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Education

• PhD, Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison MA, Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BA, Spanish, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• Diploma in Hispanic, European and Latin American Studies, Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain

Courses Taught

• SPANISH 318 - Advanced Speaking and Listening
• SPANISH 350 - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPANISH 371 - Introduction to U.S. Latino Literature in English
• SPANISH 373 - Topics in U.S. Latino Literature: Latina Writers
• SPANISH 472 - Spanish-American Literature and Civilization
• SPANISH 507 - Gender and Resistance in Latin American Literature
• SPANISH 577 - The Latin American Essay
• SPANISH 720 - Approaches to Hispanic Literary Theory and Criticism
• SPANISH 769 - Gender and Resistance in Latin American Literature
• SPANISH 781 - The Latin American Essay
• SPANISH 720 - Approaches to Hispanic Literary Theory and Criticism

Research Interests

Latin American literature, Women writers of the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century in Puerto Rico, Transatlantic approach to 1898, U.S. Hispanic Literature via Luisa Capetillo, Latino/a Literature, gender studies and literatura obrera.

Selected Publications