Graduate Programs

Research Interests

Iberian Medieval and Early Modern mystical literature; Iberian Medieval and Early Modern narrative and poetry; Traditions of translation: School of Translation of Alfonso X; Exile in Iberian literature; Literature of Alándalús; 17th century Spanish comedia: traditions of performance and playwriting; Sanskrit language; Indian mystical literature from the Vaishvana tradition; Comparative literature, Comparative religion; Cuban literature of the exile in the 19th and 20th century; Cuban contemporary theater, Creative Writing in Spanish.

Recent Publications/Activities

Conferences

• 2013 “Gustar a Dios.” Congreso internacional de literatura mística. Universidad Pontificia de Puerto Rico.
• 2012 “Figures, Comparisons and Resemblances: The Comparative Act of Mystical Writing.” American Comparative Literature Association. Annual Meeting. Brown Univeristy.
• 2011 “Y véante mis ojos.” Visión, perspectiva y movimiento en el Cántico espiritual de Juan de la Cruz’. Xth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Belfast University. North Ireland.
• 2010 “´Revela tu presencia.´ San Juan de la Cruz y la tradición devocional hindú.” Primer Congreso Ibero-Asiático de Hispanistas del Siglo de Oro. University of New Delhi, India.
• 2010 “El Cántico espiritual y el Rāsa Līlā. Deseo y comparación.” Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
• 2010 “The Libro de los ejemplos del Conde Lucanor and the Panchatantra. Traslatio, Power and Comparison.” Weltliteratur. Crossing Boundaries. Notre Dame University, Indiana.
• 2007 “El Cántico espiritual y el Bhāgavata Purāṇa.” VIII Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Universidad de Córdoba, Spain.

Publications - Books

• La Noche de San Juan y dos monólogos. Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 2002.

Publications - Articles

• “The Conde Lucanor and Panchatantra: Comparison, Power and Translation.” Literature Compass. Special Issue: The Global Middle Ages (forthcoming).
• “La morada espiritual del amor en separación en el Cántico espiritual y Rāsa Līlā.” Misticismo en las ínsulas extrañas. Ed. Luce López-Baralt. Madrid: Trotta. 2013.
• ‘Where did you hide?’ Locating the divine in the Cántico espiritual and Rāsa Līlā." Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 25 (2012) http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jhcs/vol25/iss1/8/
• “Mirando a Dios: El Cántico espiritual y Rāsa Līlā.” Hispanic horizons. Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi: India. 29 (2010) 57-67.
• “El Cántico espiritual y Rāsa Līlā: Comparación y revelación.” Revista San Juan de la Cruz. España: Córdoba. 44 (2009) 111-128.

Awards

• 2010-2011 American Dissertation Fellow. American Association of University Women. Washington, DC.

Book Chapters

• “Depiction or Erasure? Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Peruvian Film.” Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media. Ed. Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso. London: Routledge, 2011. 161-177.

Classes Regularly Taught

• SPA 101
• SPA 102
• SPA 202
• SPA 302
• SPA 330
• SPA 402