TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 (fall) to date Assistant Professor of World Languages, SUNY Adirondack
Spanish 101, 102, 206
HRD 110
2018 (fall) to 2022 (spring) French and Spanish Instructor, SUNY Adirondack
French 101
Spanish 101, 102, 206
2017 Spanish Instructor, Capital Region Language Center (Spring, Summer & Fall)
2011 French Instructor, Rice University (Fall)
French 102 – Second semester French grammar and culture
2010-2011 French and Spanish Instructor, Houston Grand Opera
2011 Teaching Assistant, Rice University (Fall)
French 313 – “Introduction to the Francophone World”
2010 Teaching Assistant, Rice University (Spring)
Humanities 102 – “Civilization and Power: Readings from Machiavelli to Martin Luther King”
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in French Studies
Rice University, May 2017
Dissertation Title: “Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa”
Finalist for the John Gardner Dissertation Award in the Humanities
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French, Magna Cum Laude
University of Houston, December 2000
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
2022 “Building Bridges between New York and Colombia”
COIL Colombia Bridge: Cali –> Oneonta –> Adirondack
SUNY Oneonta
April 21st, 2022
2022 “The Haitian Revolution: The Continent’s Forgotten Revolution (1791-1804)”
Dr. Norman A. Enhorning Lecture Series
SUNY Adirondack Community College
April 19th, 2022
2021 “A Brief History of Zombies: The Forgotten Heroes of the Haitian Revolution”
SUNY Adirondack Lecture Series
March 24th, 2021
Zoom https://youtu.be/d7lItNK174I
2019 A “Poetics of Mourning: Maryse Condé’s Relationship to the French Language”
Languages: Power, Identities, Relationship
SAMLA 91 – South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2019
2018 “Santiago Gamboa’s Urban Global Cartography: Escaping the Colombia Border”
ACLA – American Comparative Literature Associate Annual MeetingUniversity of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, March 29-April 1, 2018
2013 “Un Arc-en-ciel pour l’Occident chrétien: un rituel vodou pour la guérison d’une conscience postcoloniale”
Karay de l’inter/transculturel : heurts et bonheurs
27th Congress CIEF – Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Grande Baie, Île Maurice, June 9-16, 2013
2013 “Aesthetics of Failure in Santiago Gamboa’s Plegarias Nocturnas”
Global Positioning Systems
ACLA – American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 4-7, 2013
2013 “Zombies and René Depestre’s Caribbean Creolization”
The Changing Landscape of American Multiethnic Literature through Historical Crises
27th MELUS Conference
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 14-17, 2013
2012 “Crossings Propelled by Death”
Crossings Frictions Fusions – Traversées Frictions Fusions
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Long Beach, California, March 29-31, 2012
2011 “Death and Afterlife in Maryse Condé and René Depestre”
Mapping Death Year-End Symposium
The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar 2010-2011
Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 23, 2011
2011 “Death and Afterlife: Nomadic Wanderings in French Caribbean Literature”
People Make Places
10th Congress of SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, April 17-21, 2011
2010 “Du Fauvisme aux gouaches découpés, l’itinéraire exploratoire d’Henri Matisse”
The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 18-20
Panel chaired: “Flora, Fauna, and Fauvism: Artistic and Poetic Auras”, 2010
2006 “The Alchemist, a Tale About the Individuation Process”
The European Mind: Narrative and Identity
International Society for the Study of European Ideas Conference
University of Malta, Malta, July 24-29, 2006
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2021 to date Member Curriculum Committee
SUNY Adirondack Community College
2018-to date Language Lab Supervisor at Center for Reading and Writing
SUNY Adirondack Community College
Coordinate schedules and supervise language tutors (ASL, French, Spanish)
2018 to date Foreign Language Faculty Liaison to High School Academy Program
SUNY Adirondack Community College
Coordinate and supervise SUNY ADK’s partnership with 17 local high schools to provide students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses in Spanish and French.
Supervise instructors to develop curriculum and assessment
10 sections of French 201 and 202, 13 sections of Spanish 201 and 202
2018 to date French and Spanish Film Night Series
Launched, coordinate, and promote monthly French and Spanish film viewings for SUNY ADK students
2019 to date Advisor International Club
SUNY Adirondack Community College
Advise students in the creation and day to day business of SUNY ADK’s first international club.
2018- to date Member International Education Committee
SUNY Adirondack Community College
2018 to 2020 Host French and Spanish Conversation Hour
SUNY Adirondack Community College
Met with students weekly to practice French and Spanish in SUNY ADK dining hall
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2021 OPI Certification ACTFL: Spanish
Oral Proficiency Interview
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Zoom ACTFL Summer Certification
2017 Collaborating Across the Divide: Digital Humanities and the Caribbean
Digital Humanities Working Group
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
2013 Digital Humanities Bootcamp Series
Rice University Humanities Research Center
Houston, Texas
2011 Graduate Summer Seminar on French Caribbean Literature
“Narratives of Traveling Cultures”
Professor Michael Dash, Department of French
New York University in Paris
Paris, France
2010-2011 The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar
“Mapping Death: Religious Preparations for Afterlife Journeys”
Professor April DeConick, Department of Religious Studies
Rice University
Houston, Texas
2009 Dartmouth Summer Institute for French Cultural Studies
Religion and Culture
Professor Lawrence D. Kritzman, Director
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
2008 Rice University Pedagogical Seminar
“Methodology and Technology Applied to Teaching Foreign Languages”
Professors Idranil Dutta, Jose Narbona and Peggy Patterson
Houston, Texas
2008 Colloque La Forme et l’informe dans la création moderne et contemporaine
Centre Culturel de Cerisy-La-Salle
Normandie, France
HONORS AND AWARDS
Rice University
2013 Marilyn Marrs Gillet Research Grant (for summer research in Haiti)
2012-2013 Rice Humanities Research Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2011-2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Rice Humanities Research Center Writing Workshop – Mapping Death Director: Professor April DeConick, Religious Studies
2011 Bull Ferguson Fellowship for summer research abroad (NYU in Paris, France)
2010-2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Rice Humanities Research Center Graduate Seminar Fellowship – Mapping Death Director: Professor April DeConick, Religious Studies
2009 Rice Humanities Research Center Summer Grant to participate in the Dartmouth, Summer Institute for French Cultural Studies Literature and Religion Director: Professor Lawrence D. Kritzman, Dartmouth College
2008 Bull Ferguson Fellowship for summer research abroad to attend the colloquium La Forme et l’Informe (Cerisy-La-Salle, France)
2007-2012 Rice University French Studies Graduate Scholarship
LANGUAGES
English (near-native)
French (near-native)
Spanish (native)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Conseil International d’Études Francophones
American Comparative Literature Association
American Council for Teaching Foreign Languages
“A different language is a different vision of life”
Federico Fellini
