Academic Year 2023-24


         FALL

  • Spa-101 | Elementary Spanish I
  • Spa-104 | Spanish for Heritage/Bilingual Speakers
  • Gen-130| Core I - Foundations of Critical Thinking
  • Spa-351 | Advance Spanish through Textual Analysis and Conversation
  • Spa-490 | Independent Study


         SPRING - on schedule.

  • Spa-102 | Elementary Spanish II
  • Spa-203 | Spanish for Heritage/Bilingual Speakers
  • Spa-353 | Spanish for Teaching
  • Spa-354 | Intercultural Communication and Digital Humanities
  • Gen| TBD.


Teaching Interests

  • All Levels of Spanish Language
  • Spanish for Heritage Speakers
  • Applied Spanish for the Professions
  • Translation and Interpreting;
  • Ethnolinguistics
  • Peninsular literary and cultural studies
  • US Latino literary and Cultural Studies
  • Afro-Hispanic literature with concentration in Guinean Equatorial
  • Race, Ethnicity, Whiteness Studies
  • Interdisciplinary Studies


Education

2016

PhD in Hispanic Studies

| The University of Kentucky

2013

PhD in Historia Moderna, Contemporánea, de América y del Arte

| Universidad de Cádiz

2009

Dual BA in Hispanic and Engish Philologies

| Universidad de Cádiz

2004

Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica de Profesorado de Enseñanza Secundaria

| Universidad de Cádiz

Academic Positions

2021 - to date

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Faculty Lead 

| Lakeland University

2016 - 2021

NTT Assistant Professor of Spanish

| Western Oregon University

2012 - 2016

Primary Instructor of Spanish

| the University of Kentucky

2006 - 2007

Secondary Instructor of Spanish

| Amherst College