Melissa Figueroa
Department of Modern Languages
275 Gordy Hall
Athens, OH 45701
Phone: (740) 593-2767 Email: figuerom@ohio.edu
Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Cornell University, 2013
M.A. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Cornell University, 2010
M.A. Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 2006
B.A. Hispanic Studies with Minor in Foreign Languages, University of Puerto Rico, 2002
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Ohio University, 2015-present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Binghamton University, 2014-2015
Teaching Associate (Lecturer), Cornell University, 2013-2014
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Passing as Morisco: Concealment and Slander in Mira de Amescua’s El mártir de Madrid.” (Forthcoming in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.)
“Staging Muhammad: A Subversion of the Hagiographic Genre in Vida y muerte del falso Profeta Mahoma.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97.8 (2020): 807-21.
“Un romance gallardo: notas sobre la maurofilia literaria en Los moriscos de Hornachos.” [“A Gallant Ballad: Notes on the Maurophilic Literature in Los moriscos de Hornachos"]
MLN 135.2 (2020): 409-23.
“Staging the Unspeakable: Slavery, Torture, and the Expulsion of Moriscos in El Hamete de Toledo.” ehumanista/ Conversos 41 (2019): 262-74.
“Theater Reminiscences: The Politics of Memory after the Expulsion of the Moriscos.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3 (2018): 281-96.
“La expulsión de los moriscos en El gran Patriarca don Juan de Ribera de Gaspar Aguilar: un festejo a medias.” [“The Expulsion of Moriscos in Gaspar Aguilar’s The Great Patriarch
don Juan de Ribera: A Half-Hearted Celebration.”] Bulletin of the Comediantes 66.2 (2014): 27-44.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“Dangerous Performance: Francisco de Arellano’s Auto de la destruyción de Troya.” Living the Comedia. Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, edited by Esther Fernández, and J. Yuri
Porras. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2020. 65-76.
“Staging Strikes and the Morisco Problem in Valencia.” Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater, edited by Tania de Miguel Magro, Mina García-Soormally, Erin Cowling, and
Glenda Nieto-Cuebas. (Forthcoming)
“Courting the Female Body: Towards a Poetics of the Conquest in Lope de Vega’s El NuevoMundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón [The New World Discovered by Christopher
Columbus].” Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater , edited by Gladys Robalino. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014. 9-28.
Manuscripts in Progress
“Breaking the Fourth Wall in Captivity Plays: Cervantes’ Use of Theatrical Acts in Algiers” [Journal Article; Co-authored with Dr. Mina García Soormally; 7,997 words written]
“Los moriscos y el mundo mediterráneo en “Aventurarse perdiendo” de María de Zayas [Moriscos and the Mediterranean World in María de Zayas’s “Aventurarse perdiendo”] [Journal Article; 2, 325 words written]
Domestic Enemies: Staging Moriscos in Early Modern Spanish Theater [Monograph; 25, 769 words written]
Scholarly Reviews and Notes
Book Review, Wolfram Nitsch, El teatro barroco como campo de juego: Estudios sobre Lope de Vega, translated by Elvira Gómez Hernández. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2018.
Renaissance Quarterly 73.1 (2020): 351-52.
Book Review, Félix Lope de Vega Carpio’s El príncipe inocente, ed. Tania de Miguel Magro y Erin Cowling, Valladolid, Editorial Agilice Digital, 2018, 129 pp.” Hipogrifo: Revista de
literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro 7.2 (2019): 127-29.
Theater Review, El valiente negro en Flandes, de Andrés Claramonte, Coproducción de Iria Producciones, De Amarillo Producciones y Acafrao Producciones con la
colaboración de Fundación Siglo de Oro. Comedia Performance 16.1 (2019): 112-14.
Book Review, “Arboretum, Jotacé López” Latin American Literature Today 1. 4 (2017)
Book Review, El poeta morisco. De Rojas Zorrilla al autor secreto de una comedia sobre Mahoma [The Morisco Poet. From Rojas Zorrilla to the Secret Author of a Play about
Muhammad], by Rhida Mami. Gestos. Revista de teoría y práctica del teatro hispánico 55 (2013): 196-97.
