Ph.D., Candidate, Spanish, University of California, Irvine.
M.A., Spanish Literature, University of California, Irvine.
B.A., Spanish, Minor in Chicano Studies, English/Spanish Translation Certificate, California State University, Channel Islands.
Spanish Teacher, Sage Hill School
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2020.
My humanities graduate degree allowed me to develop critical skills that I will take with me the rest of my life.
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2020
M.A. Religious Studies with a graduate certificate in Social Transformation, Arizona State University, 2015
B.A. in Communication Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2012
Research Interests: Southern Cone literature, Latin American colonial literature; Ecocriticism; World-ecology; Temporal politics; Embodiment; Critical Theory
Email: lcashbea@uci.edu
Associate Professor of Spanish, College of the Desert
B.A. 2013 California State University - Channel Islands
M.A. 2015 University of California - Irvine
Ph.D. 2020 University of California - Irvine
M.A. Spanish, U.C. Irvine
Area of research: Latin American travel writing
Dissertation Title: Northern Sights: Gender and Race in Latin American Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives of the United States.
Additional Education: Teaching Credential California State University, East Bay
Email: lgruen@uci.edu
Brigham Young University
Areas of Research: Humor and irony in 20th-21st century Spain, especially in the novel post-Franco; Translation Studies, especially translator subjectivity, self-translation, and translator/interpreter ethics. Secondary areas include Golden Age (la comedia and el Quijote) and Colonial narrative
Degree conferred: Summer 2018
Areas of Research: 20th Century US and Latin American Poetry and Poetics, Critical
Theory, Translation Theory and Practice.
Degree Conferred: Fall 2018
B.S. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service
M.A. Professional Writing Program, University of Southern California
M.A. Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of Research: Latin American dictatorships in literature and film. Planned doctoral dissertation on selections from the works by Fernando Alegría. The particular issue of individual sovereignty --as citizen or exile-- are explored.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Degree Conferred: Spring 2015
Ustedes que ya no son americanos: identidad, migración y memoria narrativa en Cristina Rivera Garza, Edmundo Paz Soldán y Alberto Fuguet
Buena Vista University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2015
Dissertation Title: "Broken Mirrors and a Decaying God: The Religious, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Underpinnings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán's esperpentos"
Fullerton College
Degree Conferred: Winter 2015
Dissertation Title: "Different Shades of Domesticity: Representations of Intersecting Power Relations In Latin American Literarcy and Visual Culture"
DePauw University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2014
Dissertation Title: Sentimental Geographies: Cervantes and the Cultural Politics of Affect in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Salve Regina University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2012
Dissertation Title: The Other Sephardic Diaspora: Feminine Representations of Sephardic Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Soka University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2012
Dissertation Title: Saltando entre la página y la pantalla: La convergencia de la tecnolgía, los medios masivos y la literatura en la narrativa de América Latina en el Siglo XXI
Long Beach City College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2011
Dissertation Title: Chicana Lesbian Novels: The construction of Identity in the coming-out process
Soka University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2011
Dissertation Title: Performance de genero en el escenario etnico: Representaciones literarias de la Chicana/Latina
Associate Professor of Spanish University at Albany, State University of NewYork
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Monsters, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Innovation and Transformation of Gothic Forms in Latin American Narrative
Associate Professor of Spanish
Ohio Wesleyan University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Voices of Dissidence and Hope in Post-Dictatorial Narrative and Film: The Child, the Prisoner and the Madman
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Spanish
University of Southern California
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Escrituras (des)encantadas: la poética de las ruinas en la narrativa
cubana contemporánea
San Diego Mesa College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Comics as Text and Comics as Culture: Queer Spain through the Lens of a Marginalized Medium
Associate Faculty in Spanish
MiraCosta College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2008
Dissertation Title: Representaciones de ausencia: Intersecciones de memoria y política en la ficción latinoamericana (1965-2005)
Associate Professor Spanish
Pomona College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2008
Dissertation Title: De(con)structive Devices: Post-Structuralism and Post-Marxism in Spanish Poetry, 1968-1972
Fresno Pacific University
Degree Conferred: Winter 2008
Dissertation Title: In Search of a Narrative of History: Embodied Pain and Transformative Allegories in Four Latin American Novels of Dictatorshi
Georgia College & State University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2008
