Education

Publications

• “Binging Cervantes: Una lectura biosemiótica de Don Quijote a partir de la serie de televisión The Expanse (Amazon Prime)”, Laberinto Journal 15, 2022
• Review of Narrar lo invisible (Avilés Diz & Ferreira, eds.), Feministas Unidas, 2021
• Review of Robo Sacer by David Dalton, H-Sci-Med-Tech, 2024
• “Disruptive Imaginations, Joint SFRA-GfF Conference, TU Dresden,” with Lopes and Yoshinaga, Utopian Studies 35.2–3 (2024): 768–775

Work in Progress

• Accepted: “Amazonian Extractivism and Plant-Semiosis in La mirada de las plantas de Edmundo Paz Soldán,” Ecozon@
• In revision: “Marea verde (1951): Reglas para el parque humano en la ciencia ficción falangista,” Alambique

Dissertation

Conference Activity

• “Attitudes towards Spanish in an Online Mixed Spanish for Business Class,” U of Arizona, 2024
• “Translating Environmental Knowledges through Poetry,” NE AZ Book Festival, 2024
• “Meat, Sickness and Knowledge in Tender is the Flesh and Mugre Rosa,” SFRA–GfF, 2023
• “Ecological Knowledge as a Common in Derrotero,” ASLE + AESS, 2023
• “Radical Empathy and AI for Heritage Teachers,” ASU Share Day, 2023
• “Translating as a Way of Existing,” NE AZ Book Festival, 2023
• “What Does It Mean to Write ‘Good’?” ASU Share Day, 2022
• “Consumo cyborg en Kentukis,” NeMLA, 2022
• “Biosemiotic Cervantes,” SPAGrad ASU, 2022
• “Trauma and Materiality in Campo Minado,” CILH, 2021
• “Baroque Realism in Rosario Bléfari’s Amaretto,” SPAGrad ASU, 2021
• “Domestic Labor and Performance in Reina del Paraguay,” SPAGrad ASU, 2020

University Service

• Spanish Heritage Program Conference
• Thousand Languages Project, Hayden Ferry Review, ASU
• Undergraduate Conference Organization Committee (Heritage Track), 2021–2024
• Graduate Women’s Association – Co-President, 2022–2023
• Sigma Delta Pi – President, 2020–2022
• SPAGrad ASU – Conference Committee, 2020–2022
• Spanish Name Pronunciation Workshop, ASU Cronkite School

Teaching Experience

• SPA 471 – Indohispanomexican Civilizations (online)
• SPA 429 – Writing Mexico (online)
• SPA 414 – Spanish for Sustainability (online)
• SPA 416 / SPA 316 – Spanish for Advanced Bilinguals (in person & online)
• SPA 325 – Introduction to Hispanic Literature (online)
• SPA 319 – Business Correspondence and Communication (online)
• SPA 313 – Spanish Conversation and Composition (online/in person)
• SPA 201 / 102 / 101 – Elementary and Intermediate Spanish (hybrid/online/in person)

Research Assistantships

• 2020 – David Foster (Buenos Aires Literature and Visual Culture)
• 2021 – Cynthia Tompkins (Latin American Film)
• 2023 – Joni Adamson (Environmental Humanities)
• 2024 – Sally Kitch (Feminist Futures)

Awards

• 2025 – Completion Fellowship Award, ASU
• 2023 – Foster Latin American Summer Stipend / Travel Award, ASU
• 2022 – Excellence in Teaching Award, Spanish Heritage Program
• 2022 – Best Practices Award, Sigma Delta Pi (AATSP)

Grants

• 2023 – Humanities for the Environment Travel Grant
• 2022 – SILC Travel Grant
• 2022 – ASU GPSA Travel Grant
• 2020 – Podcasting the Humanities Winter Institute (NHC / SDSU)

Published Translations (ENG→SPA)

• Richard Newhauser. Por una Edad Media sensorial, UNMdP, 2023
• Thousand Languages Project, Hayden Ferry Review, ASU
• Turn it Around! Flashcards for Education Futures, UNESCO / OSF, 2021
• Eduardo Kohn. Cómo piensan los bosques, Abya Yala / Hekt, 2021

Professional Memberships & Affiliations

Professional Development

• Accessible Content Creator Badge, ASU, 2023
• Masterclass for Teaching Online, ASU, 2019

Languages

• Spanish – Native
• English – Fluent
• French & German – Good reading
• Latin / Greek / Sanskrit – Translational proficiency with dictionary

References