Current Position:

Professor of Spanish

Description:

I teach all levels of Spanish language and literature.  Other interests include Gender Studies and Film Studies.

Office Hours:

MWF 1:15-2:00; TR 12:05-12:30 and by appointment

Field Of Study:

Contemporary Mexican Novel and Theater

Contemporary Spanish-American Literature and Film

Research Interests:

 WORKS IN PROGRESS

            Out of the Closet and onto the Stage: An Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Gay and Lesbian  Theater

            Translation of Rosamaria Roffiel's novel Amora

Courses:

SPNS 432 "Civilization and Barbarism and the Transformation of the Environment"

SPNS 359/MCLG/ENLT/LS 358 "Latin American Civilization through Literature and Film"

Hobbies:

I enjoy being with friends and family.  I like to travel to Latin America whenever possible.

Education:

Ph.D. University of Florida

MA University of Texas at San Antonio

BA University of Texas at Austin

Teaching Experience:

 

            Undergraduate/Graduate literature courses (in Spanish) at The University of Montana:

                       *Civilization and Barbarism and the Transformation of the Environment

                       *Teaching Toward Hope: Human Rights Issues in Contemporary Latin American

                                         Literature

                        *Hispanic Theater

                        *Contemporary Mexican Novel                     

                        *Queering Contemporary Spanish-American Literature and Film                           

                        *Gender Issues and the Contemporary Mexican Novel

                        *Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story

                        *Spanish-American Recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature                   

                        *Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Theater

                        *Literature of the ‘Boom’                   

                        *Contemporary Spanish-American Literature (Narrative, essay, theater)

 

            Graduate courses (in English):

                        *Seminar on the Contemporary Mexican Novel in Translation

                        *Research Methods and Literary Theory

           

            Undergraduate civilization and literature courses (in Spanish):

                        *Introduction to the Literature of Latin America

                        *Spanish-American Civilization through Literature and Film

           

            Undergraduate literature and civilization courses (in English):

                        *Major Hispanic Authors and Their Times: Elena Poniatowska

                        *Major Hispanic Authors and Their Times: Rosario Castellanos

                        *Major Hispanic Authors and Their Times: Juan Rulfo

                        *Latin-American Civilization through Literature and Film

           

            Undergraduate language courses (in Spanish):

                        *Advanced Composition and Conversation

                        *Advanced Practice in Spanish Conversation

                        *Written and Oral Expression in Cultural Contexts

                        *Intermediate Spanish (regular)

                        *Intermediate Spanish (special section: Freshmen Interest Group FIG)

                        *Beginning Spanish

           

            Undergraduate special interdisciplinary courses (in English):

                        *Reading the City: Mexico City

                        *Reading the City: Excursion to Mexico City

                        *Study Abroad Preparation for Semester Long Stay in Oaxaca, Mexico

                        *Study Abroad Preparation for Semester Long Stay in Guanajuato, Mexico

 

             Faculty Exchange:

                        Division of Sciences and Humanities, Department of Hispanic Letters, University

                        of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.  Fall 2009.  Courses taught:

 

                        Graduate course (in Spanish):

                        *Contemporary Mexican Gay and Lesbian Narrative

 

                       Undergraduate literature course (in Spanish):

                       *Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Spanish-American Theater

 

 

                       

Affiliations:

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Specialized Skills:

I'm communicatively competent in Brazilian Portuguese.

Professional Experience:

I have taught middle school and high school.

International Experience:

Semester-Long Faculty Exchange to the University of Guanajuato

Mini Faculty Exchanges to Chile and to Argentina

University Research Grant: Mexico and Puerto Rico

Faculty Development Awards: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Brazil.

Selected Publications:

 MONOGRAPH

Clásicos de la Literatura Hispanoamericana Colonial en su Contexto Sociohistórico.  San Francisco: Floricanto Press, 2007.

 

RECENT ARTICLES

 

“El análisis psicológico en la novela de Eduardo Barrios,” Sieteculebras: Revista

Andina de Cultura 26 (Julio-sepiembre 2009): 6-10.

 

“Print the Myth: Elena Poniatowska’s Biographical Fiction,”

Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 24.2 (Spring 2009): 83-92.

 

“El romanticismo en Hispanoamérica,”

Sieteculebras: Revista Andina de Cultura 24 (Mayo-agosto 2008): 12-15.

 

"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y su Respuesta,”

Liberarte 3.1 (Sept/Dic 2008): http://www.usfq.edu.ec/liberArte/05/respuesta.html

Other Publications:

 TRANSLATIONS

            Novels:

The Strongest Passion [translation of La más fuerte pasión (1995) by Mexican writer

            Luis Zapata]. San Francisco: Floricanto Press, 2006.

The Diary of José Toledo [translation of El diario de José Toledo (1962) by Mexican

            writer Miguel Barbachano Ponce]. New Orleans: University Press of the

            South, 2001.

           

            Plays:

Gay Dracula (translation of Drácula Gay)by Mexican dramatist Tomás Urtusástegui;

                        Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly 7.4 (2005): 37-45.

Languages Known:

• English - native/bilingual proficiency
• Spanish - native/bilingual proficiency