Assistant Professor of English

Education:
BA, English, University of South Florida, 1988;
MA, English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998;
Ethnic Studies Sequence (Intercampus Exchange), University of California, San Diego, 1998 – 2000;
PhD, English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004

Research Interests:
U.S. Latina/o literature

Selected Publications:
"I Can't Be Me Without My People: Julia Alvarez and the Postmodern Personal Narrative," Latino Studies 1:3.

"An Epistemology of Ignorance: Hierarchy, Exclusion, and the Failure of Multiculturalism in the Modern Library Top 100" in Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas, edited by Jana Evans-Braziel and Joseph Young (Mercer University Press, 2007).