EDUCATION

2014

Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Dissertation: "Mediating Authenticity: Gender, Race, and Representation in the Careers of Clementina de Jesus and Carolina Maria de Jesus"

Dissertation committee: Christopher Dunn, Rebecca Atencio, Daniel Sharp, Edith Wolfe

2009

M.A. in Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Thesis: "A Turma do Pererê: Representations of Race and Gender in a Pre-Dictatorial Brazilian Children's Comic"

2001

B.A. in Studio Art, Bard College

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2013-2017

Assistant Professor of Portuguese (Limited Term)

Department of Foreign Languages, United States Military Academy, West Point NY

PUBLICATIONS

Referreed Journal Articles

2018                      "Quarto de Despejo no Palco: Staging Authenticity in Representations of Brazilian Poverty." Latin American Theater Review. Forthcoming.

2017                      "No Tempo de Zicartola: Locating Cultural Mediation and Social Change in Rio de Janeiro, 1963-65." Hispania 100.3 (September): 439-449.

2010                     "Ziraldo's A Turma de Pererê: Representations of Race in a Brazilian Children's Comic." Afro-Hispanic Review 29.2: 143-160.

Book Chapter

2014                      "A Turma do Pererê: Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic." Gender Empire and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections. Eds. Hillary Owen and Anna Klobucka. Palgrave Macmillan.