2003    Ph.D., Spanish and Comparative Literature   Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

 1987    B.A., Spanish                                                  Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

 CAREER HISTORY

 2020-Present   Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept of LLAC

2016-2020       Director, Latin American Studies/Latinx Studies, Marquette University

2015-Present   Associate Professor of Spanish, Marquette University

2005-2015       Assistant Professor of Spanish, Marquette University

2004-2005       Lecturer, Northwestern University

2003-2004       Assistant Professor of Spanish, Centre College

 Post-Tenure at Marquette University:

 Books

 In Press

 2026    Author, Cuban Slavery Inside Out: Nonfiction Narratives of Cuban Slavery by Cuban and U.S. Writers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

 In Progress

 Author, From Converts to Contract Labor to “Raceless” Cubans: Coloniality and the Image of the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Book-length manuscript under contract with the University Press of Florida. Three of five chapters drafted.

 2017    Invited author. “Nothing to Hide: Sab as Anti-slavery and Feminist Novel,” Hispanic Issues On-Line, Vol. 18 “Gender and the Politics of Literature: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda,” (2017): 135-152.

In Progress

Author, “The Counternarrative within the Slave Narrative: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua. Under revision.

 Book Chapters

 In Print

 2021    Invited, peer reviewed. “Juanita versus Cecilia: Cuban Slavery in Anglo and Latin American Literature”. Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman. Eds. Marta García, Vicente Pérez de León, and Cory Duclos. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta. 200-217.

 2018    Invited, peer reviewed. “Slavery in Service of the Revolution in Sergio Giral’s El Otro Francisco”. Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film. Ed. Rudyard J. Alcocer, Kristen Block, and Dawn Duke. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P. 2018. 1-23.

 Book Reviews

 In Print

 2023    Invited author. “James J. O’Kelly, The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba. 1874. Edited by Jennifer Brittan (Virginia 2022).” American Literary History. Vol. 35, Iss. 2 (2023): 927-930.

 2016    Invited author. “Lohse, Russell (2014) Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and identity in Colonial Costa Rica.” Bulletin of Latin American Research. Vol. 36, Iss. 1 (2016): 517-519.

 Pre-Tenure at Marquette University:

 Books

 In print

 2008    Editor, Dominant Culture and the Education of Women. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles

 
2014    “Turning West Indian Memory into History and Redefining Panamanian National Identity in Melva Lowe de Goodin’s De/From Barbados a/to Panamá,” Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 33, No 2 (2014). 87-106. 

 2013    “Writing a White History: the Role of Crypto-Jews in Colonial Yucatán in Justo Sierra O’Reilly’s La hija del judío,” Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 41, No. 82 (2013): 72-92.

 2011    “Representations of Jewish Identity in Jorge Isaacs’ María,” Hispanófila, Vol. 162 (2011). 43-60.

 
2010    “Representations of Slavery and Afro-Peruvians in Flora Tristán’s Travel Narrative, Peregrinations of a Pariah,” Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2010). 117-134.

 2005    “(Re)Writing Patriarchy and Motherhood in José de Alencar’s Allegorical Antislavery Plays, O Demônio Familiarand Mãe,” Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, (2005). 61-77.

2002    “A New Look at the Strains of Allegory in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab,” Revista Hispánica Moderna, Vol. 40, No. 2, (December, 2002). 229-241.

 1999    “Las oposiciones en la poesía de Sara de Ibáñez,” Hybrido:  arte y literature para el nuevo milenio, No. 3, (1999). 66-70.

 Book Chapters

 2008    “Women Who Know Latin: An Introduction to Dominant Culture and the Education of Women.” Dominant Culture and the Education of Women.  Ed. Julia C. Paulk.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 1-9.

 2008    “Beyond the American Home: The Contributions of Catharine Beecher and Clorinda Matto de Turner to Women’s Education.” Dominant Culture and the Education of Women.  Ed. Julia C. Paulk.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 184-196.

