Education and Academic Degrees:

Columbia University, B.A., Major in European Intellectual History
Yale University, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Medieval Spanish Literature

Areas of Specialization:

Foreign Language Acquisition, Medieval Literature, Critical Theory, Contemporary Spanish Language Media

Selected papers:

Hispanic Immigration Stories: Materials for Content-based Proficiency Acquisition. 2005 Annual Meeting of ACTFL. Baltimore, MD. November 18, 2005.

Patronio’s Dangerous Game: The Domestication of Alterity in the Libro de Patronio y del Conde Lucanor. 2003 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association in Colorado Springs, CO. Session of May 13, 2003.

Content-Based Foreign Language Instruction. 2001 Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association. October 2001.

Menéndez Pidal and the Jews: Faithful Memory and Return to Exile. 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Sephardic Studies Section. July 2001.

What's love got to do with it? Ramón Menéndez Pidal and the Erotic Origins of Traditionalism. 2000 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association in Snowbird, Utah. Session of May 12, 2000.

«¿Quién hubiese tal ventura?»: Menéndez Pidal's Autobiographical Romance. Harvard University, Center for Cultural and Literary Studies, Hispanic Culture in Comparative Context Seminar. Session of April 18, 1995.

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