Research
Recent publications:
My 2008 critical edition of
Antonio Vázquez
de Espinosa's 1623 travel narrative.
Read my synopsis or buy the book from
Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs.
My 2008 chapter entitled “Learning By Doing: Applying Language Classroom Techniques to the study of Las Casas.” In Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Las Casas. Ed. Santa Arias and Eyda M. Merediz. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
Read the synopsis or buy the book from the
Modern Language Association.
My 2009 (despite the publication date) article “La ética colonial tras las interpolaciones en la Luz y guía del cielo de Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa.”
In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Número 68, 2008.
Recent presentations:
"Jungian Archetypes and 'Merchant Stigma' in Colonial Spanish American Literature" Presented at the Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, February, 2009.
“Do As I Say, Not As They Do: Exemplarity in Vázquez de Espinosa’s Travel Narrative” Presented at annual conference of Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Austin, May 2008.
“From Ship to Screen: Bringing Colonial Historiography to Life.” Presented at the Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, April 2008.
“Baroque Aesthetics and Mexican Colonial Trauma: Las Casas and las iglesias” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Chicago, December 2007.
“Sinful Sailors and Greedy Governors: the Association of New World Commerce with Religious Transgression in Vázquez de Espinosa’s 1623 travel narrative.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association in Washington, D.C., December 2005.
“Chronology Meets Theology: Religious discourse in Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa’s Tratado verdadero del viaje y navegación.” Presented at the Gulf Coast Consortium of Latin American Colonialists Conference, Tulane University, 2005.
“De la pantalla silente a la palabra escrita: la influencia del cine mudo en Las Hortensias de Felisberto Hernández.” Presented at the New England Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Hartford, 2003.