Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• M.A., University of Texas at Austin
• B.A., University of North Texas

Interests

• U.S. Latina/o Literatures
• 20th-Century American Literatures
• Women & Gender Studies
• Public Sphere Theory

Courses Taught

• Q20: Basic Writing
• WRT 120: Effective Writing I
• LIT 165: Topics in Literature
• LIT 100: Theories of Popular Culture
• CLS 333: Latina Writing
• LIT 303: Multi-Ethnic Literature
• ENG 400: Reading Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in the Graphic Novel
• ENG 400: The Genre of Chica Lit
• ENG 400: Literature and the Problem of History
• ENG 400: Latin@s in Literature and Popular Culture

Selected Publications

"Cultural Citizenship and Agency in the Genre of Chica Lit and Sofia Quintero’s Feminist Intervention." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Forthcoming.

Review of Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century by Tace Hedrick. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. Forthcoming.

"Deconstructing 'Real' Love in the Classroom." Radical Teacher 100 (2014): 159-161.

Review of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38.1 (Spring 2013): 171-173. Co-authored with Cherise Pollard.

Review Essay, "The Marketization of Higher Education." College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 39.2 (Spring 2012): 121-132.

Review of Hooking Up: A Girl's All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality, by Amber Madison, and Girls and Sex Education Before the 1960s, by Susan Freeman. Feminist Teacher 20.2 (Winter 2010): 171-174.

"Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinadad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls Social Club." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 34.3 (Fall 2009): 133-153.

"Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at UT-Austin." Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture 8.1 (Summer 2008). Co-authored with Layne Parish Craig.