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EDUCATION
2000-present The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MichiganDoctoral Candidate
in Comparative Literature, with a graduate certificate in Women Studies.
1998-2000
The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MichiganMasters of Arts Degree Conferred
in Comparative Literature, April 2000.
1992-1996 Amherst College Amherst, MassachusettsBachelors of Arts Conferred
in English and French, May 1996.
1995 Université de Paris IV Paris, FranceCourses in Art History,
French & Francophone Literature.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in French; Proficient in Spanish, Portuguese; Knowledge of Italian.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2000 Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan.
2000 Rackham Summer Institute Fellowship, University of Michigan.
2000 Center for African & African-American Studies Research Grant,
University of Michigan.
1999 Summer Language Training Grant, University of Michigan.
1998 Program Fellowship, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan.
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Scholarship and Lived Practice; Spirituality; Community; Popular Culture;
Identity Construction; 20th Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature
& Film; Diasporic Theory; Feminist Theory; Music in Popular Culture;
Postmodern Theory.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Coming of Age in Guinea Bissau"
--"Rethinking Globalization from an African Perspective" Conference,
Sponsored by the Berkeley-Stanford Joint Center for African Studies, April
2002.
"Arizona" [A Short Story]
--Comparative Literature Seventh Annual Intra-Student Faculty Forum, Sponsored
by the University of Michigan, February 2002.
--Writing by Degrees, The Annual National Graduate Creative Writing Conference,
Sponsored by Binghamton University, November 2001.
"Le Mot-Trou: Configuring the Womb as a Durassian Stage in Yeux Bleus,
Cheveux Noirs"
--Southwest/Texas American Public Culture Association 2001 Annual Conference.
"Re-membering and Dis-membering Black Masculinity: D'Angelo's Body
as (Web)Site of Mixed Messages"
-- Comparative Literature Sixth Annual Intra-Student Faculty Forum, Sponsored
by the University of Michigan, February 2001.
"Nihilism and Classism in the African-American Community: A Feminist
Perspective on the Problem"
--"Image of the 20th Century in Literature, Media, and Society"
Conference, Sponsored by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Social Imagery, March 2000.
"Staying Alive vs. Staying True in the Workplace: My Career(s) as
They Relate to my Feminist Practice"
--"Practicing in 3-D: Juggling Multiple Identities" Conference,
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University
of Michigan, March 2000.
"Meet Me at the Crossroads: Examining the Cuban Mulata Through a
Post-Modern, Mestiza Lens"
--Ninth Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literature, Language and Culture, February 2000.
--Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum, March 1999.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000-2001 English 125- Composition: Performing the Self, English Department,
The University of Michigan.
1996 World Literature, 12th Grade English, 9th Grade language and Literature,
DeSisto School.
REFERENCES
Supplied upon request.
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