Note, “Spain’s Marginality in Early Modern Studies.” PMLA 26.3 (2011): 815-16.
Creative Writing
Peer-Reviewed Books
Nota de duelo [Mourning Note]. New York: Artepoética Press, 2018.
Short Stories in Magazines and Newspapers
“Manivela.” [“Handle.”] Letras Salvajes 20 (2016): 92-97.
“La última dedicatoria.” [“The Last Dedication.”] El Nuevo Día. 25 de noviembre de 2007. 28- 29. Short-story published with honorable mention in Certamen de
Cuento de El Nuevo Día.
Lectures and Presentations
Professional Conferences and Presentations
“Distant Texts/ Close Readings: Using Translation as a Tool for Literary Analysis.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, November 12, 2019.
“‘No era ese moro de ahora’: notas sobre un romance en Los moriscos de Hornachos.” [“That Was not the Moor from Nowdays:’ Notes on a Ballad in Los moriscos de
Hornachos.”] 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Irvine, California, October 17-19, 2019.
“On Black Slaves: Moorishness, Blackness, and the Second Rebellion of the Alpujarras.” Symposium of the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, Association of Hispanic
Classical Theater, El Paso, Texas, April 11-13, 2019.
“Fear and Magic in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Quien mal anda en mal acaba.” Memory and Polemics: A Symposium on Moriscos, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, March
2, 2019.
“First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Early Modern Adaptations of El Hamete de Toledo.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, January 3-6, 2019.
“Passing for Morisco: Trigueros’ Tricks in Mira de Amescua’s El mártir de Madrid.” CongresoInternacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, Granada, Spain, June 27-29, 2018.
“Staging Strikes and the Morisco Problem in Valencia.” Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, April 11-13, 2018.
“Troubling Contradictions: Mira de Amescua and the Moriscos.” 38th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio,
April, 6-7, 2018.
"Una comedia sobre Mahoma: subversión del género hagiográfico" [“A Play about Muhammad: Subversion of the Hagiographic Genre” ] Asociación Internacional de
Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO), Mexico City, Mexico, October 23-27, 2017.
“Theater Reminiscences: The Politics of Memory after the Expulsion of the Moriscos.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Boston, Massachusetts, November 17-20, 2016.
“Humor and Criticism: Moriscos and Amerindians in Gaspar Aguilar’s Theater.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Lexington, Kentucky, April 14-16, 2016.
“Stereotypes in the Classroom: Dealing with the ‘Other’ in the Spanish Comedia.” Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas,
March 31-April 2, 2016.
“Clandestine Performances: The Hidden Stratagems of Moriscos on Stage.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference (RSA). Boston, Massachusetts,
March 31-April 2, 2016.
“Theater and Islam in Early Modern Spain: The Curious Case of the Moriscos.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (ACLA). Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 17-20, 2016.
“Una propuesta indecente: sobre santos hortelanos, alusiones gastronómicas y moriscos expulsados en San Diego de Alcalá.” [“An Indecent Proposal: About Gardener Saints,
Gastronomic Allusions and the Expelled Moriscos in Lope de Vega’s Saint Diego of Alcala.”] Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso,
Texas, March 19-21, 2015.
“‘This is a Different World’: On Antiquity in Early Modern Spanish Dramas about America.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 16-19,
2014.
“Traducir la comedia: el caso de Amar después de la muerte de Pedro Calderón de la Barca.” [Translating the Spanish Comedia: The Case of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Love After
Death.”] Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, February 26-March 2, 2014.
“Bibliomancy as Interpretation: Deciphering Lope de Vega’s El Hamete de Toledo.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 24-27, 2013.
“Juan de Ribera y la expulsión de los moriscos: una representación imposible.” [“Juan de Ribera and the Expulsion of the Moriscos: An Impossible Representation.”] Symposium of
the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, March 7-9, 2013.
“Efectos catárticos de la magia: miedo morisco en Quien mal anda en mal acaba de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.” [“The Cathartic Effects of Magic: Fear of Moriscos in Juan Ruiz de
Alarcón’s He Who Follows an Evil Way Ends Badly.”] III Coloquio Internacional Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. Universidad Autónoma Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, March 7-8, 2013.
“From a Religious Opponent to a Legal Enemy: A Paradigm Shift of the ‘Morisco’ in Los moriscos de Hornachos.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention,
Boston, Massachusetts, January 3-6, 2013.
“West Side Story”: the Seduction of America in Lope de Vega’s El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón Conference of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
Nashville, Tennessee, November 1-4, 2012.
“Placeres prohibidos: el erotismo en La gran sultana de Miguel de Cervantes.” [“Forbidden Pleasures: Eroticism in Miguel de Cervantes’ The Great Sultana.”] 43rd Annual
Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Rochester, New York, March 15-18, 2012.
“Conquistas problemáticas: representación femenina en El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón de Lope de Vega.” [“Problematic Conquests: Female Representation in
Lope de Vega’s The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus.”] Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, March 8-12,
2012.
“The Dangerous Theater of the Moriscos: Auto de la destruyción de Troya (1575).” Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, March 3-5,
2011.
“Among Lettuce and Radishes: Religious and Sexual Difference in Lope de Vega’s San Diego de Alcalá.” Nineteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary
Symposium-‘Food for Thought, For Writing, and For Art.’ University of Miami, Florida, February 18-19, 2011.
“Los melindres de Belisa.” Conference of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 11-15, 2009.
“Entre el deseo y la muerte: Eros y Tánatos en tres sonetos de Quevedo.” [“Between Desire and Death: Eros and Thanatos in Three Sonnets by Quevedo.”] VIII Biennial
Conference Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Universidad of Córdoba, Spain, October 18–20, 2007.
“Manuel de Zequeira ante el cronista Oviedo: una ruptura con la afasia fundacional.” [“Manuel de Zequeira and the chronicler Oviedo: A Rupture with Foundational Aphasia.”]
Tercer Congreso Internacional Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, Las Américas y Puerto Rico en homenaje a Luis Rafael Sánchez. University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, November 16-18, 2006.
Creative Writing Readings
“Réquiem de otoño” [“Fall Requiem”] “Dos puertorriqueños conversan,” Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, September 4, 2019.
“Nota de duelo: la literatura como reflexión cultural.” [Mourning Note: Literature as Cultural Reflection”], Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, March 7, 2019.
“Nota de Duelo” [Mourning Note] in Noche de Arte y Literatura, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, February 8, 2019.
“Three Short Stories” Literary Encounter in Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Asociaciónde Escritores Dominicanos en los Estados Unidos (ASEDEU), Bronx, New York,
September 29, 2018.
“Manivela” [“Handle”] 22nd Annual Spring Spanish Colloquium, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, February 9, 2018.
“Nota de duelo: tradiciones desde la monstruosidad” [“Mourning Note: Traditions from the Monstrosity”], Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 20-21,
2017.
Lectures and Invited Talks
“Una prueba de amor” [“A Test of Love”]. Invited by Dr. Daniel Torres. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio, November 6th, 2017. (Creative Writing Reading for Span 5517)
“Yearning for Spain: Theater Reminiscences of Moriscos in North Africa.” African Studies Program. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio, March 28th, 2018. (Research Presentation)
“Spanish Golden Age Theater: From Fuenteovejuna to Ciudad Juárez.” Invited by Dr. Matthew Cornish, College of Fine Arts. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio, November 14th,
2016. (Guest Lecture for THAR 2710)
“New Faculty Orientation Panel.” Ohio University. Athens, Ohio, August, 16th, 2016. (Panel)
Media Presentations and Readings
“Five Short Stories” [Read by Radio Host Rocio Uchofen] Híbrido Literario, Maker Park Radio, Staten Island, New York, March 18, 2019.
Radio Show Interview, Qué suba el telón, Radio Victoria 840 AM, Humacao, Puerto Rico, February 6, 2019.
Radio Show Interview, Ponte al día, Radio Victoria 840 AM, Humacao, Puerto Rico, February 5, 2019.
TEACHING
Ohio University, Assistant Professor of Spanish (By academic year)
2020-2021 Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition
Span 5530: Literature of Golden Age Spain
2019-2020 Span 5900: Orientalism in Spain
Span 4555: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition
Span 2971T: Miguel de Cervantes’ Exemplary novels
Thar 2970T: Women in Early Modern Spanish Theater
2018-2019 Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition (2 sections)
Span 4555: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
2017-2018 Span 5558: Don Quijote de la Mancha (Graduate)
Span 3348: Spanish Civilization and Culture
Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition
Span 4558: Don Quijote de la Mancha (Undergraduate)
2016-2017 Span 6902: Stereotypes in the Spanish Comedia (Graduate Seminar)
Span 3348: Spanish Civilization and Culture (2 sections)
Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition
2015-2016 Span 4900: Criminality in Early Modern Spanish Theater
Span 2120: Intermediate Spanish II (2 sections)
Span 3110: Advanced Conversation and Composition
Binghamton University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
2014-2015 Span 581G: Picaresque in Spanish Literature (Graduate Course)
Span 581D: Staging the Other (Graduate Course)
Span 360: Hispanic Literature: Middle Ages-17th Century
Span 351: Advanced Syntax and Composition: Stylistics
Span 251: Conversation, Composition, and Grammar
Cornell University, Teaching Associate (Lecturer)
2014-2013 Span 3111: Advanced Spanish Writing Workshop
Span 2090: Spanish Intermediate Composition and Conversation I
Cornell University, Graduate Teaching Assistant and Associate (Lecturer)
2007-2013 Span 3111: Advanced Spanish Writing Workshop
Span 2170: Early Hispanic Modernities
Span 2090: Spanish Intermediate Composition and Conversation I
Span 1230: Intermediate Spanish (Ithaca Campus, Summer in Madrid)
Span 1220: Elementary Spanish II
Span 1210: Elementary Spanish I
Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations [Cornell University] (2012)
Spanish: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels
University of Puerto Rico, Carolina Campus (2005-2006)
Upward Bound Program:Spanish: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT
Ohio University; Department of Modern Languages
Majors and Minors Committee (2018-2020)
Scholarship and Awards Committee (2018-2020)
Curriculum Committee (2018-2020)
Faculty Leave Fellowship Committee (2016-2018; 2019-2020)
Internship Committee (2015-2019)
Graduate Committee (2016-2018)
Library Committee (2015-2018)
“Toma de Gordy” [Ad-hoc Committee] (2016-2017)
Seville Exchange Program (2016-2017)
Creative Writing Certificate Committee (2015-2016)
Search Committee for Spanish GI position (2015-2016)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Council for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (2019-2022)
Fulbright Interview Committee, Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (2017, 2018, 2019)
OHIO First Scholars Mentoring Program (2016-2017)
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Faculty Pageant by Alpha Phi Omega (Fundraiser for Camp Quality of Ohio: Kids with Cancer), Athens, Ohio, February 21, 2018.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Article Reviews for Academic Journals
ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, 2020 (Reviewer)
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 2020.(Reviewer)
Hispanic Studies Review, 2018. (Reviewer)
Centro Journal, 2016. (Reviewer)
Participation at Professional Associations
Board Membership
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2020-2022 (Elected Board Member)
Committees
Graduate Students’ Submission Committee, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2018, 2019. (Committee Member)
Conferences and Symposia Co-Organized
Almagro Symposium, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2019-2020. (Symposium Co-Organizer) “Memory and Polemics: A Symposium on Moriscos,” Syracuse, New York,
United States, March 2, 2019. (Symposium Co-Organizer)
Panels Organized and Workshops
“Translating Early Modern Spanish Literature: Pedagogy, Editing, and Literary Analysis.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, November 12, 2019. (Panel Organizer)
“El arte del cuento corto” [“The Art of the Short Story”] Ohio Wesleyan University,Delaware, Ohio, United States, March 7, 2019. (Workshop Facilitator)
“Adaptation as Transaction in Early Modern Spanish Theater.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, January 3-6, 2019.
