
Position Title
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Position Title
Assistant Professor of Spanish
602 Sproul Hall
Bio
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University
Research and Teaching Interests
20th/21st-Century Mexican, Central American, and Latinx Literatures and Cultures; Border and Migration Studies; Environmental Humanities: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies; Critical Race Theory; Sound Studies; Visual Culture
Courses Taught
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SPA 168: Intro to Latinx Studies
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SPA 155: Mexican Novel
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SPA 167: Borders in the Hispanic World
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SPA 230: Ecologies of Borders and Migration
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SPA 279: Bodies of Extraction: Crip Ecologies and Otherness in Mexican Narratives
Committees and Service
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2022-2027 LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee of the MLA
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2022- Editorial Board Member of the Latin American Literary Review
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2022- Editorial Board Member of the Palgrave McMillan Transnational Cultures series
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2021-2022: Graduate Studies Fellowship Review Committee, UC Davis
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2021-2022: Committee on Foreign Languages, UC Davis
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2021-2022: Member of the Environmental Humanities Designated Emphasis Executive Committee, UC Davis
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2021-2022: Representative to the Assembly of the Academic Senate, UC Davis
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2021-2022: Graduate Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Department, UC Davis
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2020-2021: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Department, UC Davis
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2020-2021: Undergraduate Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Department, UC Davis
Selected Publications
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Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility. Eds. Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova. University of Minnesota Press. H-Environment. Book Review. Forthcoming 2022.
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"The Sounds of the Desert: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli." Latin American Literary Review. Spring 2021.
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“Wet-nurses and migrant nanas in Mexico’s imaginary landscape.” South of the Future: Speculative Biotechnologies and Care Markets in South Asia and Latin America. Eds. Anindita Banerjee and Debra Castillo. SUNY Press. 2020.
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“Las tierras arrasadas, de Emiliano Monge: la frontera en movimiento.” Mester. University of California at Los Angeles. 2019.
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“Companion Species in Border Crossings: ‘Mediodía de frontera’ by Claudia Hernández.” Ciberletras. Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura. Lehman College CUNY. 2019.
Current Projects
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"Borders and Species Extinction" (academic article)
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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails (book project)
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Invasive Species: The Ecologies of Migration in the Americas (book project)
Selected Grants and Awards
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2023: Davis Humanities Institute. Faculty Research Fellowship.
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2021-2022: UC Humanities Research Institute Junior Faculty Workshop Grant.
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2020- present: Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH) Faculty Scholars Award. University of California, Davis.
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2020-2021: First Generation Faculty Learning Communities. Center for Educational Effectiveness, UC Davis.
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2018-2019: Grant for Doctoral Research in Sustainability and the Humanities. Cornell University, Society for the Humanities.
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2019: President’s Travel Fund for the Humanities Award. Cornell University, Society for the Humanities.
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2018: Latina/o Studies Research Grant. Cornell University, Latina/o Studies Program.
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2018: Mellon Urbanism Fellowship. Cornell University, Society for the Humanities.