EDUCATION

1985-1992 M.A. (1989), Ph.D. (1992), Spanish, Yale University.

Dissertation: "Illness and Writing: Decadence and Degeneration in Four Spanish American Modernist Writers"
1991 Harvard University, Exchange Scholar
1984-1985 University of Texas at Austin, Comparative Literature Program
1980-1984 B.A., English, Amherst College, magna cum laude

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Literature
Contemporary Literary Theory
Modernism
Cultural and Gender Studies

PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books

Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America. New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, January 2000. 157 pages.
Sites of Race and Gender in Film Noir. Co-authored with Kelly Oliver. Solicited by Rutgers University Press.

Edited Books

Foucault and Latin America: Deployments and Appropriations of Discursive Analysis. Forthcoming from Routledge Fall 2001.

Articles in Refereed Journals

"Thinking Subjectivity in Latin American Criticism." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34.2 (2000): 309-329.
"Anemia and Vampires: Figures to Govern the Colony; Puerto Rico (1880-1903)." Comparative Studies in Society and History 41:1 (January 1999).
"Crossing the Boundaries of Madness: Criminology and Figurative Language (1878-1920)." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 6.1 (1997): 7-20.
"Los raros de Darío y el discurso alienista finisecular." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 18.2 (1994): 293-307.
"La función crítica del discurso alienista en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva." Hispanic Journal 15.1 (1994): 133-146.
"Walking Backwards to the Future: Time, Travel and Race." Under review by Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

Translations and Book Review

Review of Nina Gerassi-Navarro's Pirate Novels; Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America. Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

De Man, Paul. "El Yo literario como origen: la obra de Georges Poulet." Trans. Benigno Trigo. Visión y ceguera. Ed. H. Rodríguez-Vecchini and J. Lezra. Río Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1990: 91-115

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Melancholy Novel: (Re)membering the Abject Body.Book manuscript on Latin American women writers and Latina writers, including chapters on Elena Garro, Rosario Ferré, Irene Vilar, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

"Thinking Subjectivity in Latin American Criticism." Latin American Studies Association, Miami 2000.

"Otros testimonios: Priests, Jews, and Maricones." (Respondent) Modern Languages Association, Chicago 1999.

"The Case of a Missing Body: Thinking Subjectivity in Latin America." 38 Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene 1999.

"Alexander Humboldt and Agustín Codazzi." 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Milwaukee 1999.

"Walking Backwards to The Future: Time, Travel and Race." Modern Language Association, San Francisco 1998.

"Mapping Landscapes and Bodies: Humboldt and the Chorography Commission in Colombia (1799-1859)." Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge 1998.

"Modernismo y Degeneración." Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Guadalajara 1997.

"Medicina y lenguaje de sobremesa." Modern Language Association, New York 1995.

"Adjusting the Boundaries of Madness: Language in Ingenieros's School of Criminology." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lawrence 1994.

INVITED LECTURES

"Science and the Creative Imagination." Institute of Latin American Studies University of London, London 2001.

"La respuesta a Octavio Paz: Elena Garro en el laberinto de la soledad" Institute of Latin American Studies University of Bergen, Norway 2000.

"Memory in Octavio Paz and Elena Garro; On Tendentious History and Willful Testimony." Humanities Institute, State University of New York, Stony Brook 1999.

"Anemia and Vampires: Figures to Govern the Colony." State University of New York, Stony Brook 1998.

"Degeneration in Jorge Isaacs's María." University of Canberra, Canberra 1995.

"Back to the Future: Time and Degeneration." Australia National University, Canberra 1995.

"La función crítica del discurso alienista en De sobremesa, de José Asunción Silva." Faculty Lecture Series, U. of Texas at Austin 1993.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2000- Assistant Professor SUNY, Stony Brook.
1998-1999 Visiting Assistant Prof. SUNY, Stony Brook.
1992-1998 Assistant Professor, UT, Austin.
1992 Instructor UT, Austin.
1991 Lecturer Brandeis U.
1991 Instructor U. Mass., Harbor Campus.
1988-1990 Part-time Instructor Yale U.

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate
Ordering and Disrupting Fictions: Modernity in Spanish American Literature; Modernismo in Spanish America; Theory and Practice; Naturalismo y modernismo.