(Selected by the MLA’s President, Anne Ruggles Gere, to be included in the presidential theme). (Panel Co-Organizer)
“Desplazamientos trasatlánticos: moriscos y amerindios en la mira.” [“Transatlantic Displacements: Moriscos and Amerindians at Sight.”] Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference (KFLC). Lexington, Kentucky, April 2016. (Panel Co-Organizer)
Panels Chaired
“Gender and Women Dramaturgs” at Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Virtual Symposium, July 15-17, 2020 (Panel Chair)
“Cervantes en el escenario” [Cervantes on the Stage] at Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Virtual Symposium, July 15-17, 2020 (Panel Chair)
“Social Justice in Adaptation and Performance” at the Symposium of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). El Paso, Texas, April 11-13, 2018. (Panel Chair)
“Museums, Place, and Memory” at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts, November 17-20, 2016. (Panel Chair)
“Re-Inventing the Language Lab: Modern Approaches to L2 Instruction with Technology as theFocus for Strengthening and Listening Speaking and Listening Skills.”
Binghamton University’s 2nd Annual Conference on Foreign Language Teaching, Binghamton University, New York, September 20-21, 2014. (Panel Moderator)
Working Session at theConference of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Baltimore, Maryland, November 20-23, 2014. (Panel Moderator)
Working Session at theConference of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Dallas, Texas, November 7-10, 2013. (Panel Moderator)
“Experienced TA Panel”, Cornell University, Fall 2013 & Fall 2011. (Panelist)
“(Non) Fiction Today”, Latin American/Latino Voices for the New Century. Cornell University, Fall 2011. (Panel Moderator)
Grant Reviews
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 2017-2018, 2020. (Grant Reviewer)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Pen International, Puerto Rican Centre, Honorable Mention to Nota de duelo [Mourning Note], 2020 (Awarded to books published in 2018 under the category of short stories)
Matthew Stroud Comedia Article Prize, Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, 2019 (Awarded to an outstanding article published during the previous three years by
a member of the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater; see “Theater Reminiscences”)
Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Performance as a Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2008-2009.
FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDING
Ohio University Grants and Funding
Funds to bring the theater company from Mexico EFE TRES to perform at Ohio University: College of Arts and Sciences, College of Fine Arts (Arts for Ohio Fund), Department
of Modern Languages, Latin American Studies, Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Scripps College for Diversity Committee, and Sigma Delta Pi.
Humanities Research Fund, “Insurrection and Mockery in Early Modern Spain Theater,” College of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2018, Ohio University.
Research Apprenticeship Program, “Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan. Annotated Student Edition of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Quien mal anda en mal acaba (Unpublished), Fall 2016, Ohio University.
Cornell University Grants and Funding
Cornell Provost’s Diversity Fellowship, Spring 2012.
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, Summer 2011.
Michele Sicca or Manon Einaudi Pre- Dissertation Research Grant, Spring 2010.
Tinker Graduate Student Field Research Grant, Spring 2010. (Declined)
Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013.
Cornell University Sage Fellowship, 2006-2007 & 2010-2011.
Hesse Graduate Student Travel Grant, Spring 2011.
Future Faculty Teaching Certificate Fellowship, 2010-2011.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Workshops Attended (Participant)
Workshop, “National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Application Writing Workshop,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Deborah Hurtt, Athens, Ohio, (October, 2020)
Workshop, “Online and Hybrid Course Design and Delivery,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Matthew Barrile, Department of Modern Languages, Athens, Ohio, (June, 2020)
Workshop, “Methods for Engagement and Maintaining Presence,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Larry Hess, Athens, Ohio. (May 2020)
Workshop, “Blackboard Layout Basics,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Kyle Rosenberger, Athens, Ohio. (May 2020)
Workshop, “Best Practices for Communication in Online Environments,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Jody Monk and Kyle Rosenberger, Athens, Ohio. (May 2020)
Workshop, “Creating and Using Instructional Videos, Screencasts, and Podcasts to Increase Instructor Presence, Increase Student Interaction, and Expedite Feedback
in Online Courses,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Dr. Jesse Strycker, Athens, Ohio. (May, 2020)
Workshop, “Online Basics Crash Course,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Matthew Barrile, Athens, Ohio. (March 2020).
