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Education

2003-present University of Texas at Austin

    Ph.D. (candidate), Comparative Literature
    Dissertation: “The Work of Death in the Americas: Narrative, Necropolitics and the Historical Romance in the Post-Revolutionary Era”
      Directors: Nicolas Shumway (Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature) and Martin Kevorkian (English)
      Committee: Diane Davis, Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Neville Hoad, Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski, Joshua Gunn
      Research Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French
    M.A. (2005), Comparative Literature
    Report: “Speaking in Two Voices: Sentimentalism, Science, and Social Space in Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Aves sin nido.”
      Directors: Nicolas Shumway and Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
      Second reader: Sonia Roncador

1998-2002 University of Colorado at Boulder

    B.A. (2002), English Literature summa cum laude and Spanish Language and Literature, History minor
    Thesis: “The Abject in Fantastic Horror: Postmodern Technology in Julio Cortázar’s “Las Babas del Diablo” and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu.”
      Director: Eric White
      Distinction honors from the College of Liberal Arts, Phi Beta Kappa (2001)

Academic Appointments

    2009-2010 University Continuing Fellow
    2008-2009 Assistant Director, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas
    2007-2008 Writing Mentor, Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Texas
    2006-2009 Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas
    2005-2006 Teaching Assistant II, Department of English, University of Texas

Fellowships, Awards, and Assistantships

    2009-2010 University Continuing Fellowship
    2008 John Slatin MEME Award, Computer Writing and Research Lab
    2008 Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Writing and Research Lab
    2008 Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin
    2007 Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin
    2006 Research Assistantship, Liberal Arts Digital Archive Services project, Supervisor: Frank Whigham
    2004-2005 Assistantship to the Secretariat of American Comparative Literature Association
    2004 Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin
    2003-2004 Research Internship Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

Publications

    2008 Teaching with Technology for the Computer Writing and Research Lab (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/main/research/teaching-technology)
    2007-2008 Contributing editor of Viz. (http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu)
    2005 Review: Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge by Fulford, et al. in E3W Review of Books
    2004, 2005 Co-Edited: Annual newsletter of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin (published electronically)

Conference Presentations

    “Memory: Archive in the Electronic Age,” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY, March 17-20, 2010.

    “Drowning in Dead Bodies: The Archive in the Electronic Age,” “Is Aristotle on Twitter?” Panel, South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive. Austin, TX, March 13-17, 2009

    “Working Through John Brown’s Body: Death, Responsibility and the Rhetoric of Social Change,” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 23-26, 2008

    “The Shadow of the Other: Exorcising the Native in post-revolutionary American Literature,” National Communications Association, Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2007

    “Eating your dead: Rituals of Community in Nineteenth Century Inter-American Literature,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007

    “Spanish in English: Challenging the boundaries of the traditional literature department,” roundtable participant, Academics in Action Symposium, American Literatures Group, Austin, TX, April 19-20, 2006

    “Romancing Necropolitics. Nationalism and Necrophilia in Matto de Turner’s Aves sin nido and Alencar’s Iracema,” Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, Austin, TX, October 7-8, 2005

    “The Threatened Limit: Postmodern Technology in Fantastic Horror,” Standing panel, Science and Literature, Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 4-7, 2004

    “Image of the Cannibal in Iberian Conquest Narrative,” Sequels Symposium, Ethnic and Third World Literatures Interest Group, Austin, TX, April 1-2, 2004

Courses Designed

For course documents, please see my course website

    RHE 309K (Topics in Writing): Rhetoric of the Body (2007-2008, 2009)
      This course is a study of the ways bodies have been argued on, with, and about in regards to understandings of identity, both communal and individual.

    RHE 309S (Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing): The Idea of the University (2007, 2009)

      The goal of the course is to study rhetoric as a civic art, a study that not only increases a student’s critical abilities in terms of public texts, but also one that prepares her/him to write to and for the public.

    Other Courses Taught:
    E398T: Supervised Teaching (2008)

      Co-taught with Professor Diane Davis

    RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing (2006-2007)

Academic Service:

    Department of Rhetoric and Writing: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2008-2009
    Department of Rhetoric and Writing: First Year Forum Committee 2007, 2008, 2009
    American Comparative Literature Association: Conference volunteer, 2007
    Ethnic and Third World Interest Group, English Department: Conference Planning Committee 2004, 2005, 2006
    Southern Comparative Literature Association: Conference volunteer, 2003