EDUCATION

1995 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. M.A. program
1995-2001 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Ph.D. program
(Fields of competence: Spanish and Spanish American Literature, 16th-17th centuries; theories of monstrosity; gender studies)
12/2001 Dissertation: "Monsters, Transgression, and Female Corporeality in Golden Age and Colonial Spanish-American Theater." Director: Dr. Charles V. Ganelin.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

8/01- Assistant Professor of Spanish (Transatlantic Studies: Golden Age and
Colonial Spanish-American Literature). California State University,
Long Beach.

Current teaching assignment:
SPAN 310: Introduction to Literary Analysis
SPAN 490/590: Don Quixote and the Critics
SPAN 538: Bodies, Discourses and Texts at the Margin in
Spanish Golden Age Literature

COURSES

Fall 2001 and 2002:
o The Consequences of the Encounter (RGR/CHLS 450). This
course examines the social, religious, cultural, ethnic, and racial
consequences of the "encounter" between the Old World, New
World, and Africa from the time of the Conquest through the
Present with the voyages of Christopher Columbus as a focal
point.

o Bodies, Discourses, and Texts at the Margin in Spanish Golden
Age Literature. (SPAN 538). This graduate-level course deals with marginalized entities (people of color, women (both as characters and writers, homosexuals, etc.) and their relationship to the cultural, social, and economic atmosphere in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

o Introduction to Literary Analysis. (SPAN 410). This course introduces students to the different approximations a texts affords as well as the terminology (pertaining to narrative, poetic and theatrical genres) required to arrive at a given interpretation.

Summer 2002
o Introduction to Literary Analysis. ( SPAN 310) Condensed, six
week course.

Spring 2002 and 2003
o Introduction to Literary Analysis. (SPAN 310; note change) (see previous entry for course description).

o Studies in Colonial Spanish-American Literature (SPAN 550).
This graduate-level course provides students with an overview of
the most representative texts of the Colonial period in Spanish-
America from 1500-1800. The class readings focus on chronicles,
diaries, poetry, autobiography, and travel narratives.

o Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 201-A). This course is designed to
develop students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills,
with attention given to oral communication.

SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

PUBLICATIONS

7/2003 [refereed] "Slaying the Beast: The Case of Beatriz in Sor Juana's La segunda Celestina." Bulletin of the Comediantes. (forthcoming)

7/2003 [refereed] "La monja alférez: cuerpo, discurso y texto híbrido." Las
Jornadas Metropolitanas. Impresos Johnny: Mexico City, 2003.

7/2003 [refereed] Book Review of Gender, Power, and the Word. Ed. Linda
Longmire and Lisa Merrill. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001. Journal of
Research in International Education. Bath, England. (forthcoming)

3/2004 [refereed] "Erasing the (Monstrous) Feminine: Juan Pérez de Montalván's La monja alférez. "Beyond the Convent: Colonial Women's Voices and Daily Challengings in Spanish America." Special edition of Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos y Lingüística. (Puerto Rico). Forthcoming, 2005.

2002- (Work in progress) Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early
Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Theater. Ed. Mindy Badía and
Bonnie Gasior. (under review with Bucknell University Press).

CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA

3/2002. Presentation of "Erasing the feminine: Juan Pérez de
Montalván's La monja alférez." Association for Classical Hispanic
Theater. El Paso, TX.

4/2002. Presentation of "A comparison of Catalina de Erauso's and Juan Pérez
de Montalván's La monja alférez." Medieval and Renaissance Group,
California State University, Long Beach.

7/2002. Presentation of "La monja alférez: cuerpo, discurso y texto híbrido."
Las Jornadas Metropolitanas. Mexico City, México.

8/2002 In attendance at ADFL conference. Long Beach, CA.

9/2002. Presentation of "Slaying the Beast: The Case of Beatriz in Sor Juana's
La segunda Celestina." Asociación de Escritoras Españolas y Americanas. Portland, Oregon.

9/2002. Chair, Women Writing Subjectivity. AEEA. Portland, Oregon.

3/2003. "Food For Thought: Aspects of Carnival and the Female Grotesque in
Lope's La dama boba." Association for Classical Hispanic Theater. El Paso, Texas.

3/2003. Chair and co-organizer of panel Crosscurrents I. Association for
Classical Hispanic Theater, El Paso, Texas.

