Staff

• “Rubber.” Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930. Eds. Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• “Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart’s Amazon Project.” Intimate Frontiers. A Literary Geography of the Amazon. Eds. Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martínez-Pinzón. Liverpool University Press, 2019: 227-247.
• “Guerra, biopolítica e inadaptación: los yerbales paraguayos de Rafael Barrett.” Latin American Literary Review. Vol 46. 92. (2019): 13-21.
• “García Márquez, lector de Walter Benjamin. Apuntes sobre la destrucción de Macondo.” Hispanic Research Journal. Vol 20. 3. (2019): 257-271.
• Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America. Exposing Paraguay. Eds. Federico Pous, A. Quin, and M. Viera. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
• “Poetry and Revisionism: Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay.” Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America. Exposing Paraguay. Eds. Federico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino Viera. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: 39-56. 
• “Trazos de agrimensura: soberanía, límites y rebelión en José Eustasio Rivera.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 42.1 (2017): 123-144.      
• “Beyond theDuality of the World: Guerrilla Experience and Political Ecology (Apropos Omar Cabezas’La montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verde).” Romance Notes. 57.1 (2017): 37-47. 
• “Escritura sobre ruinas: Augusto Roa Bastos, la trilogía paraguaya y el acontecimiento en Hijo de hombre.” A Contracorriente. A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. Vol 14. 1. (2016): 226-249.
• “Negación sin oposición: el dandi como soberano en De sobremesa.” Insomne pasado: lecturas críticas de Latinoamérica colonial. Eds. Karina Vázquez, Claudia García, and Grazyna Walczak. F&G Editores, 2016: 155-189.
• “Medina Reyes: impostura, sujeción, riesgo.” La invención del autor. Nuevas aproximaciones al estudio sociológico y discursivo de la figura autorial. Ed. Juan Zapata. Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2014: 256-268.

• Spanish and English, fluent
• Portuguese, intermediate-advanced
• French, reading knowledge

Japanese, Vietnamese, and Chinese.

Learning a foreign language not only gives you the opportunity to communicate with people from other countries--whether you are traveling abroad or here in the US, it also gives you a deeper understanding of people and cultures that are different from your own, broadening and enriching your interaction with the world around you. 

My first international experience was living in Cambodia for two years where I learned to speak Vietnamese. When I returned to college, I started studying Chinese and after two years of study I participated in a learning abroad program at Nankai University in Tianjin, China where I completed my third year of Chinese. After graduating from college, I lived and worked in Japan for five years on the JET program and learned Japanese while I lived there. Interspersed with these longer periods I traveled extensively in Central America, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Each of my international experiences have given me a different lens to view the world from. They have helped my career and have provided opportunities to interact with people from all over the world. Through my international experiences, I have struck up lifelong friendships that have enriched my life and made me a better person.  

Spanish, and French but I don't remember any of it.

Language ability has been invaluable for me in my career thus far. I spent 3 years after graduation working for a nonprofit that served low-income families including a program for migrant farmworkers and would not have been able to effectively create relationships of trust and serve these families without being able to speak the language. Past my job being able to create relationships with people of different walks of life has opened my mind and heart to new perspectives that I wouldn't have gained otherwise. I also think that language gives you a new perspective on the world and on your own native language. There are a lot of words in English now that I have a better understanding of because they're used more frequently in Spanish and I have that context to use now in my native language. The beauty of learning a language is also that you're able to understand other languages to a degree that are a part of the same language family and it becomes easier to learn new languages. 

I have traveled for leisure purposes to Italy, Mexico, and Peru. The bulk of my international experience took place while living in Peru as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Lima. This was an incredible experience that opened my eyes to other cultures, beliefs, and ended up shaping my decision to eventually change my major from music to Latin American Studies with a focus on nonprofit management. 

I took several years of Spanish in highschool but could hardly speak the language and it was this immersive experience and the kindness of the people in Lima that finally allowed me to learn Spanish and fall absolutely in love with it and the people there. 

Spanish, Italian, French, and Nahuatl.

I love being multi lingual.  I feel like language ability has opened up worlds of understanding that didn't exist for me before.  Half of my language learning has happened in adulthood and I wish I would have taken on more languages at a younger age when my brain was more adept to absorb them.

My international experience is travel based.  I've made several trips to Mexico, in particular, Mexico City, Baja California, Oaxaca, and Merida.  I've also visited Paris several times.  All of my extended family lives abroad in Guatemala and Italy and I've also visited and traveled in those countries.  

I'm grateful for the experiences I've had traveling abroad because it's a learning experience every time.

Canada, Mexico, and The Bahamas

Persian and Spanish

Armenian and/or Georgian

Learning another language helps you to become a better citizen of the world as well as your local communities. You’ll learn to see the world differently and understand more diverse groups. Learning another language also requires dedication and commitment which will help you in what ever fields you explore. Once you practice strategies for learning a language, you’ll likely see that quite a few subjects no longer seem so daunting. And of course, you’ll learn to laugh at yourself and realize you will make mistakes, but to keep going on.

I took a course about women in Iranian political history. It really changed the way I looked at how we write history, the sources we use, and the voices we center. I do not think any course prepared me quite as much for studying history at a graduate level.

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