Expertise

Research Interests

  • Latinx Young Adult fiction, second language acquisition, language learning for professions.

Subject area:

  • Spanish
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Spanish

Director, Department of World Language Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Assistant Professor, Film Studies

Communities
Language Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan, Romance Languages and Linguistics, 1998
MA, University of Nevada, Reno, Spanish Language and Literatures, 1991
BA, University of Nevada, Reno, Spanish Language and Literatures, 1989
Keywords
south america caribbean islands latin america food practices fine arts interdisciplinary art forms modern art fiction poetry music criticism cultural activities folk or ethnic studies history and appreciation of music oral history latin american history non-western history twentieth century history popular culture modern language or literature latin american languages or literature oral literature caribbean language or literature musicology or music theory popular music ethnography latinos or latinas hispanics chicanos latin american studies linguistics or philology language acquisition and development applied linguistics assimilation sexuality and sex roles sociology of sex and gender minority education
Languages
Spanish
Honors

SBC Fellow, SBC (Ameritech), 2003

Associations
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Modern Language Association
Popular Culture Association