EDUCATION
New York University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. (Ph.D.), 2002
The New School for Social Research. Political Science (M.A.), 1996.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito, Licenciatura en Filosofía, 1990. FELLOWSHIPS,

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
UPP Personal Development Award 2003
Penfield Fellowship 2000-2001.
Dissertation Fellowship. Department of Spanish and Portuguese - NYU. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Nominee by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. NYU 1999 - 2000.
New York University Teaching Assistantship 1996 - 2000.
Coca-Cola Travel Fund 1998, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of NYU. Organization of American States Fellowship 1995-1997.
Janey Program Latin American Studies Fellowship, New School for Social Research 1992-1994.
Fulbright Fellowship 1991-1993.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor SUNY- Stony Brook 2002 - to the present Introduction to Latin American Literatures SPN395 Introduction to Latin American Literatures SPN396 Practical Spanish SPN322 Latin American Today HUS254 It is a Man's Thing. Caudillos in Contemporary Latin American Literature 435 Topics Seminar 612 Lecturer Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies NYU Summer-2002; Summer 2004 Graduate Seminar on "Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Spanish Instructor at New York University 1996 - 2002.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
Committee Member for "Best Paper Award" at the Hispanic Language Department SUNY Stony Brook.
Organizer of "Recent Shorts from Latin America: Short films by young Latin American Artists." King Juan Carlos I Center. Fall - 2000.
Organizer of the "Gender and Masculinity Lecture Series" NYU, 1999-2000. Member of International Advisory Board: Cuadernos de Investigación en Cultura y Política. Buenos Aires, Fundación del Sur. Conference Committee: Outer Limits: Geografías Móviles.
Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1999.
Host and organizer of independent poetry and fiction bilingual readings in Café-Café. New York, 1998-1999.
Conference Committee: Writing Memory. Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1997.
Host of the literary section of the radio program "Nueva canción y demás" WKCR Columbia University radio station, 1995 -1997.
Contributor: Revista Cultural Diners. Quito, Ecuador. Editorial Assistant: Revista Difusión Cultural. Banco Central del Ecuador 1987 -1989.
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
In the Company of Men. Caudillo Masculinity in Latin American Narrative. Forthcoming
"Caudillo Politics and the Poetics of Masculinity in an Anti-Peronist Novel" in Latin American Literary Review.
"When Politicians Construct Father World(l)s. Sergio Ramírez Adiós Muchachos" in Romance Notes. Published
"Current Readings on Gender in Latin America: Infamous Desire. Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America and Gender in Latin America" in Men and Masculinities (books review) "Tiranos y poetas: masculinidad y nación en la narrativa nicaragüense contemporánea" in Kipus. Revista andina de letras. No.13/2002 (Editor) Crítica de la literaria ecuatoriana. Hacia el nuevo siglo FLACSO -Quito, 2001.
"Jirones en el tejido de la crítica. Los aportes de la crítica literaria ecuatoriana" in Crítica de la literatura ecuatoriana. Hacia un nuevo siglo FLACSO - Quito, 2001. "Otra manera de celebrar. La fiesta del Chivo" Kipus, revista andina de letras. No. 12. II Semestre /2001
"Autobiografía, historia nacional y política" Nueva Sociedad 170, 2000. "Pensando a los intelectuales" in Apuntes de Investigación No. 4. Buenos Aires, (1999).
"La fruta no sabe igual. Ancianos hispanos en Nueva York" in Nueva Sociedad No. 129. Caracas (1994). Article winner of the Latin American Essay Contest: Infancia y vejez. Castigo y margen. Nueva Sociedad, 1994.
Journalism
"Lo valiente no quita lo cortés. Entrevista con el ecuatoriano fundador de 1800 - Mattress." Revista Diners, April, 1997.
"Volver a los 14: La Guardia High School." Revista Diners. September, 1996. "Perón, una vida. Entrevista con Tomás Eloy Martínez." Revista Diners. March, 1996.
"Ellen Steward: Una leyenda en Nueva York." Revista Diners. March, 1995. "Otro modo de pensar en América. La infatigable Jean Franco en Nueva York." Página 12 Primer Plano, Suplemento Cultural. August 5, 1994.
Ficcion Historias de la radio. Quito, Editorial El Conejo: 1997.

CONFERENCES AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"La Fiesta del Chivo. A Case of Hysteria in a Caudillo Novel." NECLAS. Dartmouth College. October, 2003. "Writing and Hysteria: The Voice of Women in Caudillo Novels." in Interdepartmental Faculty and Student Colloquium. October, 2003.
"Esto es cosa de hombres. Los caudillos en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea". Universidad de Costa Rica. San José, July, 2002.
"Literatura y masculinidad. Una nueva lectura de las novelas del caudillo". Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar. Quito, Octubre , 2001.
"Cultural Colonization in Sex and Gender: The Syncretic Influence of a Disciplinary Technology." Second Annual International Conference on Postcolonial Studies, University of Vigo - Spain, 24-26 October, 2001.
"Genealogía del estereotipo: construcción de lo regional en el Ecuador Colonial." LASA Washington, September, 2001.
"Masculinity and Nation in Contemporary Nicaraguan Fiction." Posting the Male: Representations of Masculinity in the Twentieth Century. John Moores University. Liverpool - UK, August, 2000.
"Dismembering as a Foundational Act. The Story of Rubén Darío's Brain and the Masculine Characterization of Nicaraguan Nationhood." Interruptus, Harvard University Student Conference. May, 2000.
"The Mirror has Two Faces: The Masculine in Margarita, está linda la mar." LASA. Miami, March, 2000.
"Seducción y resistencia en la literatura anti-Peronista." Outer Limits: Geografías Móviles. Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1999.
"Nacimiento y "muerte" del discurso liberal en el Ecuador del XIX." Cultural Locations. San Francisco, October, 1997.
"Nación y exceso: la masculinidad en La vorágine." Terceras Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Quito, July, 1997.
"La confraternidad masculina en el Modernismo, el caso de De sobremesa." Writing Memory. Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1997. "Modernismo y masculinidad en De sobremesa." III Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. México, July, 1996.
"Autobiografía y reconocimiento: el caso de un esclavo cubano." Borderlands: Frontiers, Flows and Dissolution. Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1996.
"El transvestismo en la fiesta de la Mama Negra." Politics and Culture in Contemporary Latin America. The New School for Social Research Student Conference. February, 1996. Moderator and discussant: Latin American Studies Student Conference. SUNY - Stony Brook April, 2003.
"Re-escribir y re-presentar: construcción de género en la memoria." Writing Memory, Columbia - NYU Student Conference. March, 1997.

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Language Association.
Latin American Studies Association.
New England Council of Latin American Studies.

CURRENT AND FUTURE AREAS OF RESEARCH
Current research on issues of violence and drugs.

LANGUAGES
Spanish: mother tongue. English: excellent. Portuguese: very good. French: reading ability.