​Editing and translation

After graduating from art school, I mastered the art of typography and proofreading at New York City type shops where I helped to create art books for museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and educational work for publishers like Scholastic while I enjoyed the art and punk rock scene of the 80s.

 

When I moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, in the early 90s, I edited, translated, or oversaw the production of many beautiful coffee table art books and art catalogs for museums and galleries.

 

In Mexico City, where I lived from 2010-2014, I worked as a subtitle editor doing closed captioning for film and television until I returned to graduate school in the States.

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After completing three master's degrees, I have divided my time between teaching and editorial work. The latter involves copyediting and proofreading academic texts, trade paperbacks, and fiction in English and Spanish. I also edited multiple law dissertations that focused on the intersection of legal and religious matters.

 

My translations cover scholarly work, art criticism, and literature, almost always from Spanish to English. As a literary translator, I concentrate on Latin America, especially Mexico, and more specifically on women writers and writers from Oaxaca, a place near and dear to my heart.

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Teaching

Following a year-long stint as a bilingual elementary school teacher in Brooklyn, my teaching career continued in Mexico where I was trained in teaching English as a New Language. I worked at two universities in Oaxaca over the course of several years.

 

When I returned to the States, I taught classes at two state universities in English literature and composition, intermediate Spanish, the first-year experience, and religious studies. In the last few years, I have concentrated on teaching multilingual immigrant students and advanced students of English, all of whom are adults.

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Writing and research

As a scholar of literature and religion, I study women's creative expression, especially mystical convent writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish-speaking world. I have done research and written about a Mexican woman healer and activist during the time of the revolution, the translation of women's mystical texts in sixteenth-century Spain, and the androgynous aspects of medieval women's writing. My academic pursuits have entailed archival research in Mexico, Spain, and Peru where I investigated the material and literary culture of women writers.

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I turned my graduate school research and writing into a practical application: content marketing about Hispanic/Latino culture, the Spanish language, and world culture. I also do research on cross-cultural matters regarding Latin America and Mexico.

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Art

Parallel to my editorial and educational work, I created art in a variety of media for three decades, mostly in Mexico, where I held five one-woman exhibits. I also participated in over sixty group shows in museums and galleries at the international level. After creating a feminist series on Catholic women saints, I branched out into literature-inspired textiles. Because of my experience and training, I am knowledgeable about art history and a wide range of art-making techniques. Find out more about my artwork.

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Education

• Graduate certificate, literary translation, Indiana University (Spanish)

• M.A., comparative literature, Indiana University

• M.A., religious studies, Indiana University

• M.A., European studies, Indiana University

• Certificate, figurative art, New York Academy of Art

• B.S., studio art, New York University

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