My research interests include Mexican literature, especially the Mexican urban novel, orality and literacy studies, and postmodern theories as they apply to Latin America. I am currently working on intersections between urban studies and literary theory.

Courses Regularly Taught

• SPAN140 Intensive Elementary Spanish
• SPAN330 Conversation & Phonetics
• SPAN332 Spanish Reading & Grammar
• SPAN333 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
• SPAN390/456 La novela urbana de México
• SPAN456 Oralidad y escritura en la narrativa mexicana

Selected Publications

• “Wasting Away in the Allá otro: Juan Villoro’s Narratives of Tourism.” Hispanic Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 2024.
• "Espacios contradictorios y zonas de contacto en el Sanborns narrado". Ciberletras no. 46, 2022.
• Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City (co-editor and co-author with Glen David Kuecker). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
• La ciudad novelada a fines del siglo XX: Estructura, retórica, y figuración. Casa de Libros Abiertos de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, DF, 2012.