Teaching Experience:
Spring 2002: Visiting Instructor for Spanish 202, MSU.
Summer 2001: Teaching Assistant for Spanish 201, MSU. My duties included teaching first-year Spanish following a
    communicative model, developing day-to-day activities, preparing presentations relating to hispanic culture, designing
    quizzes and exams and evaluating student compositions.
Fall 1998-Fall 2000: Teaching Assistant for Spanish 101-102, MSU.
Summer 1998: Volunteered as a teacher of Spanish and basic math in the Casa Tatic, a charity organization for homeless
    children in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Fall 1995-Spring 1998: Teaching Assistant for IAH 201 “The United States and the World,” MSU.  My duties included
    designing quizzes and syllabi, conducting whole class and group discussions, conducting a computer lab with a CD-ROM,
    responding to student compositions and teaching writing skills.
Fall 1994: Teaching Assistant for IAH 221C “Great Ages of the Modern World,” MSU.  My duties included conducting
    discussion sessions, correcting essay exams and responding to student compositions.

Grants and Awards:
Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship, Fall-Winter 2001.
Tinker Field Research Grant, Michigan State University, Summer 2001.
Merit Fellowship, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, Fall 2000.
Assistant to the Coordinator, Overseas Study Program at Alcalá de Henares, Spain, May 31-July 31, 1999.
Awarded the Kenneth R. Scholberg Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Hispanic
    Literature, Romance and Classical Languages, Spring 1999.
Nominated for the Michigan State University Excellence-In-Teaching Citation by Dr. Ken
    Waltzer, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts and Humanities,
     Fall 1998.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Summer 1998.
Departmental Prize from the Graduate Affairs Committee, Romance and Classical
    Languages, for a scholarly paper competition, Spring 2000, 1999 and 1997.
Graduate Fellowship for Summer Study, Romance and Classical Languages, Spring 1997.

Service:
Served as Coordinator of the First Annual TROPOS Graduate Student Literary Conference, November 18, 2000.
Served on the Editorial Board of TROPOS, the literary journal of the Department of Romance and Classical
    Languages, 1999-2001.
Student Representative, Advisory Committee, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, 1998-1999.
Student Representative, Faculty Committee, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, 1997-1998.
Was one of two student representatives on a committee to determine the requirements for the Graduate
    Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spring 1997.

Conferences:
"Imágenes milenaristas en las novelas revolucionarias de Mariano Azuela" at the VIII Jornadas
    Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales en México y América, Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Mexico City, July 2001.
"Looking Back to the End of Time:  Millennial Imagery in two Mexican Indigenous Novels" at the 11th Annual
    Colloquium of Spanish and Portuguese Literature, University of Texas at Austin, March 2001.
"The Question of Subaltern Expression in the Autobiografía of Juan Francisco Manzano, a Cuban Slave,"
    Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, September 1999.
"Gender and Social Convention in Two Comedias of Lope de Vega" at the 104th Annual Michigan Academy
    Conference, Grand Valley State University, March 1999.
"Una gente sin patria: The Border as Literary Space in Peregrinos de Aztlán" at the first annual Literature
    of the Americas Conference, Michigan State University, February 1998.
"El alimento de los Zopilotes: el subalterno mexicano en dos novelas de la Revolución" at the V Jornadas
    Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales en México y América, Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Mexico City, July 1998.
"El nuevo mundo de Cristóbal Nonato y la profecía de México contemporáneo" at the Kentucky Foreign
    Language Conference, April 1998.
"Carlos Fuentes and the Fantastic: A Symbolic Reconstruction" at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance
    Languages and Literatures at the University of  Cincinnati, May 1996.
“Working With Bakhtin Today” Conference at Penn State University, July 1995, (member of Professor Caryl
    Emerson's table).

Publications: "Mexican Literature" forthcoming in Michigan Journal of Social Sciences (Fall 2002).

Languages:  Near-native Spanish fluency.  Advanced ability in Brazilian Portuguese.

Memberships and Professional Organizations:  Modern Language Association (since 1994); American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (1998); Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (1998); Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honor Society (2001).