Ph.D. Yale University, 1992. Associate Professor of Spanish. Director of Graduate Studies

 Member of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900.

Trained in Modernismo and fin-de-siècle Spanish American literature, my theoretical interests have been greatly influenced by fin-de-siècle issues such as the role of the body and language in the process of subject formation. Among other topics, I have worked on writing as a self-constituting and self-disciplining practice. Some of my current areas of interest are Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism, and Psychoanalysis.  My latest book, Remembering Maternal Bodies. Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing, traces the sustained interest of Latina and Latin American women writers in the aporias of the maternal, while pointing to their representative passage from experimental to experiential modes of writing.

My publications include Remembering Maternal Bodies. Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Noir Anxiety (Co-authored with Kelly Oliver. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), Foucault , Latin America: Deployments and Appropriations of Discursive Analysis (Edited) (Routledge 2002), Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America (New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, January 2000), and and I have also published several articles in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanic Journal.