- Ph.D., Latin American Literature, Indiana University
- M.A., Hispanic Literature, Miami University of Ohio
- B.A., English Literature and Spanish, Knox College
- Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Spanish Program Director
- First Year Spanish I (MSP 1301)
- Second Year Spanish I (MSP 2311)
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Spanish-American Literary Traditions (MSP 3318)
- Spanish-American Poetry (MSP 4372)
- Colonialism in Latin America
- Mestizaje, transculturation, and hybridity
- 20th-century Vanguardia literature
- U.S. Latino Literature
- 鈥溾�榁ienen de gente de mucha discreci贸n y entendimiento:鈥� Ethnic Identity, Ambivalence, and Colonial Discourses in Diego Mu帽oz Camargo鈥檚 Descripci贸n de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala.鈥� Forthcoming in Colonial Latin American Review. 26.2 (2017).
- 鈥湽蟪馨烀� y el legado poscolonial de occidente en La maravillosa vida breve de 脫scar Wao.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Estudios: Revista de Filosof铆a, Historia, y Letras. 116 (Spring 2016) 87-99.
- Writing Virtue and Indigenous Rights: Juan Bautista de Pomar and the Relacin de Texcoco. Forthcoming in Hispania 98.2 (2015).
- 鈥淛uan Bautista de Pomar and the Appropriation of Christian Discourse in Relaci贸n de Texcoco.鈥� Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference. June 8, 2007. Published in: Interstitial Readings: Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies' 25th Annual Graduate Student Conference," ed. Megan Moore. Chicago: Newberry Library, 2007. 44-57. Invited submission.
- 鈥淛uan de Palafox y Mendoza鈥檚 Reformist Agenda in El Pastor de Nochebuena.鈥� Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 22-25, 2015.
- 鈥�贵耻办煤 and the Post-Colonial Legacy of the West in The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao.鈥� Colloquium on Tradition and Humanism. Instituto Tecnol贸gico Aut贸nomo de M茅xico, Mexico City, Mexico. August 17-19, 2015.
- 鈥淔谤辞尘&苍产蝉辫;Discordia to Concordia? Narrative Tensions in Borges, Cort谩zar, and Fuentes: A Lecture on Latin American Literature and the Western Tradition.鈥� 澳门天天彩, March 30, 2015.
- 鈥淟os or铆genes del mestizaje: la identidad y la pol铆tica colonial en el siglo XVI.鈥� Keynote Speaker. Instituto Tecnol贸gico Aut贸nomo de M茅xico (ITAM). Mexico City, Mexico. February 24, 2015.
- 鈥淛uan Bautista de Pomar, Diego Mu帽oz de Camargo, and the Relaciones Geogr谩ficas in the wake of the Spanish Crown鈥檚 1577 Censorship of Indigenous Writings.鈥� Sixteenth Century Society Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. October 16-19, 2014.
- 鈥淲riting Identity and Place: Diego Mu帽oz Camargo and the History of Tlaxcala.鈥� Latin American Studies Association, Thirty-Second Annual International Congress. Chicago, Illinois. May 2014.
- 鈥淚llustrating Place and Identity: Tlaxcalan Responses to the Instrucci贸n y memoria questionnaire.鈥� Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November, 2013.
- 鈥淓pistemologies in Migration: Changing Approaches to the New in the Imperial Histories of Peter Martyr, Gonzalo Fern谩ndez de Oviedo, and Juan L贸pez de Velasco.鈥� Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Lincoln, Nebraska. October 2012.
- 鈥淩evising the mestizo myth: Juan Bautista de Pomar, Diego Mu帽oz Camargo, and Sixteenth-century Ethnic Identities.鈥� Latin American Studies Association, Thirtieth Annual International Congress. San Francisco, California. May 2012.
- Mathers, Clay, et al. Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast. In Catholic Southwest 26 (2015).
- Levin Rojo, Danna. Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo Mexico. Catholic Southwest 25 (2014): 86-7.