My teaching interests include basic and intermediate language courses, introduction to Hispanic literatures and cultures, contemporary Latin American literatures, and the Latin American city and its historical and cultural representation.
I specialize in 20th-century Latin American women writers, life-writing and the politics of representation, and contemporary Latin American literary and cultural narratives.
I'm the author of Identidad, nación y gesto autobiográfico, and co-editor of Modalidades de representación del sujeto auto/biográfico femenino. My recent publications have appeared in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. I'm currently working on a book project on Urban Spaces, Gender, and Cultural Production in Mexico 1920-1950.
I love teaching and I have been awarded with the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, the ODK Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award. I was also recognized for my work on the Latino Community with the Latin American Coalition Award.
