Teaching

After a year-long stint as a bilingual elementary school teacher in Brooklyn, my teaching career began in Mexico where I was trained as an English as a Second Language teacher and taught at two universities in Oaxaca over the course of several years. When I returned to the States, I first taught second-year Spanish at Indiana University and later taught classes in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Religious Studies at IU.

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My greatest joy is teaching about literature and writing. Although I specialize in sixteenth- and seventeenth century texts by Spanish-speaking convent writers, I enjoy teaching courses on a wide range of literatures, including world literature and women’s literature. In my classes, I often emphasize issues of race, gender, class, and coloniality; I also discuss the religious aspects of the text, which often get overlooked. When teaching English composition for two years at IU, I helped first-year students improve their academic writing and research skills.

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I have developed syllabi on the following subjects:

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• Women Who Wrote: Literature and Religion in the Premodern World

• The Long History of the End of the World

• Radical Women.