Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky (2023)
Certificates: Gender and Women’s Studies; Social Theory
M.A. Spanish, Bowling Green State University (2014)
Research and Teaching Areas
20th- and 21st-century Spanish, Latin American, Latinx, and U.S. cultural production
Film and media studies
Horror studies
Feminist and gender theory
Social Theory
Cultural and critical theory
Courses Taught
SPN 315: Introduction to Hispanic Studies
SPN 317: Business Spanish
SPN 325: Medical Spanish and Interpreting
SPN 362: Spanish America in a Global Context
SPN 381: Language and Society: Past and Present
SPN 451: The Spanish Civil War: Representations of Fascism, Silence, and Memory
SPN 490: Hispanic Horror Films (Senior Capstone)
Peer Review Articles
"What Happens When Precarity Comes Knocking?: The Persistence of el gran miedo of the Argentine Middle Class in Mariana Enriquez’s Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego." Romance Quarterly, (forthcoming January 2027). Co-written with Brittany Frodge
"The Colonial Sublime in Jayro Bustamante’s Trilogy: Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2019), and La Llorona (2019)." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, (forthcoming).
“The Politics of Diversity and Inclusion in Coco.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 51, no. 1, spring 2026, 19-46.
