Education:

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

M.A., Middlebury College

B.A., Lycoming College

Course Offerings:

Span 201-202 - Intermediate Spanish

Span 301 - Composition and Conversation

Span 305 - Introduction to Literary Genres

Span 312 - Survey of Spanish American Literature I

Span 313 - Survey of Spanish American Literature II

Span 405 - Modern Latin American Narrative

Span 408 - Gabriel García Márquez

Span 410 - Literature of Exile, Immigration and Ethnicity

Span 399 - Special Topics: Exile in Cuban Literature

Span 399 - Special Topics: Latino Autobiography.

Span 399 - Special Topics: Cuban Women's Fiction of the 1990's.

Primary Research Interests:

US Cuban and Latino Literature

Cuban Literature

Caribbean Literature

Contemporary Latin American Narrative

Recent Publications:

Books:

Cuban-American Narratives of Exile: From Person to Persona. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 1998.

Discontinuidad y ruptura en Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Gaithersburg: Ediciones Hispamerica, 1983.

Articles (selected) :

"La lengua nómada: Orígenes y la diáspora de los 90." Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. Madrid: Vol. 33 (verano de 2004), pp. 265-74.

"A Reminiscent Memory": Lezama, Zoé Valdés and Rilke's Island". Modern Language Notes: Hispanic Edition 119.2 (2004): 344-62.

"Las raíces al desnudo: narradores cubanos en los Estados Unidos." In Literatura cubana en Estados Unidos. Ed. Laura P. Alonso and Fabio Murieta. Madrid: Editorial Aduana Vieja, 2004, pp.37-50.