Romance and Classical Studies

Graduate Courses

• SPAN 6230 - Identity and History in Latin American Literature and Film
• SPAN 6260 - Issues in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture
• SPAN 6860 - Special Topic: Literature/Film on the U.S. Mexican border/immigration

Research Interests

• Nineteenth through Twenty-first Century Mexican Literature and Culture
• Subaltern and Cultural Studies
• Cultural History of Crime

Select Publications

• “La Malinche Speaks Back: Colonialism and Resistance in Ireneo Paz’s Doña Marina (1883).” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 89.5 (2012): 769-791.
• “Heraclio Bernal: Bandit Citizen.” Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production. 6.2 (2009): 46-63.
• “Mexican Banditry and Discourses of Class: The Case of Chucho el Roto.” Latin American Research Review 44.1 (2009): 5-31.
• “Manuel Lozada and the Politics of Mexican Barbarity.” Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies. 4 (2006): 27-44.