Position Title
Lecturer of Spanish
Position Title
Lecturer of Spanish
611 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 26: Monday and Wednesday 1 - 2 pm and by appointment
If planning on attending office hours, email me beforehand so I know to expect you.
In-person and remote
If planning on attending office hours, email me beforehand so I know to expect you.
In-person and remote
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- M.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- B.A., UC Berkeley
Courses
- Intermediate Spanish (University of Michigan)
- Spanish Conversation through Film (University of Michigan)
- Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Culture and the Arts (University of Michigan)
- Spanish Psychiatry in Film and Literature, 1808 - the present (University of Michigan)
- Poetics of Illness in Spanish Literature and Art (University of Michigan)
- Hispanic Poetry and Ecologies (University of Michigan)
Research Interests & Expertise
- Modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture
- Post-Franco Spain; poetry and poetics
- Equatorial Guinea
- film and visual culture
- memory and historicity
- illness and embodiment
- mental illness and psychiatry
- contagions, toxicity
- critical theory, psychoanalysis
Publications
- “Inviting o mal d’ollo: Lyrical Hospitality and the Event of the Hospital in Rosalía de Castro’s El primer loco (1881).” Hispanic Review. Vol. 94.3. July 2026.
- “Buñuel’s Messy Law and the Extimate Image in El ángel exterminador and La mort en ce jardin.” Hispanic Research Journal. Iberian and Latin American Studies. Vol. 23.1. April 2022.
- “’Unha húmida mensaxe de vida e de furia necesaria’: Textual Surplus and Living / On in Lois Pereiro’s Poesía última de amor e enfermidade (1992-1995)”. In Narrating Illness in Spanish Literature and Culture, edited by Nuria Godón and Carrie Ruiz, Vanderbilt University Press. Forthcoming.