Areas of Interest

Cross- cultural contact: how contact with and absorption of new cultures affects literature and the arts both stylistically and thematically, and what literature's role is in these contacts. How social movements are reflected in literature and how literature affects social movements.

Conferences

Between Flesh and Stone: Strategies of Resistance in "Il Bagno Turco" and "La Estrategia del
Caracol"; American Association of Italian Studies (March 13-16 2003)

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Italian and Arabic.

Courses Taught

Spanish Language, English Composition, Landmarks of Literature (world
literature) Authors taught include: Shakespeare, Bronte, Dickens, Austen, Wilde, Hardy, Moliere, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Hugo, Garcia-Marquez, Sepulveda, Rushdie, Khalifeh, Ben Jalloun, Murasaki Shikibu, Dos Passos, Baldwin, Hurston, Donne, Pope, Dickinson, Coleridge, Desnos, Breton, Baudelaire, Vallejo, and Borges.

Curriculum Vitae