Office Hours
By Appointment
Education
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
Central American 20th- and 21st-century narrative, testimonio and testimonial narrative, La Generación del 20, criollismo, literary portraiture, textual constructions of Maya identities
Publications
- "Stepping Towards a More Inclusive Nation: A Contextualized Reading of Carlos Wyld Ospina’s 'El movimiento teosófico en la Ciudad de Guatemala.'" Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 101, No. 7, 2024, pp. 673-86.
- “Flavio Herrera’s El tigre: Writing the Mayas out of the National Narrative.” Hispania, Vol. 105, No. 2, 2022, pp. 231-44.
- “As it Was: Sergio Ramírez’s Adiós muchachos: Una memoria de la revolución sandinista as a Literary Portrait of Sandinismo.” Hispanic Studies Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2022.
- “Smoke and Mirrors: Transgressing Neoliberal Walls in Isabel Allende’s Más allá del invierno.” Romance Notes, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2021, pp. 173-83.
- "On the Road to Nowhere: A Reading of Franz Galich’s Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame otra vez!)." Dissidences: Vol. 7: Iss. 12, Article 7. 2017.
- "Creating a Space for Love and Revolution: The Poetry of Otto René Castillo." Dissidences: Vol. 5: Iss. 10, Article 2. 2014.
Courses Taught
- FLSP 3060: Communicative Skills I
- FLSP 3070: Communicative Skills II
- FLSP 3080: Introduction to Cultural Analysis
- FLSP 3100: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
- FLSP 3210: Cultures of Spanish America
- FLSP 3220: Hispanic Cultures in the US
- FLSP 4210: Masterpieces of Latin American Literature
- FLSP 4220: Central War Testimonial Narrative and Politics in Latin America
- FLSP 7240: Spanish American Postcolonial Prose
- FLSP 7970: El criollismo y su resonancia en la narrativa latinoamericana
- FLSP 7970: Revoluciones centroamericanas por su literatura
- FLSP 7976: Building Nations and Identities in Latin America