 Annotated Bibliography

 In Print

 2013    “Further Reading”. “Sab Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol 264. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013. 263-265.

 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) 

 2024    Paper read: “Collective Resistance or Racial Assimilation?: The Chino mambí in Narratives of Cuba’s Wars of Independence”. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2024.

 2023    Paper read: “Slavery in the Travels of the Condesa de Merlin”. Calibanías Caribbean Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2023.

 2023    Paper read: “The Guise of Equality, the Coolie Traffic to Cuba, and Robert Hart’s Role in The Cuba Commission Report (1876)” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Vancouver, Canada, May 2023.

 2022    Paper read: “The Cuba Commission Report (1874) and Racial Polarization: The Limits of Mestizaje in 19th-Century Cuba”. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Virtual Conference, May 2022.

 2022    Paper Read: “The Cuba Commission Report (1874) and Racial Polarization: The Limits of Mestizaje in 19th-Century Cuba”. Latin American Studies Association/Asia 2022 Virtual Congress, February 2022.

 2021    “Counternarratives of Slavery in Cuba and Brazil: Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía de un esclavo and Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua”. Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 2021.

 2020    Paper accepted. “Writing Cuban Slavery: Travel Accounts by Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo and Maturin Murray Ballou”. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY, April 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID)

 2020    Paper accepted. “Selling Writing about Nineteenth-Century Cuban Slavery”. Calibanías Caribbean Studies Conference. Milwaukee, WI, April 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID)

 2019    Paper read: “Lost Voices within Lost Voices: Slaves in Nineteenth-Century, Cuban Costumbrismo”. Modern Language Association International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2019.

 2019    Panel discussant: “Exploring Jewish Women’s Voices”. Modern Language Association International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2019.

 2018    Paper read: “Autobiographical Transgressions: Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiography”. Inaugural Calibanías Conference in Caribbean Literature and Culture, Milwaukee, WI, April 2018.

 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS

 2024    Electronic Course Revision Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, $5,000

2022-2023       Visiting Faculty Fellow, Weinberg College Center for International and Area

Studies, Northwestern University (Sabbatical Research Support)

2023    Travel Grant from Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to attend LASA Convention in Vancouver, Canada ($500)

2023    Faculty Development Award, Marquette University, $1000.00 for conference travel

2022    Faculty Development Award, Marquette University, $1000.00 for conference travel.

2021    Principal Investigator, Modern Language Association Humanities Innovation Grant, “Taller de español médico/Medical Spanish Workshop at Marquette University”, $3000. Not awarded.

2021    Gettel Award for Course Development, “Spanish for Non-Profits”, $750

2021    Team member, “Restorative Justice in Movement: Trauma-Informed Athletic Practice Partnership”, PI: Dr. Noelle Bridgen; President’s Challenge for Racial Justice Response Funding, $50,000

2020    Gettel Research Award, $1,000 to support summer research

2019    Faculty Development Award, $1,000 to support international conference travel

2017    Gettel Research Award, $250 to support summer research

2017    Faculty Development Award, $1400 to support international conference travel

 Pre-Tenure at Marquette University:

2011    National Endowment for the Humanities, Nominated by Marquette University for Summer Stipend

2010    Summer Faculty Fellowship ($4730)

2010    Spring Semester Release from Teaching for Research, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

2009    Travel Grant from Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to attend MMLA Convention ($500; Grant returned because of medical emergency)

2008    Travel Grant from Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to attend MMLA Convention ($500; Grant returned because of medical emergency)

2008    CIBER Scholarship to attend Spanish Faculty Development in International Business Workshop at the University of South Carolina ($500)

2007    Travel Grant from Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to attend MMLA Convention ($500)

2007    Gettel Research Award from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for summer research ($250)

2006    Gettel Research Award from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for summer research ($500)

2006    Faculty Development Award for summer research, 2007 ($5,000)

2006    Summer Faculty Fellowship for summer research, 2006 ($5,500)