Areas of expertise
Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture.Education
Ph D, University of Michigan 2002
Positions
January 01, 2011 - present
Fall 2008 to present Southwestern University, Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Research
My
main research interest is the fictional recreation of the collective past
through written and visual narratives. I focus on the ways
traditional and contesting pluralistic approaches to history through fiction
articulate the purposes of a dialogic cultural discourse and create the notion
of the collective construction of historical memory
Publications
Seminars & Presentations
“Cultural Memory and the Fictional Portrayal of the Latin American Past on Television". International Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Research, July 24-28, 2012. Paris, France.
“Construcción narrativa de la realidad en el cuento contemporáneo de la revolución mexicana”. 54 International Congress of Americanists, July 15-20, 2012. University of Viena, Austria.
Miguel Hidalgo entre textos: retazos de la historia de México en la ficción televisiva 1996-2010. XVII Congreso de Mexicanistas Juan Bruce-Novoa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine. April 28-30, 2011.
El pasado nacional como construcción narrativa o la historia es una telenovela. Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction. University of West Georgia, Nov 12-14, 2009.
La telenovela histórica o el mural animado de la historia de México at the Latin American Studies Association conference, June 11-14, 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Groups & Affiliations
LASA
MLA