Under Review
“(Sub)Versions of Discursive Power in Raúl Zurita’s Purgatorio.” Submitted to Hispanófila.

“That Happless Bird, That Strange and Fatal Myth: Correspondences between Enrique Lihn’s El Paseo Ahumada and Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne.”  Submitted to Hispanic Poetry Review.

In Progress
“‘Un [pequeño] dios’: Traces of Huidobro in Raúl Zurita’s Purgatorio and Anteparaíso.”

Spanish to English book translation, Poetics of the Oblique. By Jacobo Sefamí.

Conference Presentations
“The Self-Reflexivity of Carmen Berenguer’s Early Poetry.”  Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Tampa, Florida, April 2008.

“The Flesh Made Word/ The Word Made Flesh: Raúl Zurita as Savior in Purgatorio and Anteparaíso,” I Conference on Spanish and Hispanic-American Poetry, University of Virginia, November 2007.

“(Sub)Versions of Discursive Power in Raúl Zurita’s Purgatorio,” Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), San José, Costa Rica, April 2007.

“La luz de Prometeo: Baltasar y la renuncia al poder fálico,” VII Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Mexico City, July 2000.

“El deber sagrado del poeta: Zurita como fármakos,” Poetic Discourses at Play, UCI, April 2000.

“La coexistencia de rasgos modernos y postmodernos en Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo,” V Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Mexico City, July 1998.

“Rebirth and the Rainbow Symbol in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow,” Sigma Tau Delta Regional Conference, San Angelo, Texas, November 1996. (Outstanding Paper Award)

Teaching Positions
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of South Alabama, August 2007 - present
Instructor of Spanish, University of South Alabama, August 2006 - August 2007
Faculty Member Affiliate, Latin American Studies Program, University of South Alabama, August 2006 - present
Spanish Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine, September 2000 - June 2006
Spanish Instructor, Santiago Canyon Community College, January 2004 - May 2006
Spanish Teaching Assistant, Brigham Young University, August 1997 - May 1999

Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Seminars Taught
20th Century Spanish American Poetry

Undergraduate Courses Taught
Hispanic Literature for Non-majors
Introduction to Literature
Advanced Grammar
Advanced Composition
Intermediate Spanish
Beginning Spanish
Accelerated Spanish
Freshman Experience

Administrative
Coordinator, Lesser Taught Languages Program (formerly SILP), USA, August 2007 - present

Committee Chair, Undergraduate Scholarships, School of Arts and Sciences, USA, August 2008 - present

Webmaster, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, USA, August 2008 - present

Committee Member, Undergraduate Scholarships, School of Arts and Sciences, USA, 2007 - 2008

Committee Member, Undergraduate Education, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCI, 2004 - 2005

Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC), Instructional Resources Center, UCI, 2001 - 2003

Teaching Assistants’ Representative, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCI, 2001 - 2002

Committee Member, Graduate School Admissions, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCI, 2000 - 2001

President, Graduate Student Association of Spanish and Portuguese, BYU, 1998 - 1999

Editorial
Web Content Editor/Writer and Website Designer, UCI Teaching Resources Guide, Instructional Resources Center, UCI, project completed: March 2005

Editor, La Marca Hispánica, graduate student journal, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BYU, 1999

Advisory
Faculty Advisor, Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), USA, March 2007 - present

National Scholarship Referee, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society), 2006

Referee, Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, UCI, 2000 (Short Story), 2001 (Poetry), 2002 (Drama), 2004 (Short Story), 2005 (Poetry)

Other
Co-organizer, Poetic Discourses at Play 2001: Hispanic, U.S. Latino/a, and Luso-Brasilian Poetry Conference, UCI, April 2001

Community Outreach Workshop Participant, Humanities Out There (HOT), UCI, 2000

Volunteer Representative, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ecuador, November 1992 - October 1994

AWARDS

Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship, UCI, Spring quarter 2006

Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, School of Humanities, UCI, 2005

Graduate Research and Travel Grant, International Center for Writing and Translation, UCI, 2005 (funding for the study of Maya K’iche’ in Guatemala)

Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCI, 2001, 2002, and 2004

Excellence in Teaching and TA Mentoring, Division of Undergraduate Education Committee on Teaching and the IRC, UCI, 2002 and 2003

Regents’ Fellowship, UCI, 1999 - 2000

Outstanding Spanish Graduate Student, BYU, 1999