Ph.D. Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2016
M.A. Spanish, Ohio University, Athens, OH 2007
B.A. Spanish, Ohio University, Athens, OH 2005
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Yucateco Pirate Novels and the Discourses of the Mayan Rebel in the Nineteenth-Century Creole Imaginary.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Washington University, St. Louis. Forthcoming.
Book Chapters:
"A Neoliberal Love Spell: Race, Tourism and the Yucatan Peninsula and an Analysis of Televisa’s Sortilegio." In Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Ed. Cameron McCarthy. Champaign, IL: Common Grounds Publishing, 2014
INVITED LECTURES
“La literatura en español de Chicago: imaginarios de resistencia y resiliencia.” La cuarta feria del libro de Chicago, Virtual. Oct 16 2021.
Marín, Pedro Pablo, host. “El barroco latinoamericano y la imagen-como-presencia.” Xochipilli Magazine, Season 1, Ep 1. Sept 21 2021.
“A Hemispheric Perspective of US Policing Practices: Borders, (Im)migration and Criminalization.” December 2nd, 2020. FUND Students, Defund Police. Pedroso Center, Northeastern Illinois University, Virtual (COVID-19).
“Literatura de inmigración: Exploring the Midwest’s Spanish-Language Literary Production.” 20 Feb 2019. Western Carolina University: The Josefina Niggli Latinx Speaker Series. Invited Speaker.
Hyland, Steven, host. “Mayan Studies Today with Sarah West and Sarah Williams.” Historias, 11 Aug. 2019. Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies [SECOLAS], 2019.
Yucatán Caste Wars in “Contemporary” Maaya T’aan Bilingual Literature: En busca de María Uicab (Rosado Rosado and Chablé Mendoza) and Cecilio Chi’ (Gomez Navarrete). Latin Ameriican Studies Association Conference. San Francisco. May 5-8, 2022.
CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED
“In Chan Kaajalo’ob: Orality, Identity, and the Cultural Production of Mayan Latinxs.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Virtual (COVID-19). March 27-30, 2021.
“Aproximaciones académicas a la literatura en español de Chicago”. Latino Studies Association. Pending (postponed due to COVID-19).
“Literary Visions of the Caste War in Eligio Ancona’s La Mestiza (1861).” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 27-30, 2019.
“The Voices of Yucatán’s Caste War Rebels: a Literary Perspective.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 27-30, 2019.
“Mayanism, Caste War and the Mexican Revolution: The Shifting Discourses of Race in the Literatures of Early Twentieth-Century Yucatán.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Nashville, Tennessee. March 8-11, 2018.
2018-
Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2017-2018
Visiting Instructor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
2010-2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
2009-2010
Adjunct Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2007-2009
Instructor, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Colegio de Negocios Internacionales, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Study Abroad Instructor, Ohio University, Mérida, Yucatán, México
2005-2007
Teaching Assistant, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
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