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.
“Negotiating Double Binds and Double Consciousness in Beneath Us (2010).” Latina/o Studies Association Conference, South Bend IN, July 2022
"Intergenerational Female Violence in La Llorona (2019)." Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Conference, May 2022
“Grim Virtual Realities in Sleep Dealer (2008) and Culture Shock (2019).” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual Conference, March 2022
“A Picture Says One Thousand Words.” Kentucky World Language Association, Virtual Conference, September 2021
“The Politics of Diversity, Inclusion, and Colorblindness in Coco (2017).” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual Conference, March 2021
Invited Talks and Lectures
Guest Lecture: “Understanding Latinidad and Cultural Productions in the U.S. South.” Undergraduate seminar of Professor Arcelia Gutiérrez: Spanish 474, “Latinx in Media & Popular Culture.” University of Kentucky, April 2021
Honors and Awards
Association of Emeriti Faculty Endowed Fellowship, 2022
Outstanding Service to the Department Award, 2022
Three Minute Thesis Dissertation Defense (3MT) People’s Choice Award, 2021
College of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 2021
McCrary Award Outstanding Second-Year Graduate Student, 2020
Hispanic Studies Award for Second-Year Teaching Assistant, 2020
Hispanic Studies Summer Travel Grant, 2019
Memberships
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI)
Feministas Unidas
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Latina/o Studies Association (LSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS; Latinx and Horror Studies)
