| November 2000 |
Receipient of the Dissertation Year Felloship from the UCLA Graduate Division, through September of 2001. |
| September 1999 |
Receipient of Del Amo Fellowship for the position of Editor-in-Chief at Mester, the graduate Journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA. |
| May 1999 |
Receipient of a 1999 Summer Research
Mentorship grant, from the UCLA Graduate Division |
| April 1999 |
"Reglas y Quimeras: La Poética Horaciana en el 'Coloquio de los Perros,'" published in the Actas del Coloquio Internacional Cervantes en Andalucía, held on December 3-5th 1998 in Estepa, Sevilla. |
| April 1996 |
"Glass Characters and Glass Fictions: the Poetics of El Curioso Impertinente and El Licenciado Vidriera" published in Mester XXV/1. |
| February 1996 |
Receipient of Del Amo Fellowship for the doctoral program of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Los Angeles. |
| February 2000 |
"Grotesque Violence in Quevedo and Cervantes," read at the Sixth Annual ACMRS Conference, Tempe, Arizona, February 17-19, 2000. |
| April 1999 |
"Nabokov's Cervantes and a Bakhtinian Alternative," read at the Eleventh Annual Southern California Cervantes Symposium, Occidental College, April 24th. |
| February 1999 |
"Models of Desire in Lope de Vega's 'El Perro del Hortelano,'" read at La Chispa, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, February 25-7th. |
| November 1998 |
"Manly Virtue in Ruiz de Alarcon's 'Las Paredes Oyen': A Machiavellian Reading," read at the PA-MLA, November 6-8th, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. |
| October 1998 |
"Uses of Fortuna in 'Tirant lo Blanc,'" read at the Medieval And Early Modern Student Organization Of The Pacific, MEMSOP 98, at the University of Washington, Seattle. October 23-4th. |
| January 1998 |
"Captivity and Violence in Cervantes," read at the 1998 Cervantes Society of America meeting. |
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| Sept. 98 - June 99 |
Teaching Assistant, UCLA Spanish & Portuguese. Spanish 120A: Medieval, Colonial and Golden Age Literature. Spanish II & III. |
| Sept. 96 - Mar. 97 |
English Instructor, Dunedin College.Full
time teaching of English at a private academy in Granada, Spain. |
| Aug. 94 - May 96 |
Teaching Assistant, NYU Spanish
& Portuguese. First and Second Year Spanish Language during four semesters. |
| Summer 92-95 |
English Instructor in Lithuania. Intensive language teaching and tutoring of intermediate and advanced levels in Lithuania, through Youth Service International (Chicago). |
| Summer 94-95 |
English Instructor: Headmaster-Instructor of the English camp at Colegio Ecos, Marbella, and Counselor-Instructor at the Parquelagos English camp in Madrid. |
| Spring 92- 94 |
Service Project: Monterrey, Mexico. Volunteer at La Ciudad de los Niños, and educational institution for underprivileged children. |
| Editor-in-Chief, Mester Literary Journal: reader/editor 1997-99, editor-in-chief 1999-2000.
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Graduate Technology Consultant: Provided technical assistance on course-websites to
Faculty and TA's, during the 1997-8 academic year. |
Languages:
7 years of Latin, 2 years of Greek. Reading knowledge of French. Fluent in Italian, proficient in English, native speaker of Spanish.
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--1998 Summer Institute: The Artist in n Age of Imperial Culture, Pennsylvania State University.
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--Theater of the Golden Age, UC Riverside, Fall 97
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--Theater and Narrative of the Golden Age, UCLA Winter 98
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--Cervantes: life and works, Spring 97, Winter 99 and Spring 99
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--Renaissance in Europe I & II, Columbia University Spring 95 & Fall 95
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--History of Rhetoric, UCLA English Department, Spring 97
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--French Renaissance, UCLA Fall 97
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--Early Modern European History, UCLA Fall 98 & Winter 99
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