Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures, UCLA. Dissertation: “Screening
Change: Globalizing Spain at 24 Frames per Second”
M.A. Spanish Literature, University of Florida
B.A. Spanish, San Francisco State University
Areas of Interest
Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Cultural
Studies
Publications
“All that Melodrama Allows: Sirk, Fassbinder, Almodóvar, Haynes.” In Dialogues with Hollywood. Ed. Paul Cooke. London: Palgrave. Forthcoming 2006.
“The Eyes of Ana.” Studies in European Cinema. Submitted for publication, Fall 2006.
"Time of Silence by Luis Martín-Santos." World Literature and Its Times 5: Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002, pp. 507-516.
“Implicaciones de la parodia de ‘The Purloined Letter’ de E.A.Poe en ‘La muerte y la brújula’ de J.L. Borges.” Mester 24.2 (1996).
Conferences
“Vision and Revision: The Cinematic Adaptation of El embrujo de Shanghai.” Paper proposed for CineLit VI, Portland State University, February 2007.
“Sirk/Fassbinder/Almodóvar/ Haynes: Melodramatic Crossings.” Second International Conference on Latin(o)American and Iberian Cinemas. University of Hawaii at Manoa, November 4, 2005.
“Julio Medem: Projections of Desire.” Brown Bag Biography Series. University of Hawaii at Manoa. April 22, 2004.
“Exclusion and Enclosure: Marginalization in Fernando León’s Barrio”, paper presented at the First International Conference on Latin(o)American and Iberian Cinemas. University of Hawaii at Manoa. November 6, 2003.
“The Americanization of European Cinema.” Guest Lecture presented at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, April, 2003.
“Exclusion and Enclosure: Marginalization in Fernando León’s Barrio”, paper presented at Space and Place: 3rd Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum, University of Bath, England, April, 2003.
“Using the Module Maker.” 2001 Forum, Scholarship in a New Media Environment (SIANME). UCLA, October 19, 2001.
“Acción mutante: The Americanization of Spanish Cinema?” CHISPA Conference, Baton Rouge, LA. Feb. 20, 1998.
“Mímesis cinemática en la narrativa española contemporánea: Humphrey Bogart and “the Memories of the Senses.” MLA Convention, Toronto, Canada. Dec.29, 1997.
“El juego y la infinitud. Borges a todo azar.” UCLA Graduate Colloquium, May 23, 1996.
Courses:
Composition, Conversation, Spanish Cultural Perspectives, Masterworks of 19th & 20th Century Spanish Literature,
Contemporary Spanish Novel, 19th Century Realism and Naturalism, Spanish Film, Film and Literature, Generation of 98, Contemporary Culture: Spain and Portugal
