Información del profesor

Campos de interés

La literatura colonial con énfasis en la Nueva España
El teatro y drama hispanoamericano
El teatro y drama del Siglo de Oro con concentración en la comedia
La teoría dramática

Educación

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000)
MA University of New Mexico-Albuquerque (1994)
BA University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1992)
Título de El Centro Cultural Del Sur en Xochimilco, México D.F. (1989)

Publicaciones

Libros:

Mexican Theater and Drama From the Conquest Through the Seventeenth Century.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2007.

Censorship and the género chico Dramas of Sixteenth-Century New Spain.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2002.

Artículos:

 “Orality, Literacy, and the Preservation of History through Memory in the Mayan Dance Drama Rabinal Achí.”  Baylor Journal of Theater & Performance 4.2 (2007): 47-56.

 “History and Memory in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Theater: The Battle between Christianity and Native Popular Culture.”  2006 Conference Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2006): 414-28.

“Identity through Literature of the Gay Chicano.”  Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, Office of Latino-Latin American Studies of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska at Omaha (2005).

“El chicano gay, su identidad y su literatura."  Occasional Paper Series, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Dec. 2002).

"El 'Otro' de Jacques Lacán en Como agua para chocolate de Laura Esquivel."  Literal 19 (1994): 33-36.

Trabajos presentados

 “The Sign of the ‘Other’ as Portrayed in the Latino Experience” at the 16^th Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Baton Rouge, LA (February 11-16, 2008)

  “Grammar and Cultural Activities for the Communicative Spanish Classroom” in collaboration with Renée Craig-Odders, Associate Professor (UW-Stevens Point) at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (November 2, 2007)

 “Myth and Legend in the Conquered Indigenous Voice” at the annual conference of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists held at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI (October 12-13, 2007)

 “Theater, Semiotics, and Colonial Mexico” at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point L&S Humanities Forum (October 10, 2007)

 “Tenochtitlán después de la conquista: el teatro de conversión, ¿quién convirtió a quién?” at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City (November 30, 2006)

“The Topsy-Turvy World of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: A Conquered Conqueror” at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Open House (April 23, 2006)

“Teachable Moments in Oaxaca, Mexico” at the Tenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Teaching Conference (January 19, 2006)

“History and Memory in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Theater: The Battle between Christianity and Native Popular Culture” at the Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI (January 10-14, 2006).

“La herencia de Alejandro von Humboldt en la América Latina actual” at the annual conference of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists held at Marian College, Fond du Lac, WI (October 6-8, 2005).

Translations of captions and titles for the artwork exhibited in “Spanish Colonial Religious Art 1650-1950: Work from a Midwest Collection” at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (March 13, 2005).

“El teatro mexicano colonial de Eusebio Vela y los aparatos del estado althusserianos” at the Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium sponsored by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater in conjunction with the Chamizal Theater Festival, El Paso, TX (March 3-5, 2005).

“Literary Identity of Chicano Gays” at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Minneapolis (November 11, 2002).

“La minoría gay: cruzando fronteras en la literatura de los chicanos homosexuales" at the Midwest Conference on Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (April 19, 2002).

“Historical Preservation Versus Cultural Change in Pre-Hispanic Mayan Theater” at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis, MO (March 7, 2002).

“Ritmos latinos: Music and Cultural Activities for the Spanish Classroom" in collaboration with Dr. Renée Craig-Odders at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (November 2, 2001).

"La homosexualidad: su intercambio cultural y manifestación literaria entre México y los Estados Unidos" at the Conference of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists, at Simpson College-Indianola, IA (October 11-13, 2001).

“Using Music to Teach Grammar in the Spanish Classroom” in collaboration with Dr. Renée Craig-Odders at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (November 4, 2000).

"La voz narrativa en la novela epistolar de aprendizaje, El principio del placer por José Emilio Pacheco" at The 2nd Annual University of New Mexico Conference on Ibero-American Culture, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque (February 11-12, 1993).