I earned my Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures at Boston University. I hold a B.A. in Humanities with a mention in Psychology, Linguistics, and Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. My academic field is early modern Hispanic studies, and my research focuses on Morisco and Aljamiado literature. I study the texts produced by Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) during their final expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. Currently, I am working on a comparative study of religious polemics between Old Christians and Moriscos in 17th-century Spain and Tunisia.
Degree | Program | University |
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Ph.D. | Hispanic Language and Literature | Boston University |
Baccalaureate degree (foreign) | Linguistics and Literature | Universidad Católica del Peru |
Baccalaureate degree (foreign) | Psychology | Universidad Católica del Peru |
My Siena Experience
My Teaching Philosophy
What I Love About Siena
Siena is a great place to work and teach. The things that I love the most about it are the dedicated students, my awesome colleagues, the great ITS staff, the beautiful campus, and the long-term parking.
My Favorite Courses to Teach
SPAN301 & SPAN302. Communication in Spanish I & II. In this class students are able to learn about cultural issues in the Spanish-speaking world, and work on fun projects like creating a news podcast or setting ap an altar de muertos.
SPAN320. Introduction to Hispanic Literature. See an example of students' creative writing projects here.
SPAN355. Transatlantic Connections in the Spanish-Speaking World.
SPAN400. Special Topics in Spanish. Students in this class read, do research, and write about relevant topics in Spanish literature from the Medieval and Early Modern periods. For "Minorities in the Early Modern Spanish-Speaking World", students worked on an online project that can be seen here.
My Professional Experience
Year | Title | Organization |
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2017 - Now | Associate Professor of Spanish | Siena College |
2011 - 2017 | Assistant Professor of Spanish | Siena College |
2006 - 2011 | Assistant Professor of Spanish | Colby College |
2005 - 2006 | Lecturer of Spanish | Brandeis University |
1997 - 2005 | Teaching Fellow | Boston University |
1994 - 1997 | Teaching Assistant | Universidad Católica del Perú |
Current Research
Articles & Book Reviews
- (Book Review) Infante, Catherine. The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
Bulletin of the Comediantes
2023 - De Granada al Nuevo Mundo: El sujeto conquistado en 'El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón', de Lope de Vega
Hispanical
2023 - (Book Review) Green-Mercado, Mayte. Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures
2021 - Polémica anticristiana en el Norte de África: el caso de dos moriscos españoles del siglo XVII
Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
2020 - (Book Review) Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, Eds. and Trans. "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja": Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
Sixteenth Century Journal
2016 - 'Toda obra loa y alaba a su Hacedor': de las transgresiones y subversiones del autor en 'La Lozana andaluza'
Romance Notes
2015 - (Book Review) Anne Marie Wolf. Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace. Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century
Sixteenth Century Journal
2015 - El enemigo musulmán en 'El Abencerraje': Abindarráez, los moriscos y la personificación de la derrota
e-Humanista
2015 - 'Viaje de Turquía': la representación de los turcos en un diálogo del siglo XVI
Hispania Félix:Revista hispano-rumana de cultura y civilización de los Siglos de Oro
2011
Awards & Distinctions
- International Travel Faculty Fellowship
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2022 - Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2019
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2017- Visiting Researcher for the CORPI Project
Category: Research
CCHS - CSIC (Center for Human and Social Sciences-Council for Scientific Research) in Madrid, 2017 - Information Literacy Faculty Development Grant
Category: Teaching
Standish Library, Siena College, 2016 - Information Literacy Faculty Development Grant
Category: Teaching
Standish Library, Siena College, 2015 - Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2015 - Summer Fellowship for Curriculum Diversification
Category: Teaching
DAC, Siena College, 2014 - Service Learning Grant
Category: Teaching
ACE, Siena College, 2013 - Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2013 - Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
Category: Research
COTFD, Siena College, 2012 - Summer Institute, 'Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean'
Category: Research
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), 2012
Books & Book Chapters
- Song and Social Change in Latin America
Lexington Books
2013
Presentations
