BACKGROUND

B.A. Spanish and Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder Magna Cum Laude
M.A. Spanish, Washington University, St. Louis
Ph.D. Spanish American Literature, University of California, Davis

COURSES

SPAN 4562 Latin American Texts of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
SPAN 4560. Major Latin-American Authors
SPAN 3330 Advanced Spanish Composition
SPAN 2550 Approaches to the Study of Hispanic Literatures
SPAN 2441 Latin-American Culture and Civilization
SPAN 1002 Spanish Level 2
SPAN 1001 Spanish Level 1

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Nation Building
Immigration
Travel Writing

PUBLICATIONS

"Tourist Gaze and Germanic Immigrants in Roberto Arlt's Aguafuertes patagónicas." Revista Hispánica Moderna. Forthcoming.

"Soñar con el futuro. Proyectos inmigratorios para la Patagonia argentina en Roberto J. Payró y Teodoro Alemann." Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal. 30 (2008): 27-45.

Edited Journal Issue. "Utopian Passports: Travel, Immigration and Diaspora in Latin America," Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 3 (2004).

Archival commentary. "Roberto Arlt's Aguafuertes patagónicas." Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 3 (2004): 28-34.

Article. with Febe Armendariz. "En Route: Publishing an Academic Article." Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 2 (2003): 105-131.

Book Review. Szurmuk, Mónica. Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. Studies in Travel Writing 7.1 (2003):106-108.