Education
Ph.D. Washington University in Saint Louis
Courses Taught
GRADUATE COURSES
• Arts and Activism. Migrant Stories in Images and Texts (1990-2020)
• Telling to Live: Testimonio and the Borderlands
• Representations of Otherness in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction
• Feminist Poetics, Spain from the 18th Century to the Present
• Inclusions and Exclusions: The Making and Unmaking of Spain
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES FOR MAJORS
• Languages for the Professions
• Topics Spanish Literature: Diversity in Spain: Past and Present
• Advanced Spanish Composition: Writing from the Wound, Memory, and Creativity
• Advanced Spanish Composition: Testimonials and Latina Identities
• Intermediate Spanish Composition
• Introduction to Literary Analysis
• Introduction to Spanish Culture Abroad
• Spanish Conversation Abroad
• Cultural Immersion through Service Learning Abroad
• Advanced Grammar
Research
- Black Atlantic, 18th and 19th centuries, Spain, Santo Domingo and Cuba
- Enslavement and Resistance in Literature and the Law
- 18th-19th and 20th Centuries Literatures, Spain
- 21st Century Women Writers, Spain
- Languages for the Professions
Selected Publications
“The Creative Journeys of Rosa Ibarra and Monica Brown: Writing and Illustrating Bilingual Spanish-English Picturebooks For Children as Community Engagement” in Creative Readings of Multilingual Picture Books. International and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Esa Hartmann and Áine McGillicuddy eds. Routledge University Press, 2025: 223-236.
“Pardo Soldiers’ Historical Claims in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba” in 59.4 Latin American Research Review (March Open Access December in Print 2024): 840-857.
“Race and Reform in Late Colonial Santo Domingo” in Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800, Rolando Carrasco ed. Berlin: De Gruyter University Press Library, 2022: 87-111.
“Giro Feminista en España. Colaboración entre escritoras, 2000-2020” in Del salvaje siglo XIX al inestable siglo XX en las letras Transatlánticas. Una mirada retrospectiva a través de hispanistas. Ana Isabel Simón Alegre ed. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2022: 225-240.
“La figura del vago en la España ilustrada” in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 50.2 (June 2016): 509-531.
“The Literary Scholar in the Historical Archive” in Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 39.2 (Fall 2016): 314-320.
“Sentiment and the Law: Inventing the Category of the Wretched Slave in the Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo, 1783-1812” in Eighteenth Century Studies 48.2 (January 2015): 181-200.
EDITOR, INTERNATIONAL POETRY REVIEW
Founded in 1975 by Evalyn Pierpoint Gill, the International Poetry Review is dedicated to the idea that the world becomes a better place when we listen to the voices of writers working in various languages. The journal publishes works written by contemporary global writers in their languages, accompanied by English translations. The journal is published by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
International Poetry Review 48.2025 “Fragments of Becoming. Poetry Beyond Duality”
International Poetry Review 47.2024 “The Arabic Spring”
International Poetry Review 46.2023 “Transitions”
International Poetry Review 45.2022 “In English Translation”
International Poetry Review 44.2021 “Angles, Perspectives, Stories”
International Poetry Review 43.2020 “Poesía de protesta y revuelta en Latino América”