9/2003 "Bartolomé de las Casas, Alonso de Espinosa, and Lope de Vega:
Engendering a (Female) Poetics of Incursion: The Case of The
Guanches de Tenerife and Conquest of the Canary Islands." Cultural
Conquests: 1500-2000. International Colloquium: The Seminar of
General and Comparative History, Institute of World History of the
Charles University (Prague), and European Urban History Group at
the Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria.

10/2003 "Feminizing the Conquest: Lope de Vega's (Female) Poetics of
Conquest in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de gran canaria."
Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispanica

AWARDS

3/2003 Named to the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Executive
Board of Directors.

4/2003 SCAC grant. Three units of release time.

4/2003 Applied for a nine month National Endowment for the Humanities
grant.

7/2003 SCAC conference grant for 200-03 academic year ($675.00)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2001- Departmental curriculum committee. I was elected to this four-member
committee that met every week for an hour and a half during the semester to resolve curriculum issues facing the Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literature Department

2001- Faculty advisor of the Spanish Club. The Spanish Club met every
three weeks. The students were provided with coffee and snacks and were encouraged to practice their spoken Spanish. .

2001- Co-interviewer for teaching certification program (LOTE).
Interviewed students who are eligible to student teach and evaluated their Spanish and English skills to determine their linguistic readiness.

2001- Graduate faculty committee. Rewrote M.A. list, evaluated graduate
student applications, and updated the number of units for the Spanish
major.

2002 RGRLL banner holder at University graduation.

2002 Invited by Spain's Ministry of Culture to participate in a week-long Study abroad fair in central Spain.

2002- Two-time study abroad interviewer. Interviewed students who planned
on studying abroad in various countries. As a result of this trip I am
taking a group of fourteen students to Madrid for four weeks in June.
Responsible for all planning, organizing, and advertising dealing with
the trip.

2002 Guest Speaker: Dr. Charles Ganelin ("The Handling of Narrative in
Cervantes's Don Quijote") Organized his presentation which was open
to the University community.

2002 Editorial board of La Celestina, the University's literary magazine.

2002 Faculty in residence program. In exchange for housing, I hold ten
tutorial hours per week. Also organized Monday night discussion
group for students at the dining hall.

2002- Latin American Studies Committee.

2002- Study Abroad committee. Evaluated essays eligible for scholarship
money.

2002 SOAR counseling. Met with new transfer students to offer course
selection advice.

2002 Peer Review Committee. Evaluated two lecturers, María Teresa Nuñez
and Alicia Machado, both Spanish instructors.

2003 Majors Fair at the Student Union. Talked to students and handed out
flyers to those interested in majoring in a language.

2003 Helped organize the Majors Award Ceremony at Acapulco Restaurant.

2003 Reviewer for Gestos Theater Journal, UC Irvine.

2003 Pusher for Liberal Arts graduation ceremony.

2003 Read short children's story for "El día del niño" at the Student Union.

2003 Co-organizer of Graduate student orientation meeting.

2003 Gave teaching demo lesson for all teaching associates as per Dr. Markus
Muller's request.

2003- College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee.

2003 European Studies Committee.

2003 (November). Invited Dr. Ignacio Lopez Calvo (California State Univ.,
Los Angeles) to give a talk on Trujillo's narratives.

Participation in Student Activities:

o Advised several students about graduate programs

o Wrote letter for graduating senior, Oscar Herrera, who was
subsequently selected as the outstanding major of the Spanish
department, 2003.

o Was one of 8 professors invited to Delta Gamma professor night,
a dinner prepared by the sorority members to honor their outstanding
professors.

o Advisor to the Spanish Club. Met with students on a weekly basis and
helped organize a Spanish Club dinner at the end of the semester.

o Theater field trip. Took sixteen students to see La Malinche at the
Frida Kahlo theater

o Met with select graduate students to prepare them for Masters exams.

o Wrote several letters of recommendation for students applying for
graduate school and employment.

o Organized a study abroad program to Madrid, Spain in June 2003.

o Co-organizer of Parkside Dining Hall's weekly discussion dinner for
students.

o Volunteered time at the Welcome Back barbecue on Cerritos Lawn
at the beginning of the fall '03 semester for students in residence halls.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

o Member of American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese

o Member of the Modern Language Association.

o Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish National Honor Society.

o ACHT (Association of Classic Hispanic Theater). Named to Executive
Board, 2003.

o AEEA (Asociación de Escritoras Españolas y Americanas)