Specializations / Research Interest(s)

Spain, 19-20th centuries, gender, narrative, translation,

Research Description

• Most of my research focuses on gender, sexuality, and discourse in Spain since the 19th century, with a focus on narrative and on the turn of the century (19th to 20th).  I am currently working on two major research projects.

  I am researching and analyzing the roles played by gender and race in the cultural discourses on the Spanish Empire at the fin de siglo,
  with a special emphasis on the Philippines.

  My  articles, "Framing
  Colonial Manliness, Domesticity, and Empire in 'Página suelta' and
  'Oscuramente'" (Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46.1: 3-24) and “Over Her
  Bloodless Body: Gender, Race, and the Spanish Colonial Fetish in Pardo Bazán,”  [Revista
  Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 34.2 (2010): 285-301] are components of this larger project.

   I am also working on a book, Writing Counterfeit Subjects: The Representation of Passing in Spain in collaboration with Sean McDaniel, a specialist in Early Modern Spanish studies. This book aims to question the theoretical limitations of analyses of passing in three ways: 1) it moves beyond current assumptions about which identity categories are crucial for the determination of subjectivity; 2) it moves from analyses of the passing act itself to a consideration of the significance of how the passing act is represented in discourse; 3) it adopts a diachronic approach, considering the shifts across time in which identity categories are portrayed as constitutive of the individual subject, and pondering the ebb and flow of passing narratives at different moments in Spanish history.

  Our co-authored articles, "Superficialidad, seriedad, passing, y Los intereses creados (Hecho Teatral 12, 2012, in press) and "La vergüenza de Don Alvaro" Ilustración al Romanticismo, XV Encuentro,  University of Cádiz, in press) are both parts of that project.

   

Education

• PhD, University of Southern California; MA and BA, University of Iowa

Distinctions / Awards

• Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award, 2000

Grants

• UIUC Center for Advanced Study Associate Research Grant, "Family Troubles: Spain and the Philippines in the Late Modern Empire," for fall 2012

External URLs

• http://www.senate.illinois.edu

Courses

• RECENT SEMINARS: Spain and the Philippines; Passing in Modern Spanish and Latin-American Texts
• FOR ALL SLCL GRADUATE STUDENTS: Professional/Academic Writing
• MIXED GRADUATE/UNDERGRADUATE: Spanish-English Translation Studies; 18-19th C. Spanish Studies; Spanish Studies 1898-1960
• UNDERGRADUATE: Spanish Literature II