A lector of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, I have taught beginning, intermediate, and advanced Spanish, and I have experience with study abroad programs, as well as language for specific purposes (LSP) courses. I hold a Certificate in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), a Certificate in Distance Language Teaching, and a Certificate of College Teaching Preparation from Yale. From 2018 to 2021, I served as a graduate fellow for language education at Yale’s Center for Language Study, where I co-facilitated a series of workshops on language pedagogy for graduate students in their teaching years.
I received my PhD in Spanish Literature, with a Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Yale in 2021. Though I often take a transatlantic approach to my teaching, I specialized in the histories, cultures, and literatures of Spain, and more broadly of the Iberian Peninsula, during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In my dissertation, I reconceptualized the Spanish Civil War as an Iberian conflict, which makes for an innovative contribution to Iberian studies, a field that seeks to recognize the multicultural realities of the peninsula. This background in literary and cultural studies has served me well for teaching texts in the classroom and for taking on literary translation projects.
My research and professional development has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale.