Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison (1985). Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Undergraduate Studies. Esopete Ystoriado {Toulouse,1488} Ed. (1990); A Procedural Manual for Entry Establishment in the Dictionary of Old Spanish Language (1987).

I did my graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, attracted there by its strong tradition of medieval studies. In addition to gaining experience as a teaching assistant, I was able to work as a project assistant on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language Project of the Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies. After receiving the Ph.D. in 1985, I spent a year working full-time on the Dictionary Project before coming to Vanderbilt in 1986. This was essential hands-on training in philology that has shaped the course of my research. My research interests revolve mainly around fifteenth-century topics, cancionero poetry and La Celestina in particular, although I am also interested in the medieval epic and the Libro de buen amor, another masterpiece of Spanish literature. My next research project will have to do with the changing concept of nobility in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing especially on the works of Diego de Valera.

Although my specialty is medieval Spanish literature, which I teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, I also regularly teach Spanish Civilization and Introduction to Spanish and Spanish-American Literature. Since Fall 1996 I have been the Director of Undergraduate Studies and academic adviser to all majors and minors.  I have recently directed Vanderbilt's study abroad program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for the fourth time and have carried out on-site evaluations of our programs at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca, the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, the

Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico, and the CIEE program at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Católica Argentina.