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Associate Professor of Spanish Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies, 2004-22 Appointments: Resident Director, UNC Charlotte Education Abroad, Kingston University (London) 2009-2010. Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Library and Gardens, Harvard University, Washington DC 2005-2006.
Education Ph.D., Princeton University, 2002 M.F.A., The Pennsylvania State University, Department of English, 1995 M.A., Hollins University, Department of English, 1986 A.B., Bowdoin College, Department of English, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude

Language(s):  Spanish

Current and Ongoing Research Interests

• Early Modern Hispanic Literature and Culture
• Theater and Performance Studies
• Gardens and Landscapes
• Iconography
• Gender and Women’s Studies

 Courses Taught (Selected)

• SPAN 6000 Cervantes: Don Quijote
• SPAN 6005 Constructing Identity in the Age of Discovery
• SPAN 6005 Mayhem, Marriage, and Murder: Theater in the Golden Age
• SPAN 4050/ 5050 Muero por ti: Love and Death from the Cid to María de Zayas
• SPAN 4050/ 5050 Hispanic Women Writers of the Early Modern Era
• SPAN 4205/ 5205 Rogues and Lovers of the Hispanic Empire
• SPAN 3211 Masterworks of Spanish Literature
• SPAN 3208 Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN 3019 Hispanic Women Writers in Translation