Visiones de exilio:
Para leer a Zoe Valdes. Lanham, Md.: University
Press of America, 2008.
Journal
articles
"New Approaches to
Afro-Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies: A review essay of
'Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of
Revolution,' by Sybille Fischer; 'Being and Blackness in Latin America:
Uprootedness and Improvisation,' by Patricia D. Fox; 'Escritura
afropuertoorriquea y modernidad,' by Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz; and 'The
Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory,' by Lucia m.
Suarez." Chasqui 38:2 (November 2009): 158-163.
Encyclopedia
entries
"Dana Chaviano"
(118-119) and "Yanitzia Canetti" (100-101), Latin American
Women Writers: An Encyclopedia, ed. Maria Claudia Andre and Eva
Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Book
reviews
Review of The Latin American
Urban America: Between Literature and Mass Culture by Esperanza
Bielsa. Studies in 20th and 21st Century Fiction 34 (1): 134-35 (winter
2010).
Review of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook edited by Gene H.
Bell-Villada. Studies in 20th and 21st Century Fiction 34 (1): 136-37
(winter 2010).
Review of Mainland Passage:
The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico by Ramon Soto-Crespo. Chasqui
39(2): 236-38 (November 2010).
Review of One World Periphery
Reads the Other: Knowing the "Oriental" in the Americas and
Iberian Peninsula, edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
Review of Exile and Cultural
Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 by
Sebastian Faber (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press,
2002). Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 32 (1): 211-13
(winter 2008).
Presentations
"Is There a Book Any
More?" Washburn Faculty Colloquium on the Book, November 2010
"We are in Kansas Now:
Reading the American Heartland in Spanish-speaking Literature at the end
of the 20th Century," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
Lexington, April 2010
"Misreading a
Minority Culture: Racism and Resistance in Victor Hugo Rascon-Banda's
La mujer que caya del cielo," Mid-American Conference on
Hispanic Languages, Lawrence, Kan., November 2009
"The Disengaged Engagement:
Alberto Ruy Sanchez's Cycle of Desire," Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2009
"All the Gardens in the
World: Alberto Ruy Sanchez's Los jardines secretos de Mogador,"
Faculty Colloquium on the Garden, Washburn, September-November 2008
Awards
and honors
Marquis Who's Who in American
Education 2008
Offices
and appointments
Editorial board, Caribbean
Voices e-journal
Grants
Sweet Sabbatical, Guarani
Language and Cultural Stage in Asuncion, Paraguay, June and July 2010
Community
involvement
Moderator, Latin American Cinema
Festival of Kansas City, Mo., 2010
Steering committee, USD 501,
2009-10
Workshop on Spanish language and
Latino culture, Marian Clinic, Topeka, February and March 2010
Workshop on portfolio assessment
for world languages high school instructors, Kansas State Department of
Education, Topeka, March 2010
Public
commentary
Interview in La Voz de Galicia
(Spanish journal), Jan. 6, 2010
Other
Reviewer, Hispania, Official
Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