Workshop, “Authentic Resources and Literacy: A Symbiotic Relationship,” Facilitated by Kathleen Shelton, Ohio Valley Foreign Language Alliance, Athens, Ohio. (November 2019).
Workshop, “Student Engagement and Retention How Do We Grab Them and Keep Them from Running Away?,” Vista Higher Learning, Facilitated by Bobby Hobgood, Athens, Ohio. (March 2019).
Workshop, “Fundraising 101: How to Raise Money for Your Programs and Events,” Modern Language Association, Facilitated by Donald Hall and Julia Lipton, Chicago, Illinois.
(January 2019).
Workshop, “Summer Institute for Diversity Education,” Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Ohio University, Facilitated by Mark Orbe, Athens, Ohio. (May 2018).
Workshop, “Writing Learning Outcomes That Align to Your Big Ideas,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Dr. William F. Condee, Dr. Raymond Frost, and Dr. Lynn M. Harter,
Athens, Ohio. (May 2018).
Workshop, “How to Chair a Committee,” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Facilitated by Dr. Laura Vidler, El Paso, Texas. (April 2018).
Workshop, “Plagiarism. Helping Students to Avoid Plagiarism and Checking Up on Them,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Yavanna Brownlee, Athens, Ohio. (October 2017).
Workshop, “My Ohio Success Network Training,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Jenny Klein, Athens, Ohio. (September 2017).
Workshop, “Title IX and Sexual Misconduct: Understanding Our Shared Responsibility to Build A Culture of Respect,” Ohio University, Facilitated by Sara L. Trower, Athens, Ohio.
(September 2017).
Webinar, “Writing an Academic Book Proposal,” Academic Coaching and Writing, Facilitated by Dr.Amy Benson Brown. (May 2017).
Webinar, “Publishing Your Dissertation Research, Academic Coaching and Writing,” Facilitated by Dr. Amy Benson Brown. (April 2017).
Workshop, “ACTFL Writing Proficiency Guidelines Familiarization, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages,” Facilitated by Dr. Karen E. Breiner-Sanders, Athens,
Ohio. (April 2017).
Webinar, “Essentials of Proposal Writing,” Grant Training Center, Facilitated by Andrey Strakhov, Arlington, VA. (February 2017).
Faculty Discussion, “Reflective Teaching Practice Club (RPC).” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (Spring, 2017)
Workshop, “Proposal Writing and Research Design: How to Fund Your Ideas.” Middle East Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts. (November, 2016).
Workshop, “Increasing Your Grants Intelligence.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (November, 2016).
Workshop, “Managing Today’s Global Classroom: Engaging Diverse Populations.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (November, 2016).
Workshop, “What Can You Do With the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statement?” Ohio Valley Foreign Language Alliance, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (October, 2016).
Symposium, “Reimagining the Spanish Comedia in the Transmedia Age.” Ohio Wesleyan University and Denison University. Delaware and Granville, Ohio, September
23-24, 2016.
Workshop, “Promotion/tenure dossier overview; Developing/Fine-tuning Your Teaching Statement.” Facilitated by Dr. Laurie Hatch. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (May,
2016).
Workshop, “Documenting your teaching effectiveness.” Facilitated by Dr. Laurie Hatch. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (May, 2016).
Workshop, “Engaging, Assessing, and Collaborating With VoiceThread. A Faculty Showcase Event.” Facilitated by Aaron Wright, Brittany Peterson, and Heather Lawrence,
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (November, 2015).
Workshop, “DARS Workshop.” Ohio University, Facilitated by Caryn Asleson, Athens, Ohio. (October, 2015).
Workshop, “Integrating Technology to Assess for Student Proficiency.” Ohio Valley Foreign Language Alliance, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (October, 2015).
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography at The Huntington Library. (Summer, 2009).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH)
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Member (SCSC)
Northeast Modern Language Association, Member. (NEMLA)
Asociación Intern. de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO)
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
LANGUAGES
Spanish—Native
English—Fluent
French, German, Latin, and Arabic—Reading knowledge