Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Administrative Experience
Director and Principal Investigator of the McNair Scholars Program, University of
Wisconsin River Falls, 2015-present.
Assistant Director of the McNair Scholars Program, University of California Davis, 200913.
Education
Postdoctoral Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis,
2014-15.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California Davis, 2015.
Critical Theory Designated Emphasis.
Dissertation: Time of Death: Writing in the Wake of the Moving Image.
Co-chairs: Peggy Kamuf and Juliana Schiesari.
B.A., French, English, and Womens Studies (triple major cum laude), New Mexico State
University, 2006.
Universit Panthon-Sorbonne and Universit de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris,
France, 2003-2004.
Grant Initiatives
Grants Administered
Federal TRIO Grant, McNair Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin River Falls
(multi-year, continual renewal)
Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of California Davis:
Grant 1: To redesign Comparative Literature core curriculum, 2011.
Grant 2: To provide pedagogy workshops and outcomes assessment for incoming
Comparative Literature instructors, 2011.
Spencer and Teagle Foundation Grant for Visual Literacy and Outcomes Assessment,
Teaching Resource Center, 2009.
Federal TRIO Grant, McNair Scholars Program, University of California Davis (multiyear, continual renewal)
Grants Authored
University of WisconsinRiver Falls 2017-21 McNair Scholars Program Grant
(Submission: 2017).
Capacity Building Grant for U.S. Undergraduate Study Abroad for Underrepresented
present.
Member, Academic Affairs Directors Group, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, 2015present.
Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 2015-16.
Committee Member, Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis Education Committee, 2014.
Committee Member, Modern Language Association Committee on the Status of Graduate
Students in the Profession, 2014-16.
Co-Founder, Modern European Thought Research Cluster, University of California Davis
Humanities Institute, 2010-13.
Representative, Graduate Student Union, UC Davis, 2011-13.
Faculty-Graduate Liaison, UC Davis Comparative Literature Program, 2009-10.
Research Assistant, NMSU McNair Scholars Program, 2006.
Founder, NMSU Feminist Majority Foundation, 2004-06.
Founder, Feminists Reinventing Equality Everywhere, 2004-06.
Committee Member, NMSU Womens Studies Steering Committee, 2002-03.
Columnist, National Organization for Women, 1999-2001.
Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin River Falls Honors Program
HON 399, Honors Independent Study: On Terrorism. Spring 2016.
HON 190, Honors Seminar: From Global Engagement to Community Engagement.
Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016.
University of Wisconsin River Falls McNair Scholars Program
McNair Scholars Graduate Research Writing Seminar, Spring 2015, Summer 2015,
Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016.
University of California Davis, Department of French
FRE 2, Elementary French, Spring 2012, Winter 2012.
FRE 1, Elementary French, Fall 2011.
University of California Davis, Department of Comparative Literature
Associate Instructor and Course Designer:
COM 4: Major Books, 1945-Present:
On the Possibility of Perversion in Western Literature Spring 2011.
Re-membering Trauma in Contemporary Literature, Winter 2011.
Imaging Literature: From Mallarm to Digital Poetics, Spring 2010.
COM 3: Major Books, Late 18th to Mid-20th Century
Contingency in Contemporary World Literature, Summer 2010.
Literature and the Concept of Presence, Winter 2010.
The Lure of Antiquity in Contemporary Literature, Fall 2009.
COM 10: Master Authors
The Witness and the Watcher in Contemporary Literature, Spring 2009.
Sex and Revolt in 20th Century Poetry Winter 2009.
Modernist Intersections of Art and Literature, Fall 2008.
Teaching Assistant:
COM 7, Literature of Fantasy and the Supernatural, Winter 2008, Spring 2008.
COM 6, Myths and Legends, Fall 2007.
University of California Davis, McNair Scholars Program for Underrepresented Scholars
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Critical Interpretation and Comparative
Analysis, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Research and Grant Writing, Winter 2009,
Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Graduate-Level Writing, Fall 2008, Fall 2009,
Fall 2010, Fall 2011.
ENG 198, Senior Scholars Seminar: The Revision Process, Fall 2010, Fall 2011.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: GRE and Qualitative Skills, Summer Session I
2008, Summer Session I 2009, Summer Session I 2010, Summer Session I 2011,
Summer Session I 2011.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Literary Analysis, Summer Session II 2008,
Summer Session II 2009, Summer Session II 2010, Summer Session II 2011,
Summer Session II 2012.
University of California Davis, School of Law
King Hall Pre-Law Outreach Program: The History of the Essay from Montaigne to
the Courtroom, Summer 2010.
University of California Davis Extension Center
English as a Second Language, Introductory Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Intermediate Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Advanced Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Modern American Literature, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Early American Literature, Summer 2009.
Ministre de l'ducation Nationale, Andr Malraux Lyce t College, Paris, France
La littrature anglaise, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
La grammaire anglaise, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
Guest Lectures
Building your graduate school application: a comprehensive overview, SURRP/ICE Cube
Summer Research Series, University of Wisconsin River Falls, Summer 2015
The Anxiety of Writing, UC Davis Law School Outreach Program, Spring 2011.
Freuds Uncanny and the Supernatural, UC Davis, Spring 2009.
Circus Freaks: Historical Framework of Kafkas Hunger Artist, UC Davis, Winter 2009.
Fostering Classroom Diversity, NMSU, 2006.
Supervised Student Ph.D. Program Offers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dairy Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physical Therapy