Position Title
Lecturer of Comparative Literature
Selected Publications
“The Chiapas Jaguar as Symbol of Maya Resintencia – Resistance and Intention.” The Latin Americanist, 2021. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/787739/summary
“Borges y la Cosmovisión Indígena.” The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article=1053&context=tqc
“Balance and Respect vs. Commodification and Control: Conflicting Values in the Work of Maya-Tsotsil Author Mikel Ruiz.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2017. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58q1190g
Chiapas Maya Awakening: Contemporary Poems and Short Stories, Oklahoma University Press, 2017 [editor, with Nicolás Huet Bautista, and translator].
Rooted/Uprooted: Identity in Chiapas Mayan and Mexican American Literature (master's thesis), 2012.
- B.A. in English with a German minor, College of William and Mary
- M.A. in English, San Diego State University
- COM 002 Major Books, Middle Ages to Enlightenment
- COM 003 Major Books, The Modern Crisis
- COM 004 Major Books, The Contemporary World
- COM 010 Master Authors in World Literature
- COM 151 Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
- NAS 005 Introduction to Native American Literature
- NAS 005A Writing Workshop
- Indigenous Mexican Literature
- Maya Literature and Languages
- Translation Studies
- Ecocriticism
- Chicano Literature
- Environmental Justice