Romance Languages. University of Cincinnati, May 2003
“Eduardo Mendoza y la contrasaga de la burguesía barcelonesa.” The Carolina Conference of Romance Languages. University of North Carolina, March 2003
“¿Postmodernidad o neomodernidad? La ambigüedad ética de la escritura en Beatus Ille de Antonio Muñoz Molina.” The Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures. University of Kansas, October 2001
“Malena es un nombre de tango: Genealogía, lenguaje y subversión.” Fifth Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania, March 1999
La construcción del yo lírico en Garcilaso y Quevedo: Los sonetos amorosos y el ciclo “A Lisi sola”. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Graduate Symposium. Penn State University, November 1998
INSTITUTES AND WORKSHOPS
Lead Presenter. “The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam.” AP Higher Education Regional Symposium. Stanford University. February 28, 2020.
Co-Presenter. “The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam.” AP Symposium on World Languages. Chicago. November 3-4, 2018
Coordinator. Enhancing Advising at Lawrence workshops. Coordinator. Lawrence University. 2014-2020
Institutional Representative. Institute for College Futures. ACM. Chicago, June 18-20, 2014
Project leader and presenter. ACM Project, Introducing Change: Introductory Courses and the Nature of Faculty Work. Chicago, February 21-22, 2014
Instructor. Spanish Language Teacher Immersion. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2009-2010
Instructor. “Spanish and Latin American Film.” Lawrence University Summer Institute for High School Teachers. Lawrence University, 2009
Instructor. “Applications of Technology for the Spanish Classroom.” Instructor. Lawrence University Summer Institute for High School Teachers. Lawrence University, 2008
Instructor. “Methodology and Best Practices in the Spanish Classroom.” Lawrence University, 2007
Presenter. “Wines and Cultural Readings from Argentina, Chile and Spain.” Björklunden Summer Seminars. Lawrence University, 2010
Presenter. “Ethics and Writing in Spanish and Latin American Fiction”. Institute of Ethical Leadership. April 2006. Ripon College
Presenter. “Jorge Luis Borges’ Collected Fictions.” Mielke Summer Institute. June 2006. Lawrence University
Presenter. “Teaching Plato’s The Republic.” Freshman Studies Symposium. September 2006. Lawrence University
Presenter. “Teaching Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions.” Freshman Studies Symposium September 2005. Lawrence University
OTHER ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Editor. Revista Internacional D’Humanitats
Reviewer. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Liverpool University Press
Reviewer. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
Reviewer. Crónicas de Españas. Universidad de Puerto Rico
U.S. Student Fulbright National Selection Committee, 2013
Program reviewer. Department of World Languages, College of Idaho, 2012 and 2019
AWARDS
Award for Excellence in Advising, Lawrence University, 2014
Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Lawrence University, 2005
Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2001
Academic & Teaching Excellence, University of Delaware, 1997
HONORS
Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, 1997
Sigma Delta Pi, Hispanic National Honor Society, 1997
Phi Sigma Iota, International Foreign Language Honor Society, 1998
GRANTS
Lawrence University. Anti-racism Fellowship. ($1,500). 2021-2022.
Mellon Foundation. Inclusive Pedagogies Course Modification Grant ($5,000). 2018-19
Wisconsin Humanities Council. “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History and Culture” ($7,500) Project Director. 2015-2016
LU–SuRE Lawrence University Summer Undergraduate Research Experience ($1,500). Project Director. June-August, 2015
Associated Colleges of the Midwest Grant, “Introducing Change in Intermediate Spanish Courses at Lawrence.” Introducing Change: Introductory Courses and the Nature of Faculty Work ($1,500). Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. Project Director. 2013-2014
Title III Federal Grant, Strengthening Institutions (2.1M). Advisory Committee. 2013
Presidential Grant, Lawrence University’s Latin American and Spanish Film Festival ($36,000). Project Director. 2012
Mellon Course Development Grant ($1,500). 2005
OTHER LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE POSITIONS
Lawrence University
Faculty Director of Advising. Lawrence University, 2016-2020
Assistant Director for Advising, Title III Initiatives, Lawrence University, 2014 – 2020
Co-director. Latin American and Spanish Film Festival. 2012 – present
Presidential Search Committee, 2012-2013
Grant writing advisory group, Title III Federal Grant (2.1 M), 2012-2013
Chair, Committee on Tenure, Reappointment and Promotion, 2011-2012
Committee on Tenure, Reappointment and Promotion, 2010-2011
Posse Mentor, 2010-2014
Chair, President’s Committee on Multicultural Affairs, 2009-2010
President’s Committee on Multicultural Affairs, 2008-2009
Technology Advisory Committee, 2007-2008
Committee on Public Occasions, 2006-2007
Lawrence University Community Council, 2004-2005
Faculty Subcommittee on Administration, 2005-2006
Off-Campus Study Selection Committee, 2005-2006
Warch Campus Center Planning Committee, 2006 – 2008
Committee on Instruction, 2005-2006
Freshman Studies Work Selection Committee, 2004-2005
AP Spanish Language and Culture Program and Exam
Chief Academic Consultant (Chief Reader), AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam, 2023-present
Member of the Development Committee, AP Spanish Exam, 2016-present
Chief Academic Consultant (Chief Reader) Designate, AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam, 2022-2023
Co-chair of the Development Committee, AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam, 2018 – 2022
Assistant Chief Reader, AP Spanish Language and Culture Reading, 2018 – present
Auditor, AP Spanish Language and Culture Course Syllabi, 2015-2016
Item Writer, AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam, 2014-2015
Question Leader, AP Spanish Language and Culture Reading, 2012-2017
Table Leader, AP Spanish Language and Culture Reading, 2010-2011
Reader, AP Spanish Language and Culture Reading, 2007-2009
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
20th and 21st century Spanish literature
Spanish, Latin American and Latino film
Gender studies in Spanish and Latin American literature and film
Constructions of national identity and representations of the nation in literature and film
Historical memory in literature and film from Spain, Chile and Argentina in the late 20th and early 21st century
Gender and nation in the contemporary Ibero-American cinema
Globalization, consumption and production of contemporary Ibero-American cinema
Horror, melodrama and affect in the contemporary Ibero-American cinema
Pedagogy and assessment of college-level courses in world languages and literatures
COURSES AND INDEPENDENT STUDIES
Spanish Cinema
Global Exchanges in Latin American and Spanish Film
Dis(re)membering the Nation: Contemporary Film & Fiction of Spain and Latin America
The (En)Gendering of Modern Spain: Gender and National Narratives from Romanticism to the Avant-garde
Gender, Politics and Current Events in Spain
Spanish Cinema of the “Dictablanda”
Portrayals of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chilean Media
The Cinema Of Disillusionment in Colombia
Globalization in Spanish and Latin American Film
The Films of Pedro Almodóvar
The Spanish Horror Film
Jorge Luis Borges
The Fantastic in Jorge Luis Borges’ Fictions
Federico García Lorca: Poeta en Nueva York
Women and the Civil War in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film
The Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo
Towards a New Rhetoric in Spanish Music: Francisco Correa, Lope de Vega and Innovation in Performative Arts during the Golden Age