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AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Spanish for Agriculture
• Spanish for Occupational Safety and Health

BOOKS:

• Putting Spanish to Work: Spanish for Agriculture, Revised Edition. Kendall Hunt, 2017.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• Contributor to The World Comes to Tennessee: A Resource Book for Adult Education and ESOL Teachers of Advanced Level ESOL Students. U of Tennessee Center for Literacy Studies, 2004.
• Contributor to Tennessee Adult ESOL Curriculum Resource Book. Edited by Pat Sawyer, U of Tennessee Center for Literacy Studies, 2001.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Early Modern Spanish Literature
• History of Science
• Cognitive Literary Studies

ARTICLES:

• "Gender and Genre Fiction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 48, no. 1, 2019, pp. 206-223.
• "Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache." Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750, edited by Ryan Giles and Steven Wagschal, 2017, pp. 66-93. 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Second Language Acquisition
• Study Abroad 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
• Language Assessment
• Second Language Acquisition

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Latin American Culture
• 20th-Century Literature
• Film
• Modernity

ARTICLES:

• "Un acercamiento fenomenológico al universo cristiano de la novela Adán Buenosayres de Leopoldo Marechal." Hispanófila, vol. 182, enero 2018, pp. 111-126.
• "Resonancia maritainiana en la formación ideológica del justicialismo peronista." Procesos Históricos, no. 33, 2018, pp. 41-51.
• "Leopoldo Marechal: In State of Exile." Hispanófila, vol. 167, enero 2013, pp. 79-94.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Colonial Latin America
• Early Modern Hispanophone Theatre
• Literature and Religion

ARTICLES:

• "Jewish Debates on the Colonial Mexican Stage: The Case of Fernán González de Eslava." Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 26, issue 3, 2018, pp. 336-354.
• "González de Eslava and the Origins of Mexican Orientalism." Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, vol. 8, iss. 3, 2018, pp. 46-63.
• "Violent Conversions and Warrior-Bureaucrats: Colonial Mexico in the Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón." Hispanófila, vol. 180, junio 2017, pp. 41-57.
• "Eusebio Vela's Mexican Hagiographies: Self-fashioning in Eighteenth-century Theater." Hispania, vol. 99, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 589-599.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• "Theatre in Latin America." The Theatrical Journey: An Imaginative Process, 2nd ed., Kendall Hunt, 2018.
• Edition and Introduction for "Titu Cusi Yupanqui." Narradores indígenas y mestizos de la época colonial (siglos XVI'XVII): Zonas andina y mesoamericana, edited by Rocío Cortés and Margarita Zamora, Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2016.
• Co-Translator of Like Leaven in the Dough: Protestant Social Thought in Latin America, 1920-1950. By Carlos Mondragón, translated by Daniel Miller and Ben Post, Farleigh-Dickenson, 2010. 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• 20th- and 21st-Century Germanophone Literature
• Holocaust Studies
• Migration Studies

BOOKS:

• Das Verborgene sichtbar machen: Ethnische Minderheiten in der österreichischen Literatur der neunziger Jahre. Peter Lang, 2010.

ARTICLES:

• "An Unlikely Heroine: Fat, Unemployed, and Diseased: Dorris Dörrie's Film Die Friseuse (2010)." The German Quarterly, vol. 91, issue 2, Spring 2018, pp. 170-185.
• "Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich: Creating a Heimat of One's Own." Colloquia Germanica, vol. 49, no. 4, 2016, pp. 347-370.
• "Romancing Unsung Heroes: Storytelling in 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and The Wedding in Auschwitz by Erich Hackl." The Image of the Outsider III, edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, Colorado SU, 2013, pp. 185-189.
• "'But there is a veil hanging before it ...' Response to Edith Krause." Dialogue and UniversalismE, vol. 2, no. 2, 2011, pp. 48-54.
• "The Necessity of Remembering: Memory, History, and the Representation of the Romani Genocide in Austrian Contemporary Literature." Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 260-84. 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• 19th- through 21st-Century Peninsular Literature and Film
• Spanish Civil War
• Interdisciplinary studies (including film, cultural, and gender studies)
• Teaching Methodology
• Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning

ARTICLES:

• "'Venid a ver un hombre perseguido': La locura en la Égloga II de Garcilaso de la Vega y la tradición literaria." eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, vol. 42, pp. 185-196.
• "Sexualidad, materialismo y fetichismo en Su único hijo." Decimonónica, vol. 13, num. 1, Winter 2016.
• "La regeneración del 27: Poeta en Nueva York y Un chien andalou." RILCE: Revista de Filología Hispánica, vol. 31, no. 2, 2015, pp. 523-43.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• Translator of "El coleccionismo, el rescate de las cosas y lo humano." By Noël Valis, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 757/758, Julio/Agosto 2013, pp. 223-44. Reprinted in Letras de Hoje, vol. 48, num. 4, 2013, pp. 559-68. 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Heritage Language Education
• Cultural Identity Development 

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Traditional Chinese Poetry
• Literary and Textual Criticism
• Philology
• Literary and Cultural History

ARTICLES:

• "A Political Eulogy that Dazzles: Yang Jiong's (650-ca. 694) 'Fu on the Old Man Star.'" Asia Major, vol. 31, no. 1, 2018, pp. 47-89.
• "Vitality and Cohesiveness in the Poetry of Shangguan Wan'er (664-710)." Tang Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2016, pp. 40-72.
• "The Stele and the Drunkard: Two Poetic Allusions from Xiangyang." Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry, edited by Nick Williams and Ping Wang, U of Hong Kong P, 2015, pp. 165-188.
• "Kang Dawei yinxiang" (On David Knechtges). Newsletter for International China Studies, 9, June 2014, pp. 353-356.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• Contributor to Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature. Volume Two. Edited by David R. Knechtges and Taiping Chang, Brill, 2013, pp. include 1077-1086, 1233-1236, 1309-1312, 1348-1351.
• Translator of "Introduction to Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600," by Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, Harvard U Asia Center, 2001, pp. 1-32, 245-253. In Dangdai xifang hanxue yanjiu jicui Zhonggu shi juan (Treasury of Contemporary Western Sinology. Medieval Chinese History), edited by Leo K. Shin, Shanghai Publishing House of Classical Texts, 2012, pp. 117-151.
• Contributor to Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature. Volume One. Edited by David Knechtges and Taiping Chang, Brill, 2010, pp. include 223-226, 239-242, 272-275.
• Contributor to Ta Kung Pao.
• Contributor to Hong Kong Commercial Daily.