Degrees

• B.A., Biola University, English, 1983
• M.A., University of Washington, English Literature, 1986
• M.A., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1991
• Ph.D., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1995

Academic Experience

• Sizeler Professor in Jewish Studies, Tulane, 2017-
• Associate Professor, Tulane, 2005-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2001-2005
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2002
• Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 1998

Distinctions

• Sizeler Professorship in Jewish Studies, 2017-2020
• Fulbright Flexible Teaching-Research Fellowship in Argentina, 2016-2017
• Stone Center Summer Research Fellowship, 2012, 2013
• Lurcy Research Fellowships, 2008, 2009, 2013
• Lurcy Research Fellowships, 2008, 2009, 2013
• Deep South Regional Humanities Center Research Grant, 2005
• NEH Summer Institute Participant, "The Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies," The Ohio State University, 2001
• NEH Summer Institute Participant, "Roots: The African Background of American Culture, through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade," University of Virginia, 1998

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French

Overseas Experience

• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Argentina
• Ecuador

Related Experience

• Co-Coordinator, Tropical Exposures: Photography, Film and Visual Culture in a Caribbean Frame conference, Tulane University, 2016
• Resident Co-Director, Tulane Summer in Argentina, 2016
• Resident Director, Tulane Semester in Cuba, 2012, 2015
• Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2009-2012
• Member of Editorial and Review Boards for “Comparative Literature,” “Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,” and “Latin American Music Review,” “Latino Studies,” and the Palgrave Series in Latin American Music and Literature
• Coordinator, Virtual Caribbeans Conference, Tulane University, 2008
• Co-coordinator for the symposium “Re/Viewing the Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on Cuba, 1959-2009,” Tulane University, 2009
• Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. “Racial Pathology, Resistance, and Recovery in the Queloides and Drapetomanía Exhibitions.” Afro-Hispanic Review.
• 2017. “Movimiento y estasis en los viajes interamericanos de José Martí.” Boletín de Literatura Comparada 42.
• 2017. “Roberto Diago and the Past in Present Times” ArtonCuba, September-November.
• 2017. “El funyi de Gardel. Cada día luce mejor.” In Pasado de moda, edited by Regina Root and Susan Hallstead, Ampersand, 172-187.
• 2016. “Sardonic Recurrence and Barking Dogs in Julio Cortázar's Library of Tangos.” Hispanic Review 84(1): 1-23.
• 2015. “Padura transatlántico.” A contracorriente 13(1): 105-27.
• 2015. “Ringside with Cuba's National Poet.” Hispania 98(1): 123-38.
• 2014. Tango Lessons. Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2014. “Introduction: The Tango Continuum” and “Picturing Tango.” In Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Marilyn Miller, editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2013. “Lives and Afterlives of José María Silva's Gardel Portraits.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 22(4): 417-435.
• 2010. “Reading Juan Francisco Manzano in the Wake of Alexander von Humboldt.” Atlantic Studies 7(2): 162-189. Special Issue, “Alexander von Humboldt‘€™s Transatlantic Personae,” ed. Vera M. Kutzkinski.
• 2008. “‘The Soul Has No Color’ but the Skin Does: Angelitos negros and the Use of Blackface on the Mexican Silver Screen, ca. 1950.” In Global Soundscapes. Mark Slobin, ed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 241-257.
• 2008. “‘Tengo de árabes noble descendencia’: orientalismo y el retorno al país natal en Zafira de Juan Francisco Manzano.” In Moros en la costa. Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, ed. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 91-110.
• 2005. “Slavery, Cimarronaje and Poetic Refuge in Nancy Morejón.” Afro-Hispanic Review. 24 (2): 103-25.
• 2005. “Rebeldia narrativa, resistencia poetica y expresion ‘libre’ en Juan Francisco Manzano.” Revista Iberoamericana. LXXI (211).
• 2004. Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• Latin American Cultural Studies
• Film and Literature in Latin America
• Modern Readings in Spanish