Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Education:

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• M.A., Middlebury College/University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
• B.A., Southern Methodist University

Research & Teaching Interests: Hispanic Poetry, Spanish American Women Writers --Caribbean and Southern Cone--, Afro-Hispanic Expression, Urban Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Illness and Aesthetic Bodies, Ecofeminism, Exile and Immigrant Literature, Literary Translation and Creative Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom.

Department Appointments: Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish

Awards: Feministas Unidas Essay Prize

• “Daisy Zamora.” and "Josefina Plá." Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Paulina Bruno. Routledge, 2007.
• “Two Havana Love Songs: Reconsidering ‘Amor, ciudad atribuida’ by Nancy Morejón." Utah Foreign Language Review (2005): 14: 47-60.
• “Finally Free: The Female Artist and the City in Dulce María Loynaz’s Jardín     (Feministas Unidas Essay Prize)” Letras Femeninas. (Dec. 2005): 11-26.
• “Her Havana: Cuban Women Writers Imagining a City of One’s Own.” Women and Environments International Magazine. (May 2004): 16-17.
• “POESIdA: Hispanic Writers Respond to AIDS.” MIFLC Review 11 (2002): 1-24.
• "Fina García Marruz." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Spanish American Poets.  Ed. María A. Salgado. 283.1: 109-16.

• FLSP 3010, Spanish Phonetics
• FLSP 3020, Spanish Syntax
• FLSP 3030, Spanish Conversation
• FLSP 3040, Spanish Composition
• FLSP 3100, Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• FLSP 3220, Spanish-American Civilization II
• FLSP 4310, Business Spanish I
• FLSP 4320, Business Spanish II
• FLSP 4420, Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Vivimos en el verso: teoría y práctica de la poesía
• FLSP 4420, Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Voces con ciudad: la expresión urbana en la poesía hispánica
• FLSP 6020, Advanced Spanish Syntax: El comentario lingüístico
• FLSP 7220, Spanish American Poetry I 
• FLSP 7230, Spanish American Poetry II
• FLSP 7970, La palabra apasionada: La palabra apasionada: la poesía amorosa y erótica de HispanoAmérica
• FLSP 8000, Lifelong Language Learning: Course in development. A civic-engagement course in which AU students will teach basic, conversational and travel Spanish to local senior citizens.