Education:

Ph.D. in Spanish, Harvard University, 2004

M.A. in Spanish, Harvard University, 1998

B.A. in Comparative Literature, Hamilton College, 1993

Course Offerings:

Span 105/6 - Directed Independent Elementary Spanish I, II

Span 201/2 - Intermediate Spanish I, II

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation

Span 305 - Introduction to Literary Genres

Span 362 - Special Topics: Literary Landscapes in Modern Spain

Span 399 - Modern Hispanic Landscapes

Primary Research Interests:

Gardens in Literature

Landscape and National Formation

19th-Century Urbanism

Romanticism, Realism and the Novel (Spain and Latin America)

Costumbrismo

Recent Publications:

"Public Gardens and Private Affairs in the Spanish Realist Novel." MLN 120 (2005): 314-334.