Member of the English Department. Teaching four courses a term: Upper Year: Fall Term - Romance and Tragedy; Winter Term - Comedy and Satire; Spring Term - Shakespeare. Senior Electives: 'Passing' in Literature and Film; 'California Dreaming': Representations of California in Literature and Film (late 1800's - late 1930's) Winter term; (1940's - early 1980's) Spring term. House counselor and team member in a girl’s dorm. Serving on various committees: Chair of the Strategic Implementation… Show more Member of the English Department. Teaching four courses a term: Upper Year: Fall Term - Romance and Tragedy; Winter Term - Comedy and Satire; Spring Term - Shakespeare. Senior Electives: 'Passing' in Literature and Film; 'California Dreaming': Representations of California in Literature and Film (late 1800's - late 1930's) Winter term; (1940's - early 1980's) Spring term. House counselor and team member in a girl’s dorm. Serving on various committees: Chair of the Strategic Implementation Committee for Equity and Inclusion - Assessment/Evaluation; Faculty Advisory Committee; English Department Hiring Committee; Teaching Fellow Selection Committee; Admissions Reader; Mentor for Candidates in the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers of Color (IRT) program; Fencing coach (Spring); Brazilian Studies Group; Abbott grant advisor; MLK Workshop advisor; Community and Multicultural Development (CAMD) scholar's student advisor. Show less

Teaching four courses a term with a focus on post-colonial and multi-ethnic literature. Functioning as a faculty dorm resident and team member in a girl’s dorm, with 2 other faculty members and 44 girls. Also, serving as advisor to 11 girls in the dorm. Serving on various committees: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Committee; Diversity Committee; Publications Committee. Providing support for student extracurricular activities: Advisor to Pendulum-literary journal; the Afro-Latino Exonian Society… Show more Teaching four courses a term with a focus on post-colonial and multi-ethnic literature. Functioning as a faculty dorm resident and team member in a girl’s dorm, with 2 other faculty members and 44 girls. Also, serving as advisor to 11 girls in the dorm. Serving on various committees: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Committee; Diversity Committee; Publications Committee. Providing support for student extracurricular activities: Advisor to Pendulum-literary journal; the Afro-Latino Exonian Society (ALES) ; Transitions; and, coaching JV Girls Basketball. Show less

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. Doctoral dissertation: “Sacred Memories, Sacred Bodies: The Black Body as the ‘Place’ of Collective Memory in Popular Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African Literature and Film”. Areas of Concentration: Lusophone Studies, Sub-Saharian African Literature and Post-Colonial Theory, Third World Film Theory.Taught the following survey courses: Non-Western literature, “Colonialism, Cultural Identity… Show more Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. Doctoral dissertation: “Sacred Memories, Sacred Bodies: The Black Body as the ‘Place’ of Collective Memory in Popular Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African Literature and Film”. Areas of Concentration: Lusophone Studies, Sub-Saharian African Literature and Post-Colonial Theory, Third World Film Theory.Taught the following survey courses: Non-Western literature, “Colonialism, Cultural Identity and Narrative Perspectives,”; and also “Global Perspectives: Exploring Issues of Identity and Culture in Literature and Film.” Taught Freshman English Composition and Advanced Composition for three years in UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program for the Freshman Summer Program (FSP) and the Transfer Summer Program (TSP)—an intensive and rigorous six-week academic bridge program for historically underrepresented, low-income, and immigrant students, entering UCLA as either freshman or transfer students beginning their junior year.Taught the Humanities 2 series in the Comparative Literature Department for three years. Humanities courses satisfy both the University’s writing requirement for entering undergraduate (equivalent to English 3) and a general education requirement. These are lecture-based courses where a team of TA’s, under the guidance of a professor, balances the teaching of university writing with the study of literary and critical texts. Show less