Spanish

• Ph.D. Emory University. Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  Graduate Certificate. Emory University. Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
• M.A. Emory University. Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• B.A. Reed College. Department of Spanish

• Early modern women’s literary and cultural history in Spain and Latin America
• Comedia history and performance
• Early modern Spanish narrative
• Feminist theory and gender studies
• Convent literature and epistolarity
• History of women’s incarceration and hospitalization
• Early modern gardens and Environmental Justice

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Chronicling Women’s Containment in Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela’s History of Potosí” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 39 (2010): 279-296

“Inquisition and Epistolary Negotiation: Examining the Correspondence of Teresa de la Valle y la Cerda.” Letras Femeninas, Mujeres alborotadas: Early Modern and Colonial Women’s Cultural Production: A Festschrift for Electa Arenal 35.1 (2009): 293-309.

Monograph

Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (under contract, University of Toronto Press)

“Return to Eden: Monastic Women Writing Nature” Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer en España y las Americas. Portland, OR. October 2012.
 
“Marcela de San Félix and the Early Modern Garden” Renaissance Society of America. Washington, D.C. March 2012. (panel organizer)
 
“Women's Authorship and Reform in Magdalena de San Jerónimo's Razón y forma de lagalera y casa real (1608)" Modern Language Association. Los Angeles, CA. January 2011.
 
“Spectacle, Violence and Exemplarity in Luis Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera (1613)”  National Women’s Studies Association. Denver, CO. November 2010.
 
 “Spectacular Reformation: The Theatrics of Recogimiento in Early Modern Madrid.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
 
“Inquisition and Epistolary Negotiation: Examining the Correspondence of Teresa de la Valle y la Cerda.” Renaissance Society of America. Los Angeles, CA. March 2009.
 
“Visiones monstruosas de lo femenino.” Graduate Student Conference, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory U. Atlanta, GA. February 2009.
 
“La pícara y la política en el teatro de Ana Caro.” Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Agnes Scout C. Atlanta, GA. October 2008.
 
“Honor, Reputation and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Approach.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Portland, OR. March 2008.
 
“El poder de las telas arañas: El amor cortesano y ‘la limpieza’ en La Celestina.” El Arte de Amar, U de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. February 2007.
 
“Subject to Stage: Woman, Court and Metatheater in María de Zayas.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX. March 2006.