An initiative to launch a Latino/a Studies program at KU, and currently organizing a national Latino/a Studies conference to be held at KU in Spring 2008

20th-century American literature, especially women's, U.S. Latino/a, and African-American fiction.

The Madwoman Can't Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive . Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Press, Fall 1998.

“Speaking for Others: Problems of Representation in the Novels of Julia Alvarez.” Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies of Australia and New Zealand (Spring 1999).

“'The Territory of the Storyteller': An Interview with Julia Alvarez.” Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies of Australia and New Zealand (Spring 1999).

U.S. Latina Writers, Slave Narrative and its Legacy , U.S. Latino/a Literature; and Cuban Diaspora in the U.S.

Ph.D. University of Kansas (1996)