Education
Ph.D., Spanish Literature - The Ohio State University, 2007
M.A., Spanish Literature - The Ohio State University, 2003
B.A., Spanish and English, Wheaton College, 2001
Courses Taught
- Accelerated Elementary Spanish (SPAN 103)
- Elementary Spanish (SPAN 102)
- Adv Grammar and Composition (SPAN 332)
- Survey of Spanish Literature (Span 336)
Membership in Professional Societies
- Modern Language Association
Research
- Memory in contemporary narrative of Spain
- Photography in Literature
Papers Published and/or Presented
- "Nostalgia and Homesickness in 'La corriente del golfo' by Soledad Puértolas," Women, Home and Nation: Private and Public Spaces, 17th Annual Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY),March 14-15, 2008.
- “Memory and Photography in Historia de un abrigo by Soledad Puértolas,” Twelfth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literature, March 23-25, 2006.
- “Mujeres desocupadas, mujeres desesperadas: Las protagonistas de Soledad Puértolas y su búsqueda del reconocimiento en unos cuentos de La corriente del golfo,” Cincinnati Romance Languages and Literatures Conference for 2005, May 12-14, 2005.
- “Acercarse a Jaime Gil de Biedma: El amor y la función del monólogo dramático,” Sixth Annual Ohio State University Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics and Cultures, March 7-8, 2003.