University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Professor of Spanish, August 2021–present

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Associate Professor of Spanish, August 2014–July 2021

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. Associate Professor of Spanish, August 2011–May 2014

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. Assistant Professor of Spanish, August 2005–May 2011

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Profesora de Asignatura, August 2002–May 2005

Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.  Assistant Professor of Spanish, August 2001–May 2002

     Dissertation: “After Ours:  Six Mexican Women Writers on Borrowed Time”

     Dissertation Committee: Gustavo Pellón (Director), Donald L. Shaw, Ruth Hill, Alison Booth

     Comprehensive exams: Spanish-American Colonial; Spanish-American Romanticism, Realism, Modernism; Spanish-American Contemporary; Contemporary Peninsular literatures

     Master of Arts Thesis: “Sterile Solitudes:  The Frustrated Creative Vision in Four Short Stories by Inés Arredondo and Clarice Lispector”

     Thesis Director: Earl Fitz

IFAL (Instituto Francés de América Latina), Mexico City, Mexico, 2008

Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003

Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002-2003

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, 1994-1995

Virtual Exchange Recognition for Incorporating Latin American Studies Content into the Classroom, 2024, UF

Co-Recipient with Meg Weeks of the Quest Pilot Team-Teaching Grant for “Love’s Labor’s Lost? The History and Politics of Care and Caregiving,” UF, 2024.

Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professorship, 2024-2025, UF

Funding for the publication of the Spanish-language translation of Dude Lit from the Center for Latin American Studies, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, 2024, UF

Professor of the Year from the UF Graduate Students in Literature, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023

Co-Recipient with Katerie Gladdys of the Quest Pilot Team-Teaching Grant for “What’s Your Energy Story? Confronting Oil by Seeing Plants,” UF, 2021-2022.

Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities 2019 for Dude Lit from the Mexico section of the Latin American Section, 2020

Publication subvention from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere, 2019

Keynote speaker, Florida Undergraduate Research Leadership Summit, spring 2019

Publication subvention from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere, 2018

Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida, summer 2018

University of Florida Term Professorship, for distinguished record of research and scholarship 2016-2019

Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, University of Florida, summer 2015

Fulbright García-Robles Grantee. Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico. Spring 2015.

“Thumbs Up” Award, A&S Student Council, University of Wyoming, 2010

Two “Top Prof” Mortar Board Awards, University of Wyoming, 2009

Nominated and accepted as a “UC [University of California] Mexicanista,” UCMEXUS, 2009

Three “Thumbs Up” Awards, A&S Student Council, University of Wyoming, 2009

Top Ten Teacher selected by graduating class of 2009, University of Wyoming, 2009

“Top Prof” Mortar Board Award, University of Wyoming, 2006

Travel Grant and Basic Research Grant from University of Wyoming, Summer 2006

Grant for Summer Research from Wichita State University, 2002 (Returned to accept job at UIA)

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia, 2000-2001

Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia Academic Year Fellowship for Dissertation Research, August-May 2000-2001

Semi-Finalist, Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching, Spring 2000

Mortar Board (Senior Honor Organization), University of Kansas, 1994

Phi Beta Kappa, 1994

Phi Kappa Phi (Senior Honor Society), 1994

Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society), 1994

Literatura infantil y juvenil: Entrevistas. New York: Peter Lang, 2020.

Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019.**Issued in paperback, September 2025. Translated by Carl Good: Macholiteratura: Hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012. Bonilla Artigas, 2025.

La generación XXX: Entrevistas con veinte escritores mexicanos nacidos en los 70. De Abenshushan a Xoconostle. México: Eón, 2013.

Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska: Boob Lit. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Entrevistas con quince autoras mexicanas.  Madrid: Iberoamericana/ Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2003.   

Interview with Amaury Colmenares. “Entrevista a Amaury Colmenares.” A Contracorriente: Uma revista de estudios latino-americanos, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2026), pp. 215-231.

“El veget-alfabetismo en Supernaturalia de Norma Muñoz Ledo, Restauración de Ave Barrera y Desierto sonoro de Valeria Luiselli.” Balajú: Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana. No. 22 (2025), pp. 66-96.

with Jorge Quintana Navarrete. Introducción. “Los estudios críticos de las plantas: Aproximaciones desde las culturas de México y Centroamérica.” Balajú: Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana. No. 22 (2025), pp. 4-16.

Interview with Jazmina Barrera. Hispamérica, Vol. 51, No. 153 (2022), pp. 77-83.

Interview with Brigitte Broch. “Las plantas en el cine mexicano: ¿desastre ecológico o remedio visual? Conversación con la diseñadora de arte Brigitte Broch sobre Solo con tu pareja (1991), Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999) y Amores perros (2000).” Balajú: Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana. No. 17 (2022), pp. 99-110.

Interview with Ave Barrera. “Ave Barrera al precipicio de la introducción al mundo anglófono.” A Contracorriente. Vol. 19, No. 3 (2022), pp. 327-344.

“Literary Fiction Under Coloniality and the Relief of Meditation in Guadalupe Nettel’s Desupés del invierno, Carla Faesler’s Formol and Laía Jufresa’s ‘La pierna era nuestro altar.’” Special Issue edited by Roberto Sirvent and Amy Reed-Sandoval, Disability and the Global South, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2019), pp. 1677-1694.

“Contemplation as Resistance to Ageism, and Its Historical Context: Mexican Writers Carmen Boullosa, Guadalupe Nettel, and María Rivera.” **Special number of Life Writing, edited by Margaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2019), pp. 11-24.

**Republished as a book: Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. Routledge, 2021.

“Introversión, grasa, bullying y lo cool en la literatura mexicana para niños (y jóvenes): Aguilera, Brozon, Chacek, Dehesa, Hinojosa, Montiel Figueiras y Villoro.” Revista de Literatura Contemporánea Mexicana, Vol. 67, No. 22 (2016), pp. 9-24.

Interview with Guillermo Fadanelli. “Entrevista a Guillermo Fadanelli.” A Contracorriente,Vol. 14, No. 1 (2016), pp. 306-330.

Interview with Luis Felipe Lomelí. “El bárbaro doctorado del Norte: Entrevista con Luis Felipe Lomelí.” Confluencia, Vol.32, No. 1 (2016), pp. 208-223.

“Ageism, the Environment, and the Specter: The Broad Predicament in Carlos Fuentes’s Aura and Carmen Boullosa’s Antes.” Chasqui, Vol.44, No. 2 (2015), pp. 164-174.

“Starring Pirates: Metaphors for Understanding Recent Popular Mexican Film.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2013), pp. 196-207.

“Estado de excepción y feminicidio: El Traspatio/ Backyard (2009) de Carlos Carrera y Sabina Berman,” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 8 (2010), pp. 27-42.

“Sports, Horror, and Justice: 21^st-Century Fiction by García Galiano, Murguía, Roncagliolo, Servín,” Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura Vol. 14 (2010), pp. 66-78.

“Pita Amor, Sabina Berman, and Antonio Serrano Camp in DF,”  HIOL Hispanic Issues Online, Vol.3 (2008), pp. 136-162.

“Cinesperanza: Entre pantalla y página en Los niños de paja de Bernardo Esquinca,” Explicación de Textos Literarios, Vol. 36, No. 1-2 (2008), pp. 120-137.

“Un ¡Ojo! tecnológico:  La mirada con y sin las máquinas en la novela y el cine mexicanos.” Revista Iberoamericana Vol. 63, No. 221 (2007), pp. 813-826.

“Hablando histéricamente:  La ciencia de la locura en Feliz Nuevo Siglo Doktor Freud de Sabina Berman y Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza,” Literatura Mexicana, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2006), pp. 147-168.

“Being Jean Franco: Mastering Reading and Plotting Women.”  Letras Femeninas, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2006), pp. 329-350.

“De Rosario Castellanos al Hombre Ilustre, o, Entre dicho y hecho, hay un problemático pecho,” Letras Femeninas.  First-Place Essay Contest Winner, Feministas Unidas. Vol. 31, No. 2 (2005), pp. 27-46.

“El consumo textual y La cresta de Ilión de Cristina Rivera Garza,”  Revista de Filología, Lingüística y Literatura de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2005), pp. 35‑50.

Interview with Mario Bellatin. Confluencia, Vol. 20. No. 1 (2004), pp. 197-204.

“Provincia in Recent Mexican Cinema, 1989-2004.”  Discourse, Vol. 26, No. 1-2 (2004), pp. 26‑45.

“Three Short Stories, Two Films, and One Crazy Commitment:  José Emilio Pacheco.” La Torre, Vol. 9, No. 33 (2004), pp. 381-389.  

“Post-NAFTA Mexican Cinema 1998-2002.”  Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Vol. 23 (2004), pp. 95-111.

“The Sor Juana Archetype in Recent Works by Mexican Women Writers.” Hispanófila, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2004), pp. 89-103.  

Interview with Héctor Aguilar Camín. Hispamérica, Vol. 32, No. 95 (2003), pp. 67-74.

“La musa masculina en las novelas de Silvia Molina.” AlterTexto, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2003), pp. 57‑72.

“Novel Globalization:  Mario Bellatín’s El jardín de la señora Murakami.” Hispanic Journal, Vol.23, No. 1 (2002), pp. 21-34.

“La historia como conducto a la espiritualidad en la escritura mexicana femenina.” Hispanorama, Vol. 96 (2002), pp. 53-55.

“Making History:  Carlos Salinas vs. Mexican Women Writers.” Discourse, Vol 23, No. 2 (2001), pp. 82-101.

Interview with Carmen Boullosa.  Hispamérica, Vol. 90 (2001), pp. 49-60.

Interview with Sabina Berman.  Latin American Theatre Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2000), pp. 133‑139.

“Árbol Ramón, the Axolotl/Ajolote, and LEGOs: Mexico City’s El Papalote Children’s Museum” for Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene, edited by Lucas Mertehikian and Nicolás Campisi. U of Florida P, 2026. pp. 43-64.

“Carmen Boullosa, Driver’s License, and the Energy Gratitude Test” in Carmen Boullosa: In Between Brooklyn and Coyoacán. Edited by María R. Matz and María del Mar López Cabrales. Vernon P, 2024, pp. 19-37.

“The Art of the Hack: Poets Carla Faesler and Mónica Nepote, and Booktuber Fátima Orozco,” in The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Spanish American Women Artists and Writers, edited by Jane E. Lavery and Sarah Bowskill, Boydell & Brewer, 2023, pp. 165-183.

“The Slowed-Down Showdown: Energopower in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Álvaro Enrigue’s Ahora me rindo y eso es todo (2018).” In The Literary Western in the Global Imagination edited by Christopher Conway, Marek Paryz, and David Rio. Brill, 2022, pp. 90-109.

“Weight, Writing and Privilege: Carmen Boullosa, Elena Poniatowska, and Rosario Castellanos.” Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Elizabeth C. Martínez. Modern Language Association of America, 2021, pp. 254-62.**  **Teaching Literature Book Award 2023, Honorable Mention, Idaho State University.

“La petrocultura y Frida Kahlo: De la biopolítica al energopoder, in Las dos Fridas y Demerol sin fecha de caducidad de Mario Bellatin,” in Mario Bellatin y las formas de la escritura,edited by Héctor Jaimes. Editorial A Contracorriente, distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, 2020. pp. 257-282.

“¿Carácter o personalidad? El pensamiento transicional de Asunción Izquierdo Albiñana.” In Luz rebelde: Mujeres y producción cultural en el México posrevolucionario. Coord. Elissa Rashkin and Esther Hernández Palacios. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 2020. pp. 157-196.

“On Pirates and Tourists: Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del Narco.” In Online Activism in Latin America. Ed. Hilda Chacón. Routledge, 2017. pp. 113-127.

“Classism. Gente Decente and Civil Rights: From Suffrage to Divorce and Privileges in Between.” In Modern Mexican Culture. Ed Stuart Day. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2017. pp. 184-202.

“Contemporary Mexican Sor Juanas: Artistic, Popular, and Scholarly.” In The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Eds. Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.pp. 107-117.

“La liturgia en Emilio, los chistes y la muerte de Fabio Morábito.” In Los oficios de la nómada: Fabio Morábito ante la crítica. Eds. Sarah Pollack and Tamara R. Williams. México: UNAM, 2015. pp. 269-294.

“The Disability Twist in Stranger Novels by Mario Bellatin and Carmen Boullosa.” In Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies. Eds. Susan Antebi and Beth Jörgensen. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2016. pp. 229-243.

“The Rise of Reading Campaigns in Post-Nafta Mexico.” In The Middle Class in Emerging Societies: Consumers, Lifestyles, and Markets. Eds. Leslie L. Marsh and Hongmei Li. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2016. pp. 33-57.

“Contra lo prosaico: la novela corta como ideología en Antes de Carmen Boullosa.” In En breve: la novela corta en México.Coordinado por Anadeli Bencomo y Cecilia Eudave. Guadalajara: Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2014. pp. 239-254.

“Children’s Literature on the Colonia: la Nao de China, the Inquisition, Sor Juana.” In Colonial Returns in Contemporary Mexico. Eds. Oswaldo Estrada and Anna Nogar. Arizona UP, 2014. pp. 211-229.

“Guadalupe Loaeza’s Blonded Ambition: Lip-Synching, Plagiarism, and Power Poses.” In Mexican Public Intellectuals. Eds. Debra A. Castillo and Stuart A. Day. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. pp. 95-116.

“Vivian Abenshushan y Fabio Morábito: Ensayar, esfumar” In Ensayando el ensayo: Artilugios del género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Eds. Mayra Fortes and Ana Sabau. México: Eón P, 2012. pp. 25-47.

“La novela corta ensayada: Biografía ilustrada de Mishima y La cresta de Ilión.” In Una selva tan infinita. La novela corta en México (1872-2011), Vol. II, Ed. Gustavo Jiménez Aguirre, México: Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, 2011. pp. 277-291.

“Six Authors on the Conservative Side of the Boom Femenino, 1985-2003: Boullosa, Esquivel, Loaeza, Mastretta, Nissán, Sefchovich.” In The Boom femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing, Eds. Nuala Finnegan and Jane Lavery, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. pp. 48-72.

“Lo anterior o el tiempo literario de La muerte me da.” In Cristina Rivera Garza: Ningún crítico cuenta esto…, Ed. Oswaldo Estrada, Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 2010. pp. 313-338.

“Mexican’ Novels on the Lesser United States: Works by Andrés Acosta, Juvenal Acosta, Boullosa, Puga, Servín, and Xoconostle.”  In Reading the US from Mexico, Eds. Mary Long and Linda Egan, Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. pp. 198-218.

“La identidad menos mexicana en la novela sin género,”  In Negociando identidades, traspasando fronteras: tendencias en la literatura y el cine mexicano en torno del milenio,  Eds. Susanne Igler and Thomas Stauder,  Madrid: Iberoamericana and Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2008. pp. 111-121.

“Sor Juana, an Official Habit.”  In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Eds. Emilie Bergmann and Stacey Schlau, New York: MLA, 2007. pp. 247-255.

“Consuming Cosmopolitanism in Mexico City Advertising.”  In Language and Culture Out of Bounds:  Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom, Eds. Vicki Galloway and Bettina Cothran,  Mason, OH: Thomson, 2006. pp. 171-189.

“Paganismo o la literatura como fetiche en Y si yo fuera Susana San Juan…” In  De márgenes y adiciones: novelistas latinoamericanas de los 90. Eds. Jorge Chen Sham and Isela Chiu. San José, Costa Rica:  Perro Azul, 2004. pp. 227-313.

Review of Oswaldo Estrada’s (editor) Fronteras de violencia en México y Estados Unidos. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2024), pp. 305-307.

Review of Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price’s (editors) The Lost Cinema of Mexico. Hispanic Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2023), pp. 142-144.

Review of Irmgard Emmelhainz’s Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance. Mistral: Journal of Latin American Women’s Intellectual & Cultural History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2022): 104-105.

Gloss of my book of interviews on Mexican children’s literature. “Las voces de la LIJ mexicana.” Lazarillo: Revista de la Asociación de Amigos del Libro infantil y juvenil. No. 46 (2022), pp.30-33.

Review of Pineda Franco, Adela. The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and film in the Twentieth Century. Revista Iberoamericana. Vol. 86, No. 272 (2020): pp. 995-1006.

Review of Ignacio Sánchez Prado’s (editor) Mexican Literature in Theory. Hispanófila 187 (2019): 178-180.

Review of Ignacio Sánchez Prado’s Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature. Revista Iberoamericana. 85.269 (2019): 1347-1350.

Review of Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet’s (editors) Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 51.1 (2017): 561-563.

Review of Ignacio Sánchez Prado’s Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012. Romance Notes. 56.1 (2016): 157-160.

“From Pancho’s Hankie to Pablo’s Hippo: An Interdisciplinary Tour.” Review of Geoffrey Kantaris and Rory O’Bryen’s (editors.) Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect. Confluencia. 30.1 (2014): 206-208.

Review of José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra’s Historias que regresan: Topología y renarración en la segunda mitad del siglo XX mexicano. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 48.1 (2014): 248-250.

Review of Brian Price’s Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 47.3 (2013): 25-27.

Review of Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis by Rubén Gallo. Modernist Cultures. 7.1 (2012): 132-135.

Review of Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico by Fernando Fabio Sánchez. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 45.3 (2011): 730-731.

“Literatura mexicana: Un menú para todos los gustos,” Nexos. 35.411 (2012): 63-65.

“Desde el Gran México y los Estados Unidos Menores,” Nexos. 29.355 (2007): 55-58.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel edited by Efraín Kristal. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 40.2 (2006): 431.

“El cruce de rieles,” Review of El tren pasa primero by Elena Poniatowska, Nexos. 28.338 (2006): 82-84.

“Conciencia histórica infernal.”  Review of Abril rojo by Santiago Roncagliolo, Nexos. 28.344 (2006): 94-95.

“La que mató el parabrisas distraído.”  Salto de mantarraya (y otras dos) de Carmen Boullosa. Nexos. 27.331 (2005):  83-86.

“Jugar a la mosca,” Review of El turno del escriba by Graciela Montes and Ema Wolf. Nexos. 27.333 (2005): 91-92.

“El consumo cultural en Estados Unidos. Cultura y vida / Estados Unidos:  Cultura y Elecciones,” Nexos. 26.323 (2004): 95-99.

“El sol ¿dora o no dora las espadas?”  Las armas del alba de Carlos Montemayor.  Nexos.26.313 [Jan.] (2004):  77-79.

“Algunas flautas florales.” El tañido de una flauta y Juegos florales de Sergio Pitol.  Nexos. 26.313 [Feb.] (2004):   76-78.

“Los tres Migueles.”  El taller del tiempo de Álvaro Uribe.  Nexos. 26.316 (2004):  93-95.

“La vida fuera del centro.”  Nueve madrugadas y media de María Luisa Puga.  Nexos. 26.317 (2004):  98-100.

“La locura dilucidada.”  Delirio de Laura Restrepo.  Nexos. 26.320 (2004):  88-89.

“Una reina lejana.”  La reina del sur de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.   Nexos. 25.310 (2003):  85-87.

“Cada quien su alcachofa.”  Tlapalería de Elena Poniatowska.  Nexos. 25.311 (2003):  100-102.

“En la tierra de la grafofobia.” Perros héroes de Mario Bellatín. Nexos. 25.312 (2003): 91, 93-94.

“Carmen Boullosa 1954-.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Editor Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 350. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2014. pp. 225-342. [selection of the criticism and suggestions for further reading]

“Carmen Boullosa.” The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After. Eds. Will H.

Corral, Nicholas Birns, and Juan E. De Castro. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 32-40.

Guadalupe “Pita” Amor (25-27), Rosina Conde (121-123), Elsa Cross (129-131), Amparo Dávila

(139-140), Manú Dornbierer (151-153), Guadalupe Loaeza (285-286), María Luisa Mendoza (320-322), Antonieta Rivas Mercado (447-449), Martha Robles (449-451), Esther Seligson (477-479). In Latin American Women Writers:  An Encyclopedia.  (Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Paulino Bueno), New York and London: Routledge, 2008.

Opinion

“Redesign of NW 17^th St. Is a Positive Step—Now Keep the Momentum Going with More Changes.” The Gainesville Sun, 24 October 2022. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2022/10/24/emily-hind-redesign-nw-17th-st-gainesville-positive-step/10544111002/

“Clearly, No One Is in Charge of Saving Cyclists and Pedestrians.” The Gainesville Sun, 22 August 2022. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2022/08/22/emily-hind-no-one-protecting-gainesville-cyclists-pedestrians/10297045002/

“Dispel Traffic Myths to Make Gainesville Safer.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 13 April 2022. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2022/04/13/emily-hind-dispel-gainesville-traffic-myths-safer-community/9510831002/

“Bilingual Program at Terwilliger in Bad Location for Bike, Bus Riders.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 25 January 2022 https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2022/01/25/emily-hind-terwilliger-elementary-bad-location-bike-bus-riders/6607911001/

“Stop Reading the News Like a Domestic Abuser and Fix the Streets.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 9 November, 2021. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/11/09/emily-hind-gainesvilles-maximum-speed-limit-should-35-mph/6343037001/?fbclid=IwAR2ccKMexu2o5FxrFLAtqdloJnyPZj_gUZBFTHUgLzD6-p7EShJIerlg0RI

“Like Big Tobacco, Auto Industry Spins Lies as It Takes Lives.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 7 September 2021. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/09/07/emily-hind-like-big-tobacco-auto-industry-spins-lies-takes-lives/5695383001/?fbclid=IwAR2ECORW-pkmOveQGN_sBcApp7VMek39hcT7S3RyyJbqAjdS78ccOpCeR-k

“Gainesville Roads Deserve a Medal for Scares, Not Shares.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 23 July 2021. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/07/23/emily-hind-lower-speeds-design-changes-needed-local-roads/7966240002/

“A Plea to Car People: Push for New Park-and-Ride Options at UF.” Opinion, The Gainesville Sun, 19 May 2021. https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/05/19/emily-hind-new-park-and-ride-options-needed-uf/5080395001/  

“Pancho Villa Died in a Car: The Revolution, Petrofied” for Teaching the Mexican Revolution, edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado, MLA Press. Forthcoming.

“Currents Not Waves: Women and the Politics of Gender in the Mexican Novel of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries” for A History of the Mexican Novel edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Anna Nogar, and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Cambridge. Under review.

“User Takes All: Julián Herbert and Carlos Velázquez in Petrosexoracial Self-Portrait,” for a book edited by Amanda Peterson and Cheyla Samuelson, Beyond the Narconovela. Under review.

Plants on Oil in 20^th– and 21^st-C. Mexican Texts, contract with Vanderbilt UP.

Moreno Morales, Magda Ivette. Reseña del libro Literatura infantil y juvenil. Entrevistas. Balajú: Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana. No. 20, 2024, pp. 117-119.

Sánchez Mejía, Cristina. Review of Literatura infantil y juvenil. Entrevistas. Literatura Mexicana, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022, pp. 271-276.

Bayerque, María Ayelén. “Reseña bibliográfica: Emily Hind, Literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana. Entrevistas.” Estudios de la Teoría Literaria. Revista digital: artes, letras y humanidades, julio de 2022, Vol. 11, No. 25, pp. 173-177.

Weber, Jochen. Review of Literatura infantil y juvenil. Entrevistas. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Translated by Nikola von Merveldt. Johns Hopkins UP. Vol 60, No. 1 (2022), pp. 121-123. 10.1353/bkb.2022.0016

Bowskill, Sarah. Review of Dude Lit. Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 40, no. 3, 2021, pp. 472-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13279

Dennstedt, Francesca. Review of Dude Lit. Journal of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, vol.37, no. 3, 2021, pp. 481-484.

Sierra-Rivera, Judith. Review of Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, vol. 9, no. 5, 2020. escholarship.org/uc/item/13q413tx

Foster, David William. “Innovative Interpretations: Three Recent Studies by Latin American Women Scholars.” Mistral: Journal of Latin American Women’s Intellectual & Cultural History, vol. 1, no. 1 (2021), pp. 132-140, https://doi.org/10.21827/mistral.1.37512

Patterson, Courtney. Review of Dude Lit. CBQ Booknotes. Vol. 51, No. 1-2 (2019), pp.50-51.

Marquez, Alejandra. Review of La generación XXX: Entrevistas con veinte escritores mexicanos nacidos en los 70. De Abenshushan a Xoconostle. Romance Notes, vol. 54, 2014, pp. 161-163. DOI:10.1353/rmc.2014.0053

Jörgensen, Beth E. Review of Boob Lit: Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska. Hispanófila, vol. 168, 2013, pp. 170-172. muse.jhu.edu/article/510981/summary

2026                SPW 6286: Disappearance, 1970-2025: Lit, Film, Arts in Latin America II, UF

2026                IDS 2935: History and Politics of Care and Caregiving, UF

2025                IDS 2935: Humans-Oil-Plants-Energy, UF

2025                IDS 2935: Just English?, UF

2025                SPN 3520 Culture and Civilization of Latin America, UF

2025                IDS 2935: Love’s Labor’s Lost? History and Politics of Care and Caregiving, UF

2024                SPW 6934 Prácticas de Cuidado: Estudios Interdisciplinarios, UF

2024                IDS 2935: Love’s Labor’s Lost? History and Politics of Care and Caregiving, UF

2024                SPN 3520 Culture and Civilization of Latin America, UF

2024                IDS 2935: Humans-Oil-Plants-Energy? Confronting Oil By Seeing Green, UF

2023                SPW 6902 Literary Theory of the Anthropocene: Against Complicity, UF

2023                SPW 3031 Sp-Am. Lit. Survey II: Independence to Contemporary Times, UF               

2022 IDS 2935: Humans-Oil-Plants-Energy? Confronting Oil By Seeing Green, UF

2022                SPW 6934 Ni una más/Ni una menos: Estudios Interdisciplinarios, UF

2021                SPW 6286 Plant Studies and Petroculture through Mexican Texts, UF

2021                SPW 4190 Don’t Drink the Micropolastic! (Mexico, Plants, and Oil), UF

2020                IDS 2935 Just English?, UF

2020                SPN 6902 PetroMéxico, UF

2019                SPN 3520 Culture and Civilization of Latin America, UF

2019                SPW 4190 PetroMexico, UF

2019                SPW 4190 Auto/biografía latinoamericana, UF

2019                SPW 6286 Letras mexicanas s. XX-XXI, UF

2018                SPW 4190 Colombian & Mexican Literature, co-taught w Dr. Víctor Jordán, UF

2018                SPW 3031 Sp-Am. Lit. Survey II: Independence to Contemporary Times, UF

2018                SPW 4190 Mexican Literature, UF

2018                SPW 6902 Literary Theory, UF

2017                SPN 3520 Culture and Civilization of Latin America, UF

2017                SPW 6286 Contep. Sp-Am Narr 2: Perú, Argentina, México y más, s. XX-XXI

2016                SPN 3930 Contemporary Mexican Literature, UF

2016                SPW 4283 Sp-Am Contep Narrative II: De la novela gráfica a la cinematográfica, UF

2016                SPW 4930 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin American Short Story and Film

2016                SPW 3031 Sp-Am. Lit. Survey II: Independence to Contemporary Times, UF

2016                SPW 6934 12 autor@s latinoamerican@s nacid@s en los 1970 y 1980, UF

2015                SPW 4283 Sp-Am Contep Narrative II: De la novela gráfica a la cinematográfica, UF

2014                SPW 3031 Sp-Am. Lit. Survey II: Independence to Contemporary Times, UF

2014                SPW 6286 Contep. Sp-Am Narr 2: Lit. mexicana s. XX-XXI: Raíces y riesgos, UF

2013                 Honors Seminar 4151: Debt, Drugs, Piracy, UW

2013                 SPAN 5120 20^th-21^st C. Lit: FromMex.Children’s Lit to Lat. Am. classics, UW

2013                 SPAN 3990 Latin American Culture and Cinema, UW               

2013                 SPAN 4200 Intro. to Research: Mexican Essays and Fascinating Fictions, UW 

2012                 SPAN 3050 Third-Year Spanish I Composition, UW

2012                 SPAN 4200 Intro. to Research: Mexican Nonfiction, UW

2012                SPAN 5120 20^th-21^st C. Lat. Am. Lit:Mex & Puerto Rico: Family Stories, UW

2011                SPAN 4190 Survey 20^th-21^st C. Latin American Literature, UW

2011                 SPAN 4200 Intro to Research: Mexican Nonfiction, UW

2010                 SPAN 4190 Ten Hits by Latin Am. Men Writers, UW

2010                 SPAN 5120 Latin American Women Writers, UW

2010                SPAN 3060 Third-Year Spanish II Composition and Conversation, UW

2010                 SPAN 4125 Mexican Literature: Futures and Foundations, UW

2009                SPAN 4190 Specters in Latin American Lit. and World Cinema, UW

2009                 SPAN 5120 Methods of Literary Analysis, UW

2009                 SPAN 5900 Practicum in College Teaching, UW

2009                 SPAN 4125 Contemporary & Offensive Mexican Lit: Taste and Education, UW

2003-2005        LT 280 Narrativa Latinoamericana II

2004                LE 037 Fundamentos de Análisis y Crítica de la Literatura

2002-2003       LT 131 Modelos Literarios Norteamericanos (E.U.A. y Canadá)

Faculty Advisory Board, University of Florida Press, 2024-2026.

Elected as Vice President of Feministas Unidas, 2022-2025.

Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, committee to choose the best Humanities book 2024, chair, 2024-2025.

Latin American Studies Association, LARR-University of Florida Article Award committee for the LASA2023 Congress to choose the best article published in the Latin American Research Review, 2021-2022.

Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, committee to choose the best Humanities book 2020, chair, 2020-2021.

Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, committee to choose the best Humanities essay 2019, chair, 2019-2020.

Book Review Associate Editor, Chasqui 2016-present.

Latin American Studies Association, member of the Executive Committee of the Mexico section, 2020-2022.

Latin American Studies Association, elected to officers of the Mexico section, 2018-2020.

Chair of the Discussion Group on Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies, MLA. Elected for service on the committee from January 12, 2015 to January 2020 convention.

Latin American Studies Association committee to choose the best Humanities Essay submission, member, 2017.

Member of the Western Hemisphere Literature Peer Review Committee for the Institute of

International Education’s Council for International Exchange for Scholars (CIES) for the Fulbright scholars, 2017-2018.

Affiliate with the Center for Latin American Studies, UF.

Affiliate with the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, UF.

Elected to the Delegate Assembly, MLA, from January 10, 2011 to January 2014 convention.

Member Association for the Study of Arts in the Present, Feministas Unidas, Children’s Literature Association, and more.

2025, “Grieving Disappearance: Amaury Colmenares’s Grimorio and Acequia, Alma Delia Murillo’s La cabeza de mi padre y Raíz que no desaparece, and the Recetario para la memoria Sinaloa and Guanajuato. Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada

2024, “Literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana: propuestas para el aula.” Ponencia plenaria 1. La literatura hispanoamericana en el aula: nuestro norte es el Sur.” Universidad de Alicante, Centro de Estudios Literarios Iberoamericanos Mario Benedetti. [virtual; recorded and broadcast on YouTube.]

2024, “El Papalote Children’s Museum and the Impossible Safe Nest.” XXVIII Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Conference, University of California Irvine.

2024, “Reading Aloud as a Lively, Nonverbal Practice.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2023, Invited commentator on the papers for Performing Authorship. 28 Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. University of Texas El Paso, Texas and Centro Cultural de las Fronteras, Universidad Autónoma Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

2023, “A Perverse Reading of Sin señas particulares, Inspired by the Invisible Gardener of A Better Life.” XXVII Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Conference, University of California Irvine.

2023, Invited contribution on Academic Labor in a Red State, Roundtable “Working under Siege; or, A Hill to Die On.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California.

2022, Invited discussion with Professor Anna Nogar’s class at the University of New Mexico about “Children’s Literature on the Colonia: la Nao de China, the Inquisition, Sor Juana.” In Colonial Returns in Contemporary Mexico. Eds. Oswaldo Estrada and Anna Nogar. Arizona UP, 2014. pp. 211-229. [attended virtually]

2022, Invited contribution on Caretaking and Car Culture, Roundtable “From Pandemic Liminality to Feminist Degrowth Transformation.” American Anthropological Association, Seattle, Washington. [attended virtually]

2022, Invited participant, Tepoztlán Institute, Morelos, Mexico.

2022, “Plant Studies and Petrocultures in Mexican Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” Children’s Literature Association, Atlanta Georgia.

2022, “Mode Shift: From Car-Takers to Care-Takers.” Children’s Literature Association, Atlanta Georgia.

2022, “Phyto-Literacy in Contemporary Mexican Texts: Do Adults Learn What Children Know?” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California. [attended virtually]

2022, “A City on Wheelchairs, Not Cars: From El Bulto to Civics for First Graders.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California. [attended virtually]

2021, “Petrocitizenship and Pedestrians in Contemporary Mexican Films and Novels.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. Virtual Conference.

2020, “Do Critical Plant Studies Illuminate Cristina Rivera Garza’s Work?” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. Salt Lake City, Utah. Canceled (October)

2020, “Autofiction and the Road Trip: Valeria Luiselli’s The Lost Children Archive.” PetroCultures 2020, Stavanger, Norway. Canceled (August)

2020, “Fantasías de madurez: Los padres e hijos hermanados por los viajes en el tiempo.” Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico. Canceled (May)

2020, “Petrodrama! From Rulfo to Roma, Nellie to Luiselli: Reading Mexican Lit on Oil.” Invited talk for Washington University, St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri. Canceled (April)

2020, “Reading Mexican Petroculture through Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma: Where the Asphalt Ends.” Invited talk for the graduate students’ Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference at the University of Florida, Florida. Canceled (March)

2020, “Putting the Genius in Homogenous: Mexican Writers and Masculinities.” Invited talk for the University of South Carolina. Colombia, South Carolina.

2020, Respondent. Roundtable “The Mediation of Migration.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington.

2019, “Risking the Pedant Label to Question Academic Acceptance of Screen Violence.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. College Park, Maryland.

2019, “Death in Mexican Children’s Literature.” Children’s Literature Association, Indianapolis, Indiana.

2019, “Good Grief and the Ecotest in Alberto Chimal’s La partida (2015).” Latin American Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

2018, “Contemporary Mexico and the Colombian Model.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2018, Respondent. “Late Capitalism and Its Discontents: Reflections from Latinx, Lusophone African, and Latin American Contexts.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2018, “Chick Flicks mexicanos: Adonde las viejas van para morirse y las estrellas nunca envejecen.” Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain.

2018, “Fair Trade? Mario Bellatin’s Las dos Fridas and Other Kahlos for Kids.” XXIV Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Conference, University of California Irvine.

2017, “Teaching Mexican Writers: Fat, Age, Migration.” Florida Foreign Language Association Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida.

2017, “A Hand for Bellatin,” First Immersion Series “Art + Orthopaedics,” Institute for Creative Exchange Americas, Toronto, Canada.

2017, Respondent. “Gender Negotiations in Twenty-First-Century Mexican Literature.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2016, “Age Boundaries in 21^st-C Mexico: From Reborn Dolls to Dead Writers’ Birthdays.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 88. Jacksonville, Florida.

2016, “Grammaticalization at the Heart of Mexico: Carla Faesler’s Formol.” IV Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. University of California Santa Barbara.

2015, “Dirty Laundry (Literally) and Third Space in Contemporary Mexican Film.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2015, “El sentimiento democrático, 2005-2015.” Keynote for the Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicación, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

2015, “Elena Poniatowska and the Middle Class: Gente decente Values,” Roundtable on Elena

Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry. Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada.

2014, “Contra lo prosaico: la novela corta como ideología en Antes de Carmen Boullosa,” XL Congreso del IILI, Mexico City, Mexico.

2014,“¿Y la familia revolucionaria? El sentimiento democrático, 2011-2013, frente al padre priista.” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.

2014,“Death, Love, and the Limits of the Novel: Dancer Elena Garro, Poets, Carmen Boullosa

and Myriam Moscona.” XX Congreso Anual de Mexicanistas Juan Bruce Novoa: Amor y Muerte, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.

2014, “El baile como contrapeso a la novela en Los recuerdos del porvenir,” IV Jornadas de la Cultura y la Comunicación: Poderes y resistencias en la Cultura y la Comunicación, Xalapa, Veracruz.

2014, “Representations of Disability in Mexican Mafia Films: A Fictional Absence,” for Roundtable “Disability Discourses in Latin America: Academy and Activism,” arranged by the Discussion Group on Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies and the Division on Disability Studies, Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois.

2014, “Mexicanist Studies Now Or W-T-PRI,” for Roundtable “Mexican Studies and the Return

of the PRI,” arranged by the Discussion Group on Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies, Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois.

2013, “The Rise of Reading Campaigns in post-NAFTA Mexico.” Middle Class Phenomena in Emerging Markets: An International Conference. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

2013, “¿Carácter o personalidad? ¿Decente o fascinante? ¿Recato o encanto? El pensamiento transicional de Asunción Izquierdo Albiñana,” VI Coloquio Internacional de Historia de Género y de las Mujeres en México, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico.

2013, “Lo difícil de la literatura para niños: Morábito, Bef, Chacek y el estilo introvertido,” XVIII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas [Read in my absence due to an impending death in the family.]

2012, “Starring Pirates: Credit, Audiences, and Recent Mexican Film,” Wyoming Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Casper, Wyoming.

2012, “Auras of Celebrity: Authenticity and Interdependence in Recent Mexican Film,” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California.

2012, “The Phallic, the Phatic, and the Funny: Mexican Masculine Talk,” 18^th Annual Mexican Conference, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

2011, “Boob Lit: Feminism and the Mexican Intellectual.” UW Gender & Women’s Studies Program, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

2011, “Vivian Abenshushan, Fabio Morábito y el texto ensayado,” XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

2011, “The Aesthetic Class: Immaterial Self-Worth in Recent Mexican Fiction,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, California.

2010, “Sexo y violencia en el cine mexicano actual,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.

2010, “Emotion in Mexican Letters: Losing It Again,” 16^th Annual Mexican Conference, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

2009, “The Second Order Queer: Esquinca and Bef.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2009, “Traspatio/Backyard de Sabina Berman:  El arte y el negocio de hacer cine activista.” Sepancine Conference / VII Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico.

2009, “How to Escort a Companion:  Packing and Unpacking the Baggage,” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2009, “Mexico Beyond the Borders and into Queer Spaces,” XV Annual Mexicanist Conference, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

2008, “Cazafantasmas de la historia oficial y el espacio semi-público,” Sitios de la memoria en México post-1968, Seminar with Andreas Huyssen, Coordinated by Mónica Szurmuk, Instituto Mora and Maricruz Castro Ricalde, ITESM, Campus Toluca, San Luis Potosí Mexico.

2008, “How Scary is This? Transnational Horror Films and Celluloid Culture,” Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America, Institute for Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico, Puebla Mexico.

2008, “Performing Intellectual Identity:  Catholic Divas and Rational Crusaders,” Boom Femenino en México: Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing Conference, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

2007, “Oppositions in Camp: ‘Mexican’ Contemporary Novels,” Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada.

2007, “Mexico City Cheese: From Colonia to Campground in Texts by Pita Amor, Sabina Berman, and Antonio Serrano,” 13^th Annual Mexican Conference, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

2006, “¿Seguir la onda propia o la segunda ola?  El conflicto de Castellanos,” Coloquio Castellanos, Monterrey, Mexico.

2006, “México norteado: ¿Is US now nosotros?,” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2005, “US-Mexico Relations and Mexican Global Identity,” Second World Congress International American Studies Association, Ottawa, Canada.

2004, “De Rosario Castellanos al Hombre Ilustre, o, Entre dicho y hecho, hay un problemático pecho,” Coloquio Rosario Castellanos, Colegio de México, Mexico City.

2004, “Consuming Cosmopolitanism,”  Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

2004, “Time and Punishment:  Pacheco’s Committed Narrators,” Biannual Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2004, “El calibre del canon mexicano,” Tercera Jornada Académica sobre Nueva Narrativa Mexicana, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

2003, “About the Book No One Read:  Mario Bellatín’s Critiques of Fictitious Writers,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

2003, “Un retrato contradictorio:  Las protagonistas de Elena Poniatowska,” Coloquio Internacional Homenaje a Elena Poniatowska, Colegio de México, Mexico City.

2003, “Provincia in Recent Mexican Cinema,” IX Annual Mexicanist Conference, University of California, Irvine, California.

2003, “The Collapsing Triangle:  U.S. and European References in Recent Mexican Cinema,” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas

2002, “The Dirty Duo:  Susana Pagano’s Trajinar de un muerto and David Toscana’s Santa María del Circo,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic literatures, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.

2002, “Desplazando el centro histórico:  Geografía urbana según Cristina Rivera Garza y Ana Clavel,” Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Casa Lamm, Mexico City.

2002, “Hysterically Speaking:  Science and Mad Women in Sabina Berman’s Feliz nuevo siglo Doktor Freud and Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar,” Biannual Conference on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

2001, “Novel Globalism: Mario Bellatín’s El jardín de la señora Murakami,” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2001, “The Reluctant Feminine in Recent Works by Mexican Women Writers,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Kansas, Laurence, Kansas.

2001, “La historia como conducto a la espiritualidad en la escritura mexicana femenina,” Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Casa Lamm, Mexico City.

Elected to Faculty Senate, 2018-2021, 2024-2027, UF

Admissions Committee, Masters in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, 2025-2026, UF

Infrastructure Council, 2025-2028, UF

Merit Pay Committee, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, 2025-2026, UF

Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2014-2020, 2023-2025, Chair 2025-2027, UF

Charles Wood Best Thesis Award Committee, Center for Latin American Studies, 2024-2025, UF.

Finance Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2022-2023, UF

Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee 2022-2025, UF

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for 3000 course, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2022-2024, UF

Fieldwork Festival Committee, Center for Latin American Studies 2022, 2024 UF

Faculty Advisory Council, Center for Latin American Studies 2021-2023, UF

Ad-hoc Committee on Graduate Curriculum and Assessment, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2021-2022, UF

Graduate Studies Committee (as representative of the literature section), Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2021-2023, UF

Scheduling for the Literature Section, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2021-2022, UF

Field Research Grants Selection Committee with the Center for Latin American Studies 2020, UF

Search Committee Smathers Library for Latin American and Caribbean digital (Cuba-centered) librarian 2016-2020, UF

Search Committee for Colonial Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2018-2019, UF

Selection Committee for the Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Competition 2018, UF

Member of language-themed group that received an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Seed Grant, 2018-2020, UF

Advisory Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2016-2020, Fall 2025, UF

Faculty Advisory Council, Center for Latin American Studies 2016-2018, UF

Search Committee for Heritage/Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2017-2018, UF

Interdisciplinary Working Group on the Arts and Humanities: Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) as a Research/Teaching Commons 2016-2017, UF

Advisory Board for the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) 2015-2017, UF

Latin American Studies summer Field Research Grant (FRG) Selection Committee 2016, UF

Selection Committee for the Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Competition 2015, UF

Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2014, UF

USP (University Studies Program) Committee, subsection 2013 UW

Chicano Studies and English Search Committee 2012-2013 UW

Humanities Initiative Steering Committee, 2012-2013 UW

Assessment work for the Spanish program, 2012-2013 UW

Queer Studies Advisory Board, 2012-2013 UW

ECTL [Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning] Director Search Committee, 2011 UW

Spanish Assistant Professor Search Committee, 2010-2011 UW

French Instructor Search Committee, 2009 UW

Summer Independent Study Grant Awarding Committee, 2009-2011 UW

Spanish Instructor Search Committee, 2007 UW

Assessment Committee for the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, 2007 UW

2014-present,member of doctoral committees for Spanish & Portuguese Studies, UF

2025-present, member of doctoral committee for Zyanya Dóniz Ibáñez, Georgetown University

2024, director of dissertation by Gustavo Velázquez Lazcano, “Literatura contemporánea infantojuvenil chicamex: Voces minoritarias y pluriversalismo decolonial.”

2023, director of dissertation by María Hernández González, “Petro-indígena: energopoder y petrocultura en textos y proyectos folklóricos mexicanos durante los siglos 20 y 21.”

2020, External committee member for dissertation, Alejandra Vela, New York University, New York

2018-2020, External committee member for dissertation, Francesca Dennstedt, Washington University, St. Louis

2020, Second reader for honors thesis, Nicole Garcia, UF

2015-2018, External committee member for dissertation, Cristina Ruiz-Poveda (English)

2019-present, Spanish Language Exam Coordinator for the Center for Latin American Studies

2014, Director, M.A. thesis committee: Kathryn Bodnar, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW

2013-2014 Graduate Student Advisor UW

2012-2013 Assessment of the Spanish Program UW

2010-2012 Sponsor of Sigma Delta Pi / Spanish Club UW

2013, Member, dissertation committee: Esther Sánchez-Couto, U of North Carolina Chapel Hill

2013, Director, M.A. thesis committee: Katherine Fisher, Brett Gadbury, Mike Vinces, and Pablo Zavala, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW

2013, Co-director, M.A. thesis committee: Paola Zavala (co-director)

2012, Director, M.A. thesis committee: Elizabeth Fisherkeller, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW

2012, Director, honors thesis: Kathryn Snyder, University of Wyoming

2011, Director, M.A. thesis committee: Laura Reinhold, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW

2011, Member, M.A. thesis committee: Michael Gonda and Xuan-Xabier Huynh, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW

2010, Member, M.A. thesis committee: Helis Sikk, American Studies, UW.

2009, Director, honors thesis: Alysa Schroff, UW

2009, Member, M.A. thesis committee: Josh King, American Studies, UW

2009, Member, M.A. thesis committee: Rachel Schlegal, and Ryan Wehner. Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW.

2008, Member, M.A. thesis committee: Diann Olson, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW.

2008, Teaching mentor: Amy Fullerton, Rachel Schlegal, Derek Schroeder, and Ryan Wehner

2007, Teaching mentor: Jennifer Levanchy, Derek Schroeder, Ryan Wehner, and Nathan Wilhelm.

2007, Member, M.A. Thesis Committee: Carlos Salas, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Wyoming.

2007, Teaching Mentor: Stephen Burke, Jason Burke, and Mary Kretzschmar.

2006, Teaching Mentor: Stephen Burke, Mary Kretzschmar, and Martha Muciño.

2006, Co-director, M.A. Thesis Committee: Brandon Preator, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, UW.

2005-2009, Member, dissertation committee: Brenci Patiño, U of Illinois at  Urbana-Champaign.

2004-2005, Member of Queer Theory Discussion Group, Instituto Mora, Mexico City.