Degrees

• M.A., University of Washington, Spanish, 1991
• Ph.D., University of Washington, Romance Languages and Critical Theory, 1996

Academic Experience

• Professor, Tulane University, 2013-
• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2004-2013
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2000-2003
• Assistant Professor, Willamette University, 1997-1999
• Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1989-1996

Distinctions

• Lurcy Fellowship, Tulane University, 2009, 2013
• Community Based Research Grant, Re-Bridge and Tulane University, Bayou St. John Restoration Project, 2012
• Research Enhancement Grant, Tulane University, 2006
• Stoll Endowed Scholars Development Grant, 2005
• Research Grants, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education and United States universities, 2003, 2004, 2005
• Culpepper Course Development Grant, Tulane University, 2001
• Mellon Grant, 1999

Languages

• Croatian
• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese
• Turkish

Overseas Experience

• Croatia
• Spain
• Cuba

Related Experience

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Tulane University, 2006-2012
• Organizer, Film series and symposium: “Politics of Memory, Memory of Politics: Film and History in Contemporary Spain and Latin America,” Tulane University, 2007
• Tulane Faculty Service-Learning Seminar, Tulane University, Fall 2006
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Tulane University, 2006-
• Organizer, “Mirta Yañez, Literary Encounters: Contemporary Cuban Literature,” Havana, 1997
• Consultant reviewer, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2005-

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. “The Hidden Durability of Jesús “Jess” Franco’s Films.” The Films of Jess Franco. Edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney. Manchester University Press.
• 2013. “Introduction.” In A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic, eds. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 1-11.
• 2013. “Child Stars: Pablito Calvo, Joselito, Marisol, Pili and Mili, Rocío Dúrcal.” In A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic, eds. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 319-342.
• 2011. The Mobile Nation: España cambia de piel . Bristol: Intellect.
• 2008. “Los paraísos perdidos: Cinema of Return and Repetition.” In Burning Darkness: a Half a Century of Spanish Cinema. Joan Ramón, ed. Albany: State of New York Press. 105-124.
• 2008. 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2006. “Allegorizing the Body Politic: Masculinity and History in El jardín de las delicias and Carne trémula.” Studies in Hispanic Cinema. 3 (3): 149-167.
• 2004. “Espana cambia de piel: The Mobile Nation (1954-1964).” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Fall: 213-226.
• 2002. “Remembering/ Disremembering the Nation: The Archaeology of Lost Knowledge.” In From Gender to Nation. Rada Ivekovic and Julie Mostov, eds. University of Bologna: Longo Editore Ravenna.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• SPAN 4170: Intro to Spanish Film
• SPAN 4210: Spanish and Latin American Cinema
• SPAN 7910: Topics in Peninsular Literature