I teach Spanish courses at all levels and am an advisor to Spanish minors. I am also the Coordinator of the Latinx, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program. 

Teaching and Research Interests

Recent Courses Taught
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 420 Translating & Interpreting Spanish I
SPAN 450 Special Topics: Constructing Gender and National Identities in Latinx Literature and Film

Selected Publications

Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. Co-edited with Sandra García Gutiérrez. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Forthcoming in 2025).

The Female Vampire in Hispanic Fiction: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales (Under contract with University of Wales Press’s Gothic Originals Series, forthcoming in 2023.)

“Tensiones ideológicas, sociales y económicas en ‘Vampiro’: relato gótico de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Entropía: Revista de terror en el arte español e hispanoamericano 3 (2022): 25-41. https://revista-entropia.com/ojss/index.php/entropia/issue/view/3

"O Father, Where Art Thou? Grief and Cannibal Culture in Somos lo que hay (2010)." Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss. Lexington Books, 2022. 107–26.

"Hearth and Home and Horror: Gothic Trappings in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature." Gothic Studies 23.2 (2021): 201-216.

"Lugones and the Woman Question: Reconsidering the Status Quo and Reimagining the Femme Fatale in His Early Works." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 96.3 (2019): 307-321. 

Translation. "After the End of History: Horror Cinema in Neoliberal Spain (2002-2013)" by Víctor Pueyo. Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror: Essays on Contemporary Spanish Horror and Television. Routledge, 2017. 141-160

"The Sublime as a Response to Terror: A Study of Empiricism and Transcendence in Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's 'El monte de las ánimas'." Entrehojas: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2.1/6 (2012): 1-13.