About me
I'm a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. My area is nineteenth-century Inter-American Literature. My languages of study are English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
I am also an Assistant Director and Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. I currently assist in the Department's pedagogy course for new instructors (Fall 2008); my other teaching interests include visual and digital rhetorics and composition theory. My previous courses for undergraduates have focused on somatic arguments and identity construction. You can learn more about them here
Dissertation
The Work of Death: Narrative, Necropolitics, and the Historical Romance in America
Courses Taught
As an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing I have had the opportunity to teach the standard introductory course as well as design my own courses that focus on writing and rhetoric. My goal in designing these courses is to improve the cultural literacy of my students while challenging them to reflect on the process of writing both at the university and in society at large.