Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A., Dickinson College

Research Interests

• Spanish women writers of the 21st Century
• Spanish novel of the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Memory and Trauma in the Spanish novel of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Sociological and Psychological theories and the novel
• Spanish Post-Civil War literature and the novel written under/after dictatorship
• Spanish and Spanish-American novels written under/after dictatorship

Books

• Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013. Co-editor and contributor.

Scholarly Articles

• “The Body Speaks: Pain, Discipline and Agency in Ana Cañil’s Si a los tres años no he vuelto.” Letras hispanas, Vol. 14, 2018, pp. 139-53.
• “The Discourse of Silence as Testimony in Jenn Díaz’s Es un decir.” Hispania, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 125-35.
• “Trauma and the Family Emotional System in Jenn Díaz’s Es un decir and Marisa Silva Schultze’s Apenas diez.” Cincinnati Romance Review, Vol. 43, Fall 2017, pp. 197-215.
• “National History and Resistance in Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial and Juan Goytisolo’s Reivindicación del Conde don Julián.” Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Julia Riordan-Goncalves and Patricia Swier. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013. 79-102.

Book Reviews

• Review of Reading Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: Selected Essays, by Noël Valis. Hispania, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 156-57.
• Review of Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance, by Aída Díaz de León et al. Hispania, Vol. 99, No. 4, 2016, pp. 680-81.
• Review of Histories, Cultures, and National Identities: Women Writing in Spain, 1877-1984, by Christine Arkinstall. Hispania, Vol. 94, No. 4, 2011, pp. 753-54.

Dissertation Review

• Review of Zones of Influence: The Production of Madrid in Early Franco Spain, by Adam Winkel. Dissertation Reviews. 15 Feb. 2015.

Presentations/Invited Talks

• “La búsqueda de la historia en La identidad perdida de María Dolores Moreno Burgos.” NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2022
• Organizer and Panel Chair – “Towards a Greater Inclusion of Women Authors of the Spanish Novel of Historical Memory.” NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2022
• “La identidad femenina en transición en Media vida de Care Santos.” Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Birmingham, AL, November 2018
• “Building Proficiency in the L2 Classroom: Tools, Strategies and Activities.” Workshop presented at Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey Conference, West Long Branch, NJ, August 2018
• Organizer and Panel Chair– “Confronting a Painful Past: Historical Memory in Novel and Film of the Hispanophone World”. Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA), Hartford, CT, March 2016
• “Trauma, Memory, and Family in Jenn Diaz’s Es un decir and Marisa Silva Schultze’s Apenas diez.” NeMLA Convention, Hartford, CT, March 2016
• “Reclaiming the Past and Reshaping the National Identity in Pedro Amoros’s La extraña victoria.” NeMLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, May 2015
• Organizer and Panel Chair – “Teaching Business Spanish: Approaches and Challenges.” NeMLA Convention, Boston, M.A., March 2013

Awards

• 2016 Distinguished Educator Award – Kappa Delta Pi Undergraduate International Honor Society in Education at Monmouth University