Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Education: Ph.D., Boston University

Research & Teaching Interests: Colonial chronicles and epic poetry of Mexico and Hispanic Southern USA

• La poesía de Francisco de Terrazas: Edición crítica (forthcoming).
• Discurso, retórica y agencia del criollo mexicano en "Nuevo Mundo y Conquista" de Francisco de Terrazas. VDM Verlag, 2009.
• "The Double Discourse of Indian Mythicizing in Cabeza de Vaca's "Naufragios." Hispanic Journal 28.1 (Fall 2007): 23-34.
• "Religious Typology and Early Creole Discourse in Epics from Mexico and New Mexico." Études Medievales 8.8 (2006): 65-73.

• FLSP 3030, Spanish Conversation through Film
• FLSP 3040, Spanish Composition
• FLSP 3100, Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• FLSP 3220, Spanish-American Civilization II
• FLSP 4310, Business Spanish I
• FLSP 4420, Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Hispanic Colonial Literautre of the USA
• FLSP 4420, Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Myths and Demystification of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Film
• FLSP 7050, Literary Criticism and Theory
• FLSP 7150, Hispanic Colonial Literature of the United States
• FLSP 7210, Colonial Spanish-American Literature
• FLSP 7976, Special Topics in Linguistics Literature & Culture - Colonial Hispanic Culture of the United States (via distance education)