- Challenging the Empire: Theatrical Representations of Minority Communities in a Spanish 16th Century Piece
2023
Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico - Christian and Muslim Female Converts in Early Modern Spanish Literature
2023
Arabic Poetry Cairo Genizah (APCG) Research Project Conference, Dublin, Republic of Ireland - Jewelry and Precious Stones: The Resignification of Female Luxurious Accessories in Early Modern Spain
2023
The Migration of Objects between Islam and Christianity in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean: New Uses, New Meanings, Sarajevo, Bosnia - La blancura de la mano y las ajorcas: protagonistas musulmanas en la literatura de la premodernidad española
2023
Symposium in Early Modern Hispanic Studies, Syracuse, New York - La inversión de los ritos cristianos en la poesía morisca: un análisis de los elementos escatológicos en los romances de Juan Alonso Aragonés
2023
Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Chicago, Illinois - Soliloquios, travestismo, una cabeza artificial y una representación teatral morisca: el caso de la 'Comedia pastoral de Torcato'
2022
Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Teaching Transatlantic Connections among Spanish-Speaking Countries
2022
LELACS (Lake Erie Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Saratoga Springs, New York - Spanish Muslims in Early Modern Iberia: The Construction of an Image through Spanish Christian Chronicles
2021
Renaissance Society of America, Virtual, Virtual - La inversión de los roles de género en una pieza del siglo XVI: el caso de la Comedia pastoril de Torcato
2020
AHCT (The Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre), Virtual, Virtual - La escritura religiosa en el exilio norteafricano de los moriscos españoles
2019
XX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Jerusalem, Israel - La musa, la pluma y Orfeo: un poeta morisco en el exilio norteafricano
2019
Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Irvine, California - Moriscos en el exilio y polémica anticristiana: El caso de Ibrahim Taybili y Muhammad Alguazir
2019
Memory and Polemics: A Symposium on Moriscos, Syracuse, New York - The Female Other: Moriscas and Muslim Women in Early Modern Spain.
2019
Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada-Ontario - Apuntes para un estudio de las influencias literarias españolas en el morisco Ibrahim Taybili y su poema anti-cristiano
2017
XVIIIè Congrès International d'Études Morisques, Tunis, Tunisia - Iberian and Transatlantic Subjects in Early Modern Spain: The Case of Lope de Vega's El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón
2017
Spaces of Confrontation: 3rd International Conference in Transatlantic Studies, Boston, Massachusetts - Al-Andalus in the Eyes of a 16th Century Spanish Crypto-Muslim
2016
American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Poetry and Religious Polemics: Spanish Christian Influences on a Morisco Author in Exile
2016
Middle East Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts - The Conquered Subject in Lope de Vega's La famosa comedia del Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón
2016
Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Bruges, Belgium - The Representation of the Defeated Moriscos through the Portrayal of El Abencerraje's Abindarráez
2015
Middle East Studies Association, Denver, Colorado - Was Mediterranean Politics Determined by Religion?
2015
MEH/Med-Middle Eastern History/Mediterranean, Denver, Colorado - Épica y polémica religiosa en la Expulsión de los moros de España de Gaspar de Aguilar
2015
Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Amherst, Massachusetts - Author's Transgressions and Subversive Characters in Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman
2014
Renaissance Society of America, New York, New York - Connections between Old and New Christians: The Influence of Spanish Literary Works on Morisco Writers
2014
Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana - La polémica anti-islámica tras la expulsión de los moriscos de España
2014
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky - Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims in Sixteenth Century Spain: Towards the Construction of an Image
2013
Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, California - La poesía al servicio de la polémica religiosa y la auto-legitimación de un autor morisco desde su exilio norteafricano
2013
Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Charlotte, Virginia - Expulsados: el problema de la identidad morisca a la luz de la 'Contradicción de los catorce artículos de la fe cristiana' de Ibrahim Taybili
2012
NEMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association), Rochester, New York - La caída de Granada y la pérdida del Islam: el testimonio morisco del Mancebo de Arévalo
2012
Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio - Realidad vs ficción: contradicciones en la representación de los hispano-musulmanes en la literatura del siglo XVI
2012
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky