EDUCATION
University of Colorado Boulder
Ph.D. in Spanish (2015)
Dissertation: “The Fabric of the Baroque: Wildness and Ideology in the Spanish Comedia”
Director: Dr. Julio Baena
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
M.A. in Spanish (2011)
Thesis: “Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea”
Director: Dr. Ted E. McVay, Jr.
Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
B.A. in Spanish, B.A. in Religion (2008)
University of Colorado Boulder
Ph.D. in Spanish (2015)
Dissertation: “The Fabric of the Baroque: Wildness and Ideology in the Spanish Comedia”
Director: Dr. Julio Baena
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
M.A. in Spanish (2011)
Thesis: “Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea”
Director: Dr. Ted E. McVay, Jr.
Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
B.A. in Spanish, B.A. in Religion (2008)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“On Tyranny and Succession: Rethinking Monarchical Legitimacy in Calderón’s En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira (1659),MLN, vol. 133, no. 2, 2018, pp. 257-276.
“Disruptive Marginality: The Representation of Wildness in Lope de Vega’s Baroque Dramatic Art.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4, 2018. (forthcoming)
Annotated Editions
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira, Sueños hay que verdad son, edited by John Slater and Harrison Meadows, European Masterpieces, 2016. Cervantes & Co. 78.
Book Reviews
Egginton, William. The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World. Reviewed in eHumanista vol. 34, 2016, pp. 576-580.
Olid Guerrero, Eduardo. Del teatro a la novela: el ritual del disfraz en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes. Reviewed in Hispania, vol. 100, no. 4, 2017, pp. 692-694.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“On Tyranny and Succession: Rethinking Monarchical Legitimacy in Calderón’s En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira (1659),MLN, vol. 133, no. 2, 2018, pp. 257-276.
“Disruptive Marginality: The Representation of Wildness in Lope de Vega’s Baroque Dramatic Art.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4, 2018. (forthcoming)
Annotated Editions
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira, Sueños hay que verdad son, edited by John Slater and Harrison Meadows, European Masterpieces, 2016. Cervantes & Co. 78.
Book Reviews
Egginton, William. The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World. Reviewed in eHumanista vol. 34, 2016, pp. 576-580.
Olid Guerrero, Eduardo. Del teatro a la novela: el ritual del disfraz en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes. Reviewed in Hispania, vol. 100, no. 4, 2017, pp. 692-694.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS & CONFERENCES
“Social Transgression, Punishment, and the Problem of Ideology in Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera (The Wild Thing of La Vera) (1613)”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference (April 2018)
El Paso, TX
“Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia”
Modern Language Association Convention (January 2018)
New York, NY
“Feral Children Make Great Princes: Folklore and Social Discourse in Lope de Vega's El hijo de los leones (The Child of Lions) (1620)”
The American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference (November 2017)
Atlanta, GA
“The Polemics of Tyrannicide in Lope de Vega’sFuenteovejuna”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2017)
University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington NC
“Towards a Definition of Exemplarity in María de Zayas”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 2017)
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
“Staging Gender Non-comformity and Transphobia in Hispanic Classical Theater”
American Society for Theatre Research (November 2016)
Minneapolis, MN
"Is That Kinda Like Shakespeare?: The Relevance of Hispanic Classical Theater in 2016"
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2016)
El Paso, TX
“The Echo of Callisto’s Lament: Gendering the Wild Figure of the Spanish Comedia”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Spanish Golden Age Conference (March 2016)
El Paso, TX
“The Theatrical Method: Empiricism and the Dramatic Laboratory in Calderón’s En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 69th Annual Convention (October 2015)
Santa Fe, NM
“Savage Misdirection: Cultural Transgression and the Creation of the Wild Man in Three Comedias by Lope de Vega”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Spanish Golden Age Conference (March 2015)
El Paso, TX
“Charitable Squire or Pícaro?: Ironic Discourse in Vicente de Espinel’s La vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón”
“Heights of Humor” Graduate Student Conference (April 2014)
University of Colorado Boulder
“Using Facebook as a Teaching Tool in the SL Classroom” (with Laura Cesarco Eglin)
51st Annual Colorado Congress for Foreign Language Teaching (February 2013)
Loveland, CO
“Citations: The Framework of the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Sermon as seen in Manuel de Guerra y Rivera’s ‘Sagrados hyerogliphicos, enigmas misteriosas, cifras soberanas’”
“Framing Narratives” Graduate Student Conference (April 2012)
University of Colorado Boulder
“Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2011)
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
“Social Transgression, Punishment, and the Problem of Ideology in Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera (The Wild Thing of La Vera) (1613)”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference (April 2018)
El Paso, TX
“Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia”
Modern Language Association Convention (January 2018)
New York, NY
“Feral Children Make Great Princes: Folklore and Social Discourse in Lope de Vega's El hijo de los leones (The Child of Lions) (1620)”
The American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference (November 2017)
Atlanta, GA
“The Polemics of Tyrannicide in Lope de Vega’sFuenteovejuna”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2017)
University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington NC
“Towards a Definition of Exemplarity in María de Zayas”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 2017)
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
“Staging Gender Non-comformity and Transphobia in Hispanic Classical Theater”
American Society for Theatre Research (November 2016)
Minneapolis, MN
"Is That Kinda Like Shakespeare?: The Relevance of Hispanic Classical Theater in 2016"
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2016)
El Paso, TX
“The Echo of Callisto’s Lament: Gendering the Wild Figure of the Spanish Comedia”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Spanish Golden Age Conference (March 2016)
El Paso, TX
“The Theatrical Method: Empiricism and the Dramatic Laboratory in Calderón’s En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 69th Annual Convention (October 2015)
Santa Fe, NM
“Savage Misdirection: Cultural Transgression and the Creation of the Wild Man in Three Comedias by Lope de Vega”
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Spanish Golden Age Conference (March 2015)
El Paso, TX
“Charitable Squire or Pícaro?: Ironic Discourse in Vicente de Espinel’s La vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón”
“Heights of Humor” Graduate Student Conference (April 2014)
University of Colorado Boulder
“Using Facebook as a Teaching Tool in the SL Classroom” (with Laura Cesarco Eglin)
51st Annual Colorado Congress for Foreign Language Teaching (February 2013)
Loveland, CO
“Citations: The Framework of the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Sermon as seen in Manuel de Guerra y Rivera’s ‘Sagrados hyerogliphicos, enigmas misteriosas, cifras soberanas’”
“Framing Narratives” Graduate Student Conference (April 2012)
University of Colorado Boulder
“Negative Water Imagery in the Rimas of Juan de Moncayo y Gurrea”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 2011)
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2016-Present)
Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
SPAN 533/621, "Studies in Golden Age Spanish Literature"
SPAN 489, “Contemporary Spanish Culture”
SPAN 480, “Social Forces in Spanish Literary Expression”
SPAN 334, “Survey of Hispanic Literatures: Beginnings to 1700”
SPAN 305: “Conversation and Aural Comprehension", 2 courses
Auburn University (2015-2016)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
FLSP 4420, “Wild Things of the Baroque: Staging Monstrosity in Early Modern Iberian Theater”
FLSP 3030, “Spanish Conversation”, 4 courses
FLSP 7130, “Graduate Survey: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature”
University of Colorado Boulder (2011-2015)
Graduate Part-Time Instructor
Courses Taught:
SPAN 3000, “Advanced Spanish Language Skills”, 4 courses
SPAN 1020, “Beginning Spanish II (Second Semester)”, 2 course
SPAN 1010, “Beginning Spanish I (First Semester)”, 3 courses
Auburn University (2009-2011)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Courses Taught:
Spanish 1020, “Elementary Spanish II”, 4 courses
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2016-Present)
Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
SPAN 533/621, "Studies in Golden Age Spanish Literature"
SPAN 489, “Contemporary Spanish Culture”
SPAN 480, “Social Forces in Spanish Literary Expression”
SPAN 334, “Survey of Hispanic Literatures: Beginnings to 1700”
SPAN 305: “Conversation and Aural Comprehension", 2 courses
Auburn University (2015-2016)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
FLSP 4420, “Wild Things of the Baroque: Staging Monstrosity in Early Modern Iberian Theater”
FLSP 3030, “Spanish Conversation”, 4 courses
FLSP 7130, “Graduate Survey: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature”
University of Colorado Boulder (2011-2015)
Graduate Part-Time Instructor
Courses Taught:
SPAN 3000, “Advanced Spanish Language Skills”, 4 courses
SPAN 1020, “Beginning Spanish II (Second Semester)”, 2 course
SPAN 1010, “Beginning Spanish I (First Semester)”, 3 courses
Auburn University (2009-2011)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Courses Taught:
Spanish 1020, “Elementary Spanish II”, 4 courses
HONORS & AWARDS
Everett Hesse Graduate Student Travel Grant (2016) for best paper submitted to annual conference by a graduate student
Association of Hispanic Classical Theater
Master’s Thesis Award (2012-13), to recognize the scholarship of master’s students whose theses make an unusually significant contribution to their respective discipline. One of two that went on to the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ 2012-13 Master’s Thesis Awards
Auburn University Graduate School, Auburn, AL
Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Award Nomination (2014-2015)
University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate School
Everett Hesse Graduate Student Travel Grant (2016) for best paper submitted to annual conference by a graduate student
Association of Hispanic Classical Theater
Master’s Thesis Award (2012-13), to recognize the scholarship of master’s students whose theses make an unusually significant contribution to their respective discipline. One of two that went on to the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ 2012-13 Master’s Thesis Awards
Auburn University Graduate School, Auburn, AL
Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Award Nomination (2014-2015)
University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate School
GRANTS
Faculty Fellowship Program (2017-2018), to complete monograph manuscript titled, Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia (1588-1693)
University of Tennessee Humanities Center
Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant (Summer 2013), to carry out research on a forthcoming book edition
Center for the Humanities and Arts, University of Colorado Boulder
Student Travel Grant (Summer 2013), to carry out dissertation research and work on a forthcoming book edition
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado Boulder
SERVICE (PROFESSIONAL)
Faculty Senator (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee Faculty Senate
Member, Undergraduate Council (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences
Member, Steering Committee (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee Humanities Center
Member, Advisory Board (2016-Present)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2016-Present)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Undergraduate Advanced-Level Spanish Coordinator’s Assistant (2014-2015)
University of Colorado Boulder
Editing Assistant for Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Culture. Eds. Mary Long, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Leila Gómez, and Asunción Horno-Delgado. (2014)
Sense Publishers, University of Colorado Boulder
Planning Committee Co-chair (2013-2014)
University of Colorado “Heights of Humor” 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Assistantship for Speaker Series on “Cultural Translation in Medieval and Early Modern Studies” (2012-2014)
Center for the Humanities and Arts, University of Colorado Boulder
Planning Committee Member (2011-2012)
University of Colorado “Framing Narratives” 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
President (2010-2011)
Sigma Delta Pi (The National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society), Theta Delta Chapter, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
ESL Teacher (2009-2010)
Closing the Gap, Auburn, AL
Faculty Senator (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee Faculty Senate
Member, Undergraduate Council (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences
Member, Steering Committee (2018-Present)
University of Tennessee Humanities Center
Member, Advisory Board (2016-Present)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2016-Present)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Undergraduate Advanced-Level Spanish Coordinator’s Assistant (2014-2015)
University of Colorado Boulder
Editing Assistant for Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Culture. Eds. Mary Long, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Leila Gómez, and Asunción Horno-Delgado. (2014)
Sense Publishers, University of Colorado Boulder
Planning Committee Co-chair (2013-2014)
University of Colorado “Heights of Humor” 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Assistantship for Speaker Series on “Cultural Translation in Medieval and Early Modern Studies” (2012-2014)
Center for the Humanities and Arts, University of Colorado Boulder
Planning Committee Member (2011-2012)
University of Colorado “Framing Narratives” 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
President (2010-2011)
Sigma Delta Pi (The National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society), Theta Delta Chapter, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
ESL Teacher (2009-2010)
Closing the Gap, Auburn, AL
SERVICE (COMMUNITY)
Board of Representatives Member (2013-2015)
Volunteers in Action, Denver, CO
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