Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Graduate Studies
Education
Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Rutgers University, 2010. (Graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University.)
M.A., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Rutgers University, 2004.
Licenciatura en Letras con mención en Lingüística y Literaturas Hispánicas, Catholic University of Chile, 2000.
Research/ Teaching Interests
- 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture
- Intellectual history
- Transatlantic cultural networks
- Visual culture
- Queer theory and Gender studies
Personal Statement
My research and teaching interests include modern Latin American literature and culture, with particular attention to gender studies, intellectual history, transnational/ transatlantic networks of writers and archives.
My book, Artesana de sí misma: Gabriela Mistral, una intelectual en cuerpo y palabra (Purdue UP, 2018) re-evaluates the place of Mistral in the literary and intellectual history of Latin America. Moving beyond her amply discussed poetry, I have argued and demonstrated that her successful transnational networking along with her self-representation through her essays and visual performance played a fundamental role in her positioning as a Latin American female intellectual.
My current book project, Queer Networks: Latin American and Spanish Writers, Artists and Patrons in the First Half of the XXth Century, maps a network of queer Latin American and Spanish women artists, writers, and patrons who lived away from their countries, traveled, and challenged heterosexual norms of family, sexuality, reproduction, and economic dependency.
Selected Professional Achievements
Recent Publications
- “Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX.” (Cuadernos de Literatura 42, 2017)
- “Redes transatlánticas y estrategias de profesionalización en Gabriela Mistral, Carmen Conde y Concha Espina (1932-1936).” No hay nación para este sexo. La Re(d)pública transatlántica de las Letras: escritoras españolas y latinoamericanas (1824-1936). Ed. Pura Fernández. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015. 369-388.
- “Tejiendo un sueño americano: el poder de las redes de Gabriela Mistral con los Estados Unidos en los años 20 y 30.” Redes, alianzas y afinidades: escritura de mujeres en América Latina, siglo XIX y XX. Eds. Carolina Alzate and Darcie Doll. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes; Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 2014. 85-104.
- “Identidades artísticas modernas y alianzas transatlánticas: Maruja Mallo, Gabriela Mistral y Victoria Ocampo.” Ínsula. Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, 841-842 (2017):40-44.
- “Las mal ubicadas: intervenciones en la modernidad en la prosa de Alfonsina Storni y Gabriela Mistral.” Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Octubre (2016): 105-130.
- “La letra y el cuerpo: la imagen visual de Gabriela Mistral de 1905 a 1922.” Revista Iberoamericana 250 Enero-Marzo (2015): 161-182.
Selected Honors and Awards
- NEH Summer Stipend Award, 2019
- Regular Faculty Research Award, UNCG 2017.
- Kohler International Research Award, UNCG, summer 2017.
- James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence, UNCG, 2015-2016.
- College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, UNCG, 2015.
