Education
University of Kentucky, Ph.D. candidate, Hispanic Studies, August 2022
Dissertation title: Posthuman Ethics in the Science Fiction of Rosa Montero and Rita Indiana
University of Kentucky, M.A. in Hispanic Studies (Fall 2019)
Certificate in Social Theory (Fall 2019)
Ohio University, B.A., Spanish Language and Literature (Fall 2014)
Publications
“Do Androids Dream of Care Labor? Rosa Montero’s Bruna Husky Trilogy and Its Lessons for Cyborg Feminism,” Romance Notes. Forthcoming.
Conference Talks
“The Intersection Between Ecocriticism and Disability in Sordo (2019),” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2022.
“RainbowBright: Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé and Why Challenging the Gender Binary is Essential to Achieving a Brighter Ecological Future,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2021.
“Unbounded Consciousness and Immortality in Rosa Montero's Bruna Husky Trilogy,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Virtual, November 2020.
“Un aplauso para las modistas: Affective Labor and Emotional Alienation in El vestido de Boda,” 23rd Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, March 2020.
“Night and Romantic Epistemology in Noches lúgubres,” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2019.
“Una profundización deleuziana del potencial revolucionario de Redes (1937),” Visual and Artistic Manifestations in Literary and Cultural Studies, Tempe, Arizona, March 2018.
“The University Art Museum as a Learning Space for Language Acquisition,” Ohio Museums Association Conference, Athens, Ohio, May 2014.
Courses Taught
Pennsylvania State University
SPAN 2 Beginning Spanish 2
University of Colorado, Boulder
SPAN 3100 Literary and Cultural Analysis in Spanish (online)
SPAN 3000 Advanced Spanish Language Skills (online)
SPAN 1020 Beginning Spanish 2 (online)
SPAN 1010 Beginning Spanish 1 (online)
University of Kentucky
SPA 211 High Intermediate Spanish Conversation
SPA 210 High Intermediate Spanish Grammar
SPA 203 High Intermediate Spanish (course leader, Spring 2018)
SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish 3 (course leader, Spring 2017)
SPA 102 Elementary Spanish 2 (course leader, Fall 2017)
SPA 101 Elementary Spanish 1 (course leader, Fall 2018)
University of Kentucky, Teaching Assistant
SPA 371 Latin American Cinema
