Education:

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

M.A. University of Notre Dame, 1999

B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1998

Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos, Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain, 1996

Course Offerings:

Span 102 - Elementary Spanish 2

Span 103 - Intensive Elementary Spanish

Span 202 - Intermediate Spanish 2

Span 311 - Survey of Spanish Literature 2

Primary Research Interests:

Identity and Gender in 20th-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature

Interaction of Literature and Politics

Heritage Speakers in the Foreign Language Classroom

Works in Progress :

"The Cult of Motherhood in the Fiction of Carmen de Burgos."

"Political Maneuvering in the Fiction of Carmen de Burgos: The Question of Divorce."