This study takes migration as a trope and a cultural paradigm with which to consider Galicia's literary and cultural production in the works of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Manuel Rivas, Antón Risco, Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrin, and Suso de Toro. These authors in their works as well as other cultural manifestations, such as the Museo do Pobo Galego, music and various internet sites, constantly explore the role of emigration and return immigration processes in the construction of a displaced and deterritorialized Galician national identity.
Archival and museographic research at the Museo do Pobo Galego and the Concello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Summer, 2001).
Introduction to Paleography and archival research methodology with Prof. Carlos Cabrera, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (Summer, 2001).
Teaching Associate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University (2001-2003).
Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University (2000-2001).
Teaching Assistant, Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Texas at El Paso (1997-1999).
(Graduate)
Span 754: Issues/Questions of Gender/Genre: Sexuality and Writing in Spanish Literature since the XVIII century to the Present (Winter 2009).
Span 866: From the Center to the Periphery: Culture and Narrative of the Spanish Autonomies (Winter 2008).
Span 702: Introduction to Literary Analysis (Autumn 2006).
Span 761: Spanish Civil War through the Eyes and Experience of Catalans, Basques, and Galicians (among others) (Spring 2006).
(Undergraduate)
Span 567: Spanish Mosaic: Catalonia, Basque Country, Galicia and Andalusia (Spring & Autumn 2008).
Span 693: Independent Study: The Culture of Francoism in Literature and Film (Autumn 2006).
Span 650: Senior Seminar: Violence, Sexuality and Writing: Contemporary Spanish Female Writers (Winter 2008)
Span 552: Masterpieces of Modern Spanish Literature (Spring 2008 & Autumn 2006).
Span H680: Constructing the Nation: Memory, Writing and Identity in Contemporary Spain (Winter 2006).
Span 450: Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture in Spanish: Reading Texts (Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Winter 2007, Autumn 2008).
Span H450: Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture in Spanish: Reading Texts (Autumn 2004).
Span 613: Advance Composition for Spanish Native-Speakers (Winter 2006, 2007 & 2009).
(Undergraduate)
Span 450: The Fragmented Spanish Nation: Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and Andalusia (Spring 2004).
Span 302: Modern Hispanic Literature and Culture (Fall 2003).
Span 300: Reading in Spanish: Text and Contexts (Spring 2002).
Span 215: Reading and Writing Strategies in Spanish (Spring 2003).
(Undergraduate)
Span 201: Intermediate Spanish I (Summer 2003).
Span 212: Advanced Language Practice (Conversation) (Fall 2001).
Span 202: Intermediate Spanish II (Spring 2001).
Span 201: Intermediate Spanish I (Fall 2000).
“Popular Literary lieux de mémoire and Galician Identity in Manuel Rivas’s En salvaxe compaña” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 86.2 (2009): 93-108. (Special Issue).
“Amusement Parks, Bagpipes and Cemeteries: Fantastic Spaces of Galician Identity through Migration.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.2 (2006): 155-169. (Special Issue).
“Reorganizando las ideas: ejercicio de relectura y reescritura en ¡Fallaste corazón!, de Germán Dehesa,” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempoánea. 4. 9 (1999): 50-56.
“Gaitas, panderos y tambores: La nueva música gallega y una identidad glocalizada.” Eds. Ileana Rodriguez & Josebe Martínez. (Forthcoming).
Peer Reviewer, International Migration (Journal of the International Organization for Migration). (Autumn 2006).
“Museums and Mausoleums: Museographical Practices of Galician Identity.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April 18, 2009).
“Buttons and Animals: Fantastic lieux de mémoire in Manuel Rivas’ En salvaxe compaña” Coming out of the Nation: Beyond the National in Contemporary Galician Cultural Production, University of Liverpool, University of Bangor, Centre for Galician Studies in Wales (March 2008).
“Botones, animales y museos: sitios de memoria en la literatura y cultura gallegas” Spanish Literatures and Cultures Colloquium, The Ohio State University (November 2006).
“Second-class Discourses: (Dis)placed Immigrants in Cuentos de las dos orillas” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April 2006).
“Amusement Parks and Cemeteries: Fantastic Spaces of Galician Identity through Migration.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D. C. (December 2005).
“Space, Memory and Absence of Galician Emigration in Memorias dun emigrante.” 41st Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Convention, The University of Western Ontario (May 2005).
“Viaje al Hades: En busca de una identidad gallega en 'No vuelvas'.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April 2005).
“Sitios de memoria: perspectivas de una historia nacionalista en En salvaje compañía.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April 2004).
“IVAM: Between the Global and the Local, the Art Museum in the Construction of National Identities.” Symposium: “Artists: Travelers and Nomads in the Era of Globalization,” Department of Art History, Emory University (December 2001).
“Aproximación literaria a la ciudad de México: paradigma de la ciudad postmoderna.” Sexto Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso (March 2001).
“La practicalidad de la lengua: la virtud del vernáculo en El convivio.” Colloquium: “La reivindicación de la lengua vulgar,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University (December 2000).
“Algunos aspectos de la adaptación del texto dramático de El perro del hortelano.” Congreso de AITENSO (Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novo Hispano del Siglo de Oro), Universidad de Ciudad Juárez, México (March 1999).
“En construcción: nación, género e identidad,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (April 2004).
“La reivindicación de la lengua vulgar,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University (December 2000).
