Teaching

TEACHING INTEREST
19th, 20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, Spanish Cinema, contemporary Spanish theater, 20th and 21st century Latin America culture, narrative and theater, Golden Age Spanish literature, literature written by women, interdisciplinary studies, women's and gender studies, Hispanic Digital Literature, and Foreign Languages Instruction.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Clark Atlanta University (from fall 2015 to spring 2024). Associate Professor of Spanish at the Department of English and Modern Languages.
Undergraduate:
        1. CFLS 101: Elementary Spanish I (5 sections)
        2. CFLS 102: Elementary Spanish II (32 sections)
        3. CFLS 201: Intermediate Spanish I (11 sections)
        4. CFLS 202: Intermediate Spanish II (9 sections)
        5. CFLS 307: Business Spanish (1 section)
        6. CFLS 325: Survey of Peninsular Literature I (2 sections)
        7. CFLS 326: Survey of Peninsular Literature II (1 section)
        8. CFLS 391: Advance Grammar and Composition (1 section)
        9. CFLS 440: Directed Readings (2 sections)
               Spanish Digital Poetry
               Hispanic Female Writers
        10. CFLS 461: Explicación de textos (2 sections)
        11. CFLS 480: Senior Seminar in Spanish (2 sections)
               The Generation of 98
               Afro-Latina Writers
        12. CENG 318: Colloquium (2 sections)
               Hispanic Cinema 
               U.S. Latino Representations in the Arts

Graduate:      

        13. CSPA 506: Spanish for Graduate Students (1 section)

        14. CSPA 509: Directed Readings I (1 section)
               Hispanic Female Writers

        15. CSPA 510: Directed Readings II (2 sections)
               The Generation of 98
               Afro-Latina Writers
        16. CSPA 760: Spanish Seminar I (1 section)
               Spanish Digital Literature
        17. CSPA 802: Dissertation Consultation (Since Fall 2018)​

Mercer University (from fall 2006 to summer 2015). Associate Professor of Spanish at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and Affiliated Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies.

  1. SPN 111: Beginning Spanish I (17 sections)
  2. SPN 112: Beginning Spanish II (15 sections)
  3. SPN 251: Intermediate Spanish I (7 sections)
  4. SPN 252: Intermediate Spanish II (4 sections)
  5. SPN 314: Culture and Civilization of Latin America (4 sections)
  6. SPN 320: Contemporary Spanish Literature (2 sections)
  7. SPN 353S1: Hispanic Culture and Civilization – Study Abroad in Costa Rica, Summer 2008 (1 section)
  8. SPN 353S2: Almodóvar and Amenábar: A Postmodern View of the Spanish Culture – Study Abroad in Seville, Summer 2012 (2 sections) Blog: ¡Esto no es Hollywood! Directores de cine en España.
  9. SPN 385: Special Topics: Introduction to Hispanic Film (3 sections)
  10. SPN 480: Internship Abroad (Hospital Rivadavia in Buenos Aires, Argentina) (1 section)
  11. SPN 485: Assistantship for Spanish 111 – 112 (1 section)
  12. SPN 490A: US Latino Literature (1 section)
  13. SPN 490B: Honor class: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Literature (1 section)
  14. SPN 490C: 21st Century Hispanic Digital Literature: Ink and Technology (1 section) 
  15. SPN 490D: Honor class: Belén Gache, Her Digital Work (1 section)
  16. WGS 180: Gendered Lives (5 sections)
  17. WLT 101: World Literature in Translation: Reading the World through Female Eyes. (1 section - Online class) Blog.
  18. PLS 385: Service Learning Practicum (2 sections)


The University of Arizona (from fall 2001 to spring 2006). Graduate Associate in Teaching at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

  1. Spanish 101: First semester Spanish Language (8 sections)
  2. Spanish 251: Intermediate Spanish Language: “Reading to Write” (2 sections)
  3. Spanish 325: Intermediate Grammar and Writing. (1 section)
  4. Spanish 330: Conversation (2 sections)
  5. Spanish 350: Introduction to Reading of Literary Genres (3 sections)
  6. Spanish 442: Contemporary Latin American Theater (1 section)

 

Montclair State University (1999-2001) Graduate Assistant at the Department of Spanish and Italian. Tutoring in all levels of Spanish from 101 to 104.

Centro de Enseñanza de Artes Audiovisuales Luis Buñuel (CEAA) (1995-96) Caracas, Venezuela. Cofounder, academic director, and instructor.

  1. Language and Communication. (2 sections)


Universidad Central de Venezuela (1990) Teacher Assistant at the workshop of Oral and Written Communication, under the direction of the acclaimed Venezuelan playwriter Isaac Chocrón.

 

ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL

I am proficient in the following computer programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Reader, PageMaker, WebCT, D2L (Desire to Learn), the program that substituted WebCT, and Blackboard. This knowledge allows me to design web pages and instructional material. The activities I have designed using QUIA, an educational resource for instructors, are:

A variety of Spanish grammar activities: