Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2012
M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2007
Foreign Language Teacher Certification K–12, Southern Connecticut State University, 2003
B.A., Spanish / B.S., Finance, Rutgers University, 2001
Exploring the Spanish-Speaking World (SPA 2320)
Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPA 3305)
Monograph
The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016.
Edited Volumes
Co-edited with Rafael Acosta de Arriba. La escritura de Leonardo Padura. Madrid: Instituto Cervantes, 2021.
Articles
“José Antonio Saco: An Early Critic of Anti-Semitism.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (Spring 2019): 609–626.
“‘La relación de sus males, [y] el medio de curarlos’: Transamerican Models of Slave-Labor Organization in José Antonio Saco’s Análisis de una obra sobre el Brasil.” Dirāsāt Hispānicas. Revista Tunecina de Estudios Hispánicos (June 2016): 79–92.
“Deleuzo-Guattarian Becoming in Cristina Rivera Garza’s La cresta de Ilión.” Letras Femeninas (Winter 2016): 116–132.
“The Cuban Anti-Antislavery Genre: Anselmo Suárez y Romero’s Colección de artículos and the Policy of Buen Tratamiento.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 68.1 (June 2015): 59–75.
“Racial Alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s La cuarterona.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 44.1 (May 2015): 119–135.
“La hibridación en las Cartas de Luis de Carvajal, el Mozo.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 31.1 (Winter 2015): 1–21.
“Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetic Response to the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.” Hipertexto 19 (Winter 2014): 31–42.
“Ragpickers of Modernity: Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar and Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.3 (October 2013): 533–559.
“The Discourse of Jewish Differences in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society 17.2 (Winter 2011): 80–100.
Book Chapters
“The Image of the Jew in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Fiction.” In Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America (forthcoming).
“Repetir Guillén: Tres tentativas sobre Nicolás Guillén en el siglo veintiuno.” In Nicolás Guillén y El son entero: Miradas desde el siglo XXI. Ana Gloria Chouciño Fernández and Ana María González Marfud, eds. (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2018): 173–198.
“The Cuban Protest Song from Pablo Milanés to Los Aldeanos.” In Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism. Lindsay Michie Eades and Eunice Rojas, eds. (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013): 397–421.