Biographical Sketch

My interests include poetry and poetics of Latin America, the French Caribbean and the United States; translation and its theories; postcolonial/transnational studies; questions of authenticity; and post-dictatorship writing.  As a senior at Cornell University I completed an undergraduate senior thesis entitled “C- in Spanish for Bilinguals.”  This work included both poetry composition and critical analysis.  Before beginning the CSLC program in Comparative Literature at USC, I worked as a research assistant in Anthropology and contributed to the graduate thesis “Perceptions of the ‘American Dream’ in Hispanic Unaccompanied Minors.”