Spanish and Latin American film and 20th-century Spanish literature. National Chief Academic Consultant for . Co-organizer of , Latin American and Spanish Film Fest (see 2022Ìý). Publications include the bookÌýCatalan Writers on the Border, a volume on Latin American cinema, and articles and book chapters on literature and film. Professional awards from the University of Delaware, Penn State, and Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ.
COURSES
- Spanish Language and Culture
- Introduction to Latin American and Spanish Film
- Spanish Cinema
- "Dis(re)membering" the Nation: Contemporary Film & Fiction of Spain and Latin America
- The Engendering of Modern Spain: Gender and National Narratives from Romanticism to the Avant-garde
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
- Spanish, Latin American, and Latinx cinemas
- Historical memory in post-dictatorship literature and film from Spain, Chile, and Argentina
- Horror and melodrama in contemporary Latin American cinema
- Gender studies in Spanish and Latin American literature and film
- Pedagogy and assessment of college-level courses in world languages and literature
TITLES OF PAST INDEPENDENT STUDIES AND TUTORIALSÌý
- Global Exchanges in Latin American and Spanish Film
- Spanish Cinema of the “Dictablandaâ€
- Portrayals of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chilean Media
- The Cinema Of Disillusionment in Colombia
- Globalization in Spanish and Latin American Film
- The Films of Pedro Almodóvar
- The Spanish Horror Film
- The Fantastic in Jorge Luis Borges’ÌýFictions
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca:ÌýPoeta en Nueva York
- Women and the Civil War in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film
- The Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo
- Towards a New Rhetoric in Spanish Music: Francisco Correa, Lope de Vega and Innovation in Performative Arts during the Golden Age
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