Dissertation
"Cultural Semiosis in 'Mexicana' and 'Chicana' Writing: Analysis of Signs, Language and Popular Myths within the Narrative of Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Female Writers." Ann Arbor, 2001.
Dissertation Director: Floyd Merrell.
Areas of Teaching
- Latin American Literature and Culture
- Hispanic Literature and Culture of the U.S.
- Spanish for Professions
- Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Courses taught at KSU
SPAN 568 (Introduction to Hispanic American Literature)
SPAN 420 (Advanced Spanish Conversation)
SPAN 560 (Chicano Literature and Culture)
SPAN 569/779 (Twentieth Century Mexican Film).
SPAN 760 (Latino Literature and Culture in the U.S.)
SPAN 530 (Spanish for Professions with Emphasis in Health).
MLANG 710 (Introduction to Foreign Language Pedagogy)
SPAN 566 (Hispanic American Civilization)
SPAN 520 (Hispanic Readings).
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Areas of Research
- Mexican Women's Literature and Culture and Latinas in the U.S.
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Publications
The Story of the Mexican Screenplay: A Study of the Invisible Genre and Interviews with Women Screenwriters. Book in progress.
“National Myths and Archetypal Imagery in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate.” Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate: Perspectives. Rodopi Press, forthcoming 2009.
"Making Community in Juarez: A Cultural Analysis of Feminine Expressions of Resistance in Literature and Film." Letras Femeninas. 34.1(2008): 77-96.
“We Are All Maliche: The Construction and Collapse of the Mexican National Mother in Contemporary Literature and Film.”(M)othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories Through the Maternal Body. Eds. Lisa
E. Bernstain and Pamela Monaco. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming, 2008.
Cultural Semiosis in “Mexicana” and “Chicana” Writing: Analysis of Signs, Language and Popular Myths within the Narrative of Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Female Writers. Ann Arbor, Dissertation-Abstracts-International, 2001.
“Importancia de la cultura popular en la literatura de México: la Tragicomedia mexicana de José Agustín.” Cuadernos de Aldeeu 12, 1 (1996): 89-96.
“La simbología y el inconsciente de Alfonsina Storni: Análisis semiótico de dos dramas infantiles.” Romance Languages Annual7 (1995): 536-39.
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Recent Conferences
12/08 “Transnational Terror on Poor Women: The Femicide in Juárez.” Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering. Murdoch University/Curtin University of Technology. December 3, 2008. Perth, Western Australia.
8/08 “Globalizing Terror: A Film Analysis of the Commodification and Consumption of the Femicide in Juárez, Chihuahua. Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies. Universidad Iberoamerican. August 30, 2008. Puebla, Mexico.
2/08 “Elusive Notions of Nation.” Nuestra America in the U.S.? U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference. University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS.
9/07 "Transgressing the Mexican Eve: An Analysis of the National Mother in Literature and Film." University of Basel, Switzerland.
3/07 “The Politics of Screen Entertainment in Mexico and the U.S: A Cultural Analysis on Banned Films in ‘Democratic’ Societies.” 16th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Kansas State University; Manhattan, Kansas.
9/06 “The Polysemic Notion of Nation: Cuba from José Martí to Cristina Garcia. 31st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. West Lafayette, IN.
4/06 “From chaos to Order: An Analysis of Female Networks of Cooperation and Resistance in Latin America.” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Lexington, KY.
3/06 “The Feminine Dynamics of Irony and Parody in the Poetry of Lillian Van Den Broeck and Myriam Moscona.” Annual Conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Austin, TX.
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Other Interests
- Latin American Studies and Semiotics
- Border Literature and Culture
- Hispanic Cultural Studies
- Women of Color Studies
- Subaltern studies
- Film Studies
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