Dissertation Title: De aparente color rosa: Discurso y recurso sentimental en las novelas de Argentina Díaz Lozano
California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 2007
Dissertation Title: Impolitical Writings: anti-representations of the community in Osvaldo Lamborghini, Virgilio Piñera and Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
Setton Hill University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2006
Dissertation Title: Cultural Encounters in the Poetry of Clara Janes: The Aesthetics of otherness and cross-cultural explorations of the self
California State University, Fresno
Degree Conferred: Summer 2005
Dissertation Title: The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 40s in Spain and Portugal: The cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando
University of San Francisco
Degree Conferred: Winter 2005
Dissertation Title: Sarmiento viajero: la configuración de las formas en el discurso de
la inmigración
Claremont College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2004
Dissertation Title: El cuerpo: Matriz de lo extrano en los discursos de la sexualidad y de la historia en la narrativa de escritoras latinoamericanas
Kennesaw State University,Georgia
Degree Conferred: Spring 2004
Dissertation Title: Cinematic Visions/Revisions in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her [Hable con ella, 2000]
Claremont College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2003
Dissertation Title: La imagen de la familia como alegoria de la nacion en el teatro argentino de la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Kent Denver School
Degree Conferred: Spring 2003
Dissertation Title: Diversas dimensiones de los medios de comunicación masiva y la narrativa de Manuel Puig
Lincoln High School
Degree Conferred: Winter 2003
Dissertation Title: Missionary Positions: Unpinning Women from Under the Paradigms of Patriarchal Discourses of the Nation
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Degree Conferred: Spring 2002
Dissertation Title: El yo y la figura de la madre en la narrativa espanola del siglo XX
California State University, Fresno
Degree Conferred: Summer 2001
Dissertation Title: Cuerpo y experiencia en la construccion poetica de la comunidad: Luis Vaz de Camoes y Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
University of Dallas
Degree Conferred: Winter 2001
Dissertation Title: Discursos imaginarios, cultura popular y formacion del estado en Mexican Folkways
Grinnel College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2000
Dissertation Title: Negotiating Aesthetics and politics: The Poetry of Claribel Alegria, Ernesto Cardenal and Roque Dalton
Texas A&M University
Degree Conferred: Summer 1998
Dissertation Title: La narrativa familiar en la literatura mexicana reciente: rescate escritural, genealogia inaginada
Pomona College
Degree Conferred: Summer 1998
Dissertation Title: La construccion de la afrocubanidad a traves de las artes espectaculares cubanas despues de 1959
University of Illinois-Urbana
Degree Conferred: Winter 1998
Dissertation Title: Male Identity, a Woman's Place, and the Formation of a Symbolic Community in Spanish Renaissance Pastoralism
California State University, Long Beach
Degree Conferred: Winter 1998
Dissertation Title: Teatralidad, Identidad Nacional y Menoria Historica: rituales y ceremonias de duelo, purificacion y expiacion en el Chile de la Post-dictadura
University of Redlands
Degree Conferred: Summer 1997
Dissertation Title: Masculinidad en la narrative hispanoamericana: Hegemonia, transgresion y descontrucción
University of California, Davis
Degree Conferred: Spring 1997
Dissertation Title: Versions of Space in Two Mexican Writers: Esther Seligson and Coral Bracho
Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Winter 1997
Dissertation Title: El Discurso Sutobiografico y La Escritura Testimonial en Los Escritos de Cristobal Colon y Amerigo Vespucci
University of California, Los Angeles
Degree Conferred: Fall 1997
Dissertation Title: Underlying Gender Construction in the Latin Ameican Regionalist Novel
Santiago Canyon College
Degree Conferred: Fall 1996
Dissertation Title: Poetas Mexicanas Contemporaneas: La Subjetividad en la Poesia de Coral Bracho, Myriam Moscana y Kyra Galvan
Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 1995
Dissertation Title: Photography and Contemporary Spanish Theater: Kaleidoscopic Modes of Dramatic Representation
Georgetown University
Degree Conferred: Spring 1994
Dissertation Title: El Reciclaje de la Historia: Camp, Monstruous y Travestis en el Cine De Pedro Almodovar
Illinois Wesleyan University
Degree Conferred: Spring 1993
Dissertation Title: Contra la Modernidad: La Dialectica High/Low en La Poesta es Panola Contemporanea
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Degree Conferred: Fall 1993
Dissertation Title: Centro y Margen en la Poesia Contemporanea Venezolana: Codigos Esteticos e Identidad Nacional
California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 1993
Dissertation Title: Marriage and Family Relations in the Context of Spanish Theatre of the Golden Age
University of Central Florida
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Ideologica y representacion de la revolucion mexicana en el discurso teatral
Texas Tech University
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Reading Between the Lines: Self-fictionalization as narrative strategy in la voragine el tunel and los pasos perdidos
Rikkyo University, Toshima-Ku, Tokyo
Degree Conferred: Fall 1991
Dissertation Title: La reapropiacion del indigenismo en la narrativa femenina contemporanea de Mexico
University of Central Florida
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Ideologica y representacion de la revolucion mexicana en el discurso teatral
