Interest and areas of expertise
Golden Age Literature (especially theater), Gender Studies, Colonial discourses, and religious rituals.
Education
- Ph.D. - 2008
- M.A. - 2004
- B.A. - 1998
Classes I teach
All level of Spanish language classes (101, 102, 201, 206)
Early Modern Hispanic Transatlantic Literature
Baroque Literature (Cervantes, Theater)
Spanish Women Writers
20th Century Spanish Literature
20th Century Spanish Cinema
Spanish Short Stories
Publications and scholarly activity
“Amazonas en las Indias: Mixed Marriages and the Pizarros’ Political Project.” The Other America: Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater. Book Manuscript under revision for Bucknell University Press.
“España en Cervantes y Ruiz de Alarcón.” Actas del congreso de la IILI. Cadiz. 2012. Forthcoming.
“Visiones de México y los criollos en El semejante a sí mismo.”. Volumen 63. Number 2. Spring 2011.
“Entrevista a Sandra Sampayo, Elvira en El mejor alcalde, el rey” en , Volume 7, number 1, Spring 2010.
Enseñar Idiomas. “Corrección de errores a través de planes de lección basados en tareas.” Opúsculo No. 12, Cedai, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, 2000. 2nd price in the contest organized by CEDAI for Academic Essays.
Book reviews
Carrión, María M. Subject Stages: Marriage, Theater, and the Law in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: UP Toronto, 2010. B. Forthcoming.
Castillo, Susan. Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786. Performing America. New York: Routledge, 2006. Bulletin of the Comediantes. January 2006.