Experience

• Wesleyan University

  Professor of Spanish

  I teach all areas of Spanish literature from the Enlightenment to the present. In my teaching and research, I focus especially on the performing arts in relation to other forms of cultural expression. I am particularly interesting in the relationship between the performing arts and migration, borders, identity formation, interculturalism and collective (historical) memory. I am currently working on a book-length study of the relationship between poetics and politics in the writings and artistry of Spain's premier, avant-garde era stage director, Cipriano de Rivas Cherif.

• Wesleyan University

  Director of Global Studies

  The proposal I submitted in 2014 for our new Fries Center for Global Studies was approved by Wesleyan's Board of Trustees in 2015. I was asked to implement this proposal, which was centered primarily on integrating four different offices: Study Abroad; Fellowships, Internships, and Exchanges; the Language Resource Center; and Languages and Intercultural Learning. We coordinate the work of these offices in order to advance the knowledge, language and intercultural skills, self-awareness, and empathy our community needs for responsible participation in an increasingly interdependent world.