Expertise

19th and 20th Century Mexican Prose and Poetry

Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Film – The Northeast

Contemporary Women Writers in Mexico and the Caribbean

Music and Literature in the Caribbean

Studies of Race and Gender

Mexican and Brazilian Popular Poetry and Folklore (“Corridos” and “Cordeles” )

Indigenous Thought and Aesthetics

Chicana and Latin American Feminist Intellectual Thought and Aesthetics

Cultural Studies: Intersections of Popular Cultural Production and High Art

Questions of Memory and National Identity

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Organizational Affiliations

A&S - Modern Languages & Literatures, College of A&S, Schools & Colleges, University of Miami

College of A&S, Schools & Colleges, University of Miami

Education

Hispanic Language and Literatures
2008, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
2001, MA, California State University
Spanish Literature
2000, MA, Middlebury College
Political Science
1996, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara