Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, Comparative Literature, 2014
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Spanish American and Anglophone poetry; European avant-garde art and
poetry; comparative literature; critical theory with particular emphasis on aesthetics,
poetics and semiology; gender, queer and LGBT studies; teaching of English and Spanish
as second languages.
SP 506, Spain and Latin America: People and Culture
SP 507, Reading from Spanish Culture
SP 588, Master’s Project (Survey Translation)
Undergraduate
Undergraduate Courses
SP 101, Elementary Spanish, Semester I
SP 102, Elementary Spanish, Semester II
SP 201, Intermediate Spanish, Semester I
SP 202, Intermediate Spanish, Semester II
SP 313, Landmarks of Peninsular Spanish Literature
SP 317, Landmarks of Spanish American Literature
SP 322, Conversation and Composition in Spanish
SP 422, Advanced Topics for Conversation in Spanish
SP 425, Advanced Spanish Grammar
SP 431, History of Spanish American Civilization
SP 499, Senior Seminar (Survey Translation)
Affiliations
Professional memberships
Alpha Mu Gamma Honor Society
American Comparative Language Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Spanish Association for American Studies
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Scholarship
Recent publications and/or creative works
Book Chapters
“Susan Howe’s Historical Ethics of Space and Puritan Spirituality: An Ecofeminist Reading of Souls of the Labadie Tract.” The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-Caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s), edited by Margarita Estévez-Saá and María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia, 1st. ed., Routledge, 2019. Originally published in The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-Caring, edited by Margarita Estévez-Saá and María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia, spec. issue of Women’s Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 2, 2018, pp. 187-200.
“Futurism and Ultraism: Identity and Hybridity in the Spanish Avant-Garde.” Iberian Futurisms, edited by Günter Berghaus, spec. issue of International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 3, Berlin, 2013, pp. 151-177.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Police, Politics and Anti-Art: the Case of Berlin Dada.” Political Literature, edited by Diana Eidson, spec. issue of South Atlantic Review, vol. 83, no. 3, 2018, pp. 105-129.
Co-authored with Brian M. Phillips. “The Impact of Vicente Huidobro and Ramón Gómez de la Serna on the Spanish Avant-Garde: Visualization and Rhetorical Artifice.” in Fall 2017 in the Cincinnati Romance Review.
“Frida Kahlo and the Improper/Unclean: Towards the Condition of Abjection.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal 43.4 (May 2014): 407-424. Routledge/Francis & Taylor.
“Robert Duncan on Charles Baudelaire: Towards a Poetics of Infection.” ODISEA: Revista de estudios ingleses 11 (2011): 169-181.
“Wuthering Heights: The Quest for Continuity.” ES: Revista de filología inglesa 31 (2011): 187-201.
“The Surrealist Collection of Objects.” Four Hundred and Fifty-Two Degrees: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature 2 (2010): 112-126. 452f.com.
