I am an Associate Professor of English. I have over 20 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I teach courses in composition, American literature, Chicana/o Literature, and Gender and Women's Studies. My areas of research are gender, culture, and identity rhetorical politics, and the U.S./Mexico borderlands. 

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (to date)

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

“Pragmatic Assimilation, or On Mitigative Multiplicity: Colorism, Gatekeepers, and the Politics of Intracultural Ethnic Harassment,” College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group. Vol. 32, No. 1067-7429, Nov., 2024. 24-34.

“The Spectacle of Historical Trauma of Black Bodies in America: Subjectivity, Abjection, and Commodification of The White/Black Gaze.” Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature, no. 4, Nov. 2023, doi:10.34739/fci.2023.04.07.

“Not for the Male Gaze: (Un)Gendering the Heroine in Cinematic Space.” The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 1.1 (2014): n. pag. Web. (2014). 

“Negotiating the Intersections of Disability, Masculinity, Disability, and Normative Gender Roles in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: The Tragedy of the Self-Made Man.” The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture (2021). 

“Unmasking Horror in the Perceived Perfection of Idyllic Places: America as a Sunken Place.” The Places and Spaces of Horror, edited by Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters, Vernon P., pp. 239-250, (2020). 

Book reviews “Road to Hell.” Rev. of Gangster Tour of Texas. T. Lindsay Baker. Books of the Southwest Journal of Critical Articles and Reviews of Southwestern Americana. November (2014). 

“Sociopolitical and Cultural Spaces: Analyzing and Validating the Experiential U.S./Mexico Border.” Rev. of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. Mary Pat Brady. 2002 Books of the Southwest: A Journal of Critical Articles and Reviews of Southwestern Americana. August (2015).

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin

Sul Ross State University

Washington State University