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Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA, Expected June 2024
Specialization: 20th Century Mexican literature, Cristero and Rural Narratives
Dissertation Title: Memorias construidas, traumas colectivos y comunidades destruidas: la manifestación y mitificación de la Guerra Cristera (1926-1929) en Juan Rulfo, Agustín Yáñez y Jesús Goytortúa
Committee: Dr. Maarten van Delden (Chair), Dr. Jorge Marturano, Dr. Patricia Arroyo Calderón, Dr. Fernando Pérez-Montesinos and Dr. Patrícia Lino
M.A. Spanish Literature, UCLA, 2019
B.A. Spanish Literature, UCLA, 2016
Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany), 2012-2013
Specialization: Internacional Relations and Cultures
Teaching
University of California, Los Angeles (Fall 2018- present)
Instructor of Record (Designed Course)
Cluster 48C, Dialectics of a Forgotten War: Mexico, Memory and Trauma of the Cristero War, Spring 2023, Spring 2024 (Forthcoming)
Sole instructor
Spanish 7B, Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Winter 2024
Spanish 3 Asynchronous, Elementary Spanish 2023
Spanish 4/5, Granada Study Abroad Intensive Intermediate Spanish, Summer 2022
Spanish 25, Advanced Spanish Comp, Winter 2022, Spring 2022
Spanish 7A, Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Summer 2021
Spanish 27, Advanced Spanish Comp for Heritage Speakers, Spring 2021,
Spanish 7B, Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Summer 2020
Spanish 3, Elementary Spanish, Spring 2020
Spanish 5, Intermediate Spanish, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Spanish 3, Elementary Spanish, Spring 2019, Summer 2019
Spanish 2, Elementary Spanish, Winter 2019
Spanish 1, Elementary Spanish, Fall 2018
Teaching Fellow
Spanish 44, Latin American Cultures, Fall 2023
Cluster 48B, Political Violence in the Modern World, Winter 2023-Present
Cluster 48A, Political Violence in the Modern World, Fall 2022
Teaching Associate
Spanish 42, Iberian Cultures, Fall 2021
Spanish 120, Literature in Historical Context, Winter 2021
Spanish 44, Latin American Cultures, Fall 2020
Teaching Development Training
AI: Benefits and Challenges for Language Programs, February 2024
Asynchronous Teaching Methods Workshop, June 2023
Grading Equity Workshop, October 2021
Advanced Composition Workshop, May 2021
Heritage Language Pedagogy Workshop, May 2021
Teaching Heritage Speakers Workshop, January 2020
Race, Identity, and Engagement in a Diverse College Classroom, November 2019
Bias and Inclusion Workshop, April 2019
Implicit Bias and Diversity Workshop, February 2019
Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity in the Language Classroom Workshop, October 2018
Publications
“Santificación, habladuría y destierro: la posguerra Cristera y la mujeres de ‘Anacleto Morones’, de Juan Rulfo”. Coloquio “El cuerpo femenino en la literatura mexicana: aliado o enemigo”. UDLAP. Puebla, Mexico. Forthcoming.
“Mariquita“. Párrafo. University of California, Los Angeles. 2022.
“Masculinidad, antisemitismo y nación en María de Jorge Isaacs”. In Mester, 47(1), University of California, Los Angeles. 2018.
Presentations
"Poderío central, apocalipsis campesino y la (¿contra?)revolución Cristera mexicana; el caso en dos novelas de Agustín Yáñez". Latin American Studies Association. Bogotá, Colombia. Accepted.
“Comunidades rearticuladas: el pueblo cristero en la novela Pensativa de Jesús Goytortúa Santos”. 29 Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. University of Texas, El Paso; Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico; El Paso, Texas, USA. March 1, 2024.
“Ghost of the Revolution: Jalisco and the Cristero War”. Lecture. Latin American Cultures. UCLA. November 9, 2023.
“Mártires charlatanes: el caso de mujeres en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo”. Congreso Internacional de Literatura Mexicana: S. XVII-XXI. UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico. October 25, 2023.
“Santificación, habladuría y destierro: la posguerra Cristera y la mujeres de ‘Anacleto Morones’, de Juan Rulfo”. Latin American Studies Association. Vancouver, Canada. May 25, 2023. Selected Presentation.
“Santificación, habladuría y destierro: la posguerra Cristera y la mujeres de ‘Anacleto Morones’, de Juan Rulfo”. Coloquio “El cuerpo femenino en la literatura mexicana: aliado o enemigo”. UDLAP. Puebla, Mexico. October 20, 2022. Selected Presentation.
Medio ambiente campesino: metáforas campesinas y la modernidad explotadora en “Entre la piedra y la flor” de Octavio Paz. Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, USA. May 07, 2022. Selected presentation.
“Traumas en los campos de Jalisco: Las mujeres de Rulfo en Pedro Páramo”. Lecture. Literature in Historical Context. UCLA. February 10, 2021. Selected presentation.
“La raíz en que emana: Federico García Lorca”, Invited Guest Lecture, Literary Masterpieces of Spain, CSULB, November 24, 2020. Selected presentation.
“¡Con qué Mambelle, Mambelle, oh!” Lydia Cabrera y los orígenes afrocubanos en Cuentos negros de Cuba. Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Mexico. May 13, 2020. Selected presentation.
“Los traumas del llano: La Guerra Cristera en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo”. Symposium Presentation. Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Justice in Central American and Mexican Culture. UCLA. March 18, 2018
Funding
LAI Graduate Student Summer 2022 Research Grant, Mellon Foundation, 2022
Dean’s Scholar Summer Grant, 2018-2019
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Fellowship, 2017-2018
Service
Párrafo, Editor-in-Chief, 2021-Present
Mester, Editor, 2021-2023
UAW 2865, Department Steward, 2021-2022
GOAL, Mentor and Event Organizer, 2019-2021
“What is Grad School?” Roundtable, April 2021
Imposter Syndrome Roundtable, April 2021
Hidden Curriculum Workshop, February 2021
Coping with Covid Workshop, February 2021
Fall Netflix Party, November 2020
Halloween Netflix Party, October 2020
Welcome Mixers, Organizer, October 2020
Hidden Curriculum Workshop, September 2020
Spanish Conversation Hour, Lead Organizer, July 2020- September 2020
The Art Transferring Skill Workshop, Lead Organizer, August 2020
Life After the BA Workshop, Lead Organizer, July 2020
Career Paths in Education Workshop, Lead Organizer, May 2020
Undergraduate Research Workshop, Panelist, February 2020
Imposter Syndrome Workshop, Panelist, January 2020
8th Annual Latin American and Iberian Film Festival, Organizer, January-March 2021
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association, 2019- Present
Treasurer, May 2021-Present
Motus Sodalis, May 2021-Present
Undergraduate Liaisons, April 2020-2021
Cohort Union Representative, October 2019- April 2020
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Peer Mentor, 2019-2020
Mester, Guest Editor, 2017-2018
Digital Skills
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Google: Google Drive, Google Slides, Google Sites, Google AI
Web Design: WordPress, Github Pages, Basic HTML & CSS
Research Tools: Zotero, Scrivener, GoodNotes, Liquid Text, Evernote
Content Management Systems: Mobirise, Github, Atom
Learning Management Systems: Moodle, CCLE, Slack
Data Visualization and Mapping: Flourish, Tableau, ArcGIS, Voyant Tools, Basic R
Languages
Spanish- English, Bilingual
Portuguese, advanced
French, intermediate
Russian, intermediate
Profesional Associations
Latin American Studies Association, 2018-Present
Modern Language Association, 2020-Present