Education:

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1992

M.A., University of Connecticut, 1987

Licenciada en Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1985

Course Offerings:

Span 201- Intermediate Spanish 1

Span 202 - Intermediate Spanish 2

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation

Span 302 - Aspects of Spanish Culture

Span 305 - Introduction to Literary Genres

Span 311 - Survey of Spanish Literature 2

Span 403 - 19th Century Peninsular Literature

Span 404 - 20th Century Spanish Narrative

SPAN 406 Modern Spanish Drama

Span 421 - 20th Century Spain Through Film

Span 461 - 19th and 20th Century Women Writers of Spain

Primary Research Interests:

19th- and 20-th Century Spanish Literature

Spanish Women Writers

Recent Publications:

"Recapturing a Lost Time: The Artist's Depcition of Postwar Spain." Interfaces 19/20 (2002):205-223.

Entre la crisis generacional y el éxtasis sexual: el dilema femenino en Atlas de geografía humana de Almudena Grandes." Romance Studies 20:2 (2002): 129-144.

"Apocalipsis y ecologismo: de Paisajes después de la batalla a La saga de los Marx de Juan Goytisolo." Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 26 (2001): 29-60.

"El mismo mar de todos los veranos y Nubosidad variable: hacia la consolidación de una identidad femenina propia y discursiva." Letras Peninsulares 13 (2000): 581-607.