Service

SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT

Latin American and Latinx Studies Department:

  • Personnel and Budget Committee, 2019 – present
  • Chair, Student Recognition and Department Graduation Ceremony Committee, 2016
  • Student Grade Appeals Committee, 2010-2019
  • Curriculum Committee, 2010-2019
  • Graduate and Law School Honors Workshop Co-Facilitator, 2010-2013
  • Faculty Search Committee, 2013

English Department:

  • Racial Justice Committee, 2021 – present
  • Periodic Major Review Committee, 2015-2016
  • Graduate School Workshop participant, 2013
  • Major Advising Committee, 2011-2012

 

SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE

Latinx Literature Minor Program:

Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Latinx Literature Minor Program, 2012 – present

I co-created and organized the 13-course minor in Latinx Literature. Courses include:

  • LLS 1XX Introduction to Latinx Literature
  • LIT 265  Foundations in Latinx Literature
  • LLS 2XX Criminal Justice in Latinx Literature
  • LLS 2XX Latinx Film and New Media
  • LLS 2XX Latinx Horror and Gothic in Literature and Film
  • LIT 2XX Graphic Novel in Latinx Literature
  • LIT 2XX Latinx Street Literature
  • LLS 362  Entangled Tongues: Bilingualism in Latinx Literature
  • LLS 363  Il/Legal Subjects: Latinx Literature and the Law
  • LLS 364  Ethical Strains in Latinx Literature
  • LIT 383  Gender and Sexuality in Latinx Literature
  • LIT 3XX Afro-Latinx Literature
  • LIT 409  Seminar in Latinx Literature

 

College-wide Committees:

  • At-large Representative, Faculty Senate, 2015-2017
  • Faculty Representative, College Council, 2015-2017
  • Working Committee on Service, Faculty Senate/Faculty Personnel Committee, 2017
  • Honors Program Advisory Board, 2016-2017
  • Faculty Senate Committee on Technology, 2016-2017
  • Committee on Assessment, John Jay College, 2013-2014
  • Latina/o Retention Initiative Committee, Office of Undergraduate Studies, 2011 – 2012

 

Webinars, Workshops, and Other:

  • “How To Use Playposit,” November 19, 2020: Digital Humanities Webinar Series, Department of Online Education and Support
  • Faculty Development Day, August 25, 2020: “Effective Responses for Traumatized Minds: Resilient Strategies for Attentive Learning,” co-presented with Delmar Dualeh, Leah K. Entenmann, Joel Freiser, and Mahathi Kosuri
  • Faculty Development Day, January 27, 2017: “Online/Digital Teaching: Engaging Combinations: VoiceThread, Library Gems, and Web Apps,” co-presented with Robin Camille Davis
  • Co-Organizer of the John Jay College Latina/o Literature Reader Series, 2010-2012

 

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

  • PSC-CUNY’s Interdisciplinary Studies Grant Proposal Evaluation Committee, 2015-2018

 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Conference Organizing:

Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, The Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism            Conference

 

Service in Professional Associations:

  • Secretary, Chicana/o Literature Forum, Modern Language Association, elected position, 2018-2022
  • Member, Ethnic Studies Committee, American Studies Association, 2012-2015

 

Award Committees:

  • Frederick Cervantes Essay Award Selection Committee, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2016, 2012, 2018
  • Comparative Ethnic Studies Essay Prize Selection Committee, American Studies Association, 2014, 2012
  • Minority and Indigenous Graduate Student Travel Grant Selection Committee, American Studies Association, 2013
  • Expert referee for the Humanities in the European Research Area – Joint Research Programme (HERA-JRP), 2012

 

Journal Manuscript Reviews:

  • Critical Philosophy of Race, 2017
  • MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 2015
  • Latino Studies, 2014, 2012, 2018

 

Publisher Manuscript Reviews:

  • University of Nebraska Press

 

TRAINING and CERTIFICATIONS

  • VoiceThread Advanced Skills, VoiceThread training webinar, Feb. 4, 2020
  • VoiceThread Basics 2 – Groups and Secure Sharing,” VoiceThread training webinar, Jan. 17, 2017
  • Student Advisement Training, Academic Advisement Center, 2016
  • Writing Intensive Certification Workshop, Office of Undergraduate Studies, 2015
  • Preparation for Teaching Online Workshop, CUNY School of Professional Studies, 2015

 

STUDENT MENTORSHIP

  • Faculty Advisor and founder, La Voz, LLS Department Student Newsletter, 2011 – 2016
  • Faculty Advisor, La Voz Student Club, 2012 – 2016
  • Faculty organizer of student panel for the 1st Biennial U.S. Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, John Jay College, March 8, 2013
    • Panel: “Migration, Gender, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latina/o Literature and Film”
  • Faculty organizer of LLS student panel for the 4th Annual Celebrating Student Research and        Creativity Week, John Jay College, April 29 – May 3, 2013
    • Panel: “New Research in Latin American and Latina/o Studies”
  • Faculty organizer of 2 student panels for the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2014
    • Panel: “Race, Mestizaje, and Sexuality in the Construction of Mexican and Chicana/o Identities”
    • Panel: “Zoot Suits, Pistols, and Gun Walking: Violence, Authority, and the Law in Chicano Literature and the Frontera”
  • Faculty Mentor, Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Internship Program, 2013
    • Student mentee: Alexandra Chacon
    • Research project: “Latinas/os and the Global War on Terror”
    • Research award: $3,000.00
  • Faculty Mentor, Office of Undergraduate Research, Research Funds, 2013
    • Student mentee: Maricela Cano
    • Research project: “Race and Ethnicity in Ecuador”
    • Research award: $500.00
  • Honors Thesis Advisor, 2014
    • Student advisee: Andrea Velasquez
    • Thesis: “The Injustice of the Peruvian Judicial System: An Evaluation of a System Weakened by Corruption”