Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese

Specialties

• Post-colonial studies and Latin America
• colonial writing in Spanish America
• Chilean and Spanish American literary historiography
• baroque and postmodern semiotics in literature and public discourses
• modernity and the postmodern in Spanish poetry and Spanish American novel
• 17th century narratives and poetry
• Spanish-American literature
• vanguard poetry in Latin America

Publications

• Pablo Neruda (1904): A Centennial Greeting: Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry, 25 179-222, 2002.
• Los Pliegues del silencio El relato hispanoamericano en el fin del milenio. Ediciones Episteme, 1996.
• La modernidad en litigio. Alfar, 1989.
• Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. Nicholas Spadaccini, The University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
• Pablo Neruda Sociedad y poéticas. Ediciones Clásicas, 2005.

Research Activities

• Social representation in Neruda's work: Study of the co-relation of poetics and society, Spring 2003 - Spring 2004
• Memory and cognition in Isabel Allende: Pursuing issues of trauma, history, and hope, Fall 2004 - 2006
• The Ethics of Discovery: Columbus's Fictional Legacies, Oct 2005 - Dec 2007

Professional Activities

• Chair, Merit Raise Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota:
• Chair, Awards Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota:
• Graduate School Endowed Graduate Fellowship Programs, University of Minnesota:
• Member, Editorial Board & Advisory Board for Hispanic Issues, U.S.A.: 1989 -
• Member & "Socio Protector" for Alba de America, Literary Journal, Westminster, CA:
• Member, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana , Pittsburg:
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota: 1999 - 2001
• Member, Editorial Board, Eutopías, Valencia/Granada/País Vasco: 1988 -

Courses Taught

• SPAN 3104 - Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Spanish Texts
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: Nobel Prize Pablo Neruda
• SPAN 3221 - Latin American Colonial Discourses since 1492
• SPAN 5529 - National Affirmation and Transnationalization in Latin America
• SPAN 3222 - Latin American Discourses of Independence and National Constitution: 19th and early 20th centuries
• SPAN 8960 - Seminar on Hispanic Issues
• SPAN 5932 - National Disintegration in Latin America
• SPAN 5526 - Mercantilism and Free Trade in Latin America
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: Carlos Fuentes
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: Vicente Huidobro
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: César Vallejo
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: Jorge L. Borges
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: G.García Márquez
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: J. Cortázar
• SPAN 3950 - Figures in Spanish American Literature: Isabel Allende
• Seminar: Post-colonialism in Latin America
• Seminar: Post-modernism