Areas I Teach
Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
M.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Nevada, Reno, 2004
B.A., Modern Languages and Literatures, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 2003
Courses I teach at Pacific U:
SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 303W Introduction to Literature
SPAN 315W Advanced Grammar and Composition
SPAN 406 The Invention of Cuba
WORL 325 Mentoring and Tutoring in the Languages
Recent Publications
鈥淏ecoming Casal. Itinerant Identities in 20th Century Cuban Poetry.鈥 Book manuscript in progress.
鈥淐reator not Muse: 鈥楯uana Borrero鈥 by Juli谩n del Casal.鈥 贬颈蝉辫补苍贸蹿颈濒补,&苍产蝉辫;vol. 204, 2025, p9.. 55-71.
Review of Azares de lo cubano. Lecturas al margen de la naci贸n by Montero, 脫scar J. Ciberletras,
January 2023, pp. 140-43.
鈥淎n Improbable Precursor: Reassessing Poveda's negrismo." Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 38, no.
1, 2019.
鈥淏ecoming Casal: Jos茅 Manuel Poveda鈥檚 鈥淐anto 茅lego鈥 and 鈥淧ara la lectura de las
Rimas de Juli谩n del Casal.鈥 Ciberletras vol. 41, 2019, pp. 24-37.
鈥淓l alma cubana de Jos茅 Manuel Poveda.鈥 Confluencia, vol. 34, no. 1, 2018, pp. 36-46.
鈥淣omadic Identity and lo cubano in Jos茅 Manuel Poveda.鈥 Latin American Literary
Review, vol. 44, no. 87, 2017, pp. 16-23.
鈥淕ender and Poetic Voice in Alma Rubens.鈥 Chasqui, vol. 46, no. 1, 2017, pp. 167-77.
鈥淗ablar de la nieve: Intertextualidad en Juli谩n del Casal y Fina Garc铆a Marruz.鈥 La Habana Elegante, vol. 53, 2013. Web.
"The Case of Alma Rubens or the Trans-Gendered Imagination in Jos茅 Manuel Poveda." Rocky Mountain Review, vol. 67, no. 1, 2013, pp. 27-40.