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
- 4th Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, “Transamerican Reticulations: Towards a Latinx Theory of Hemispheric Literatures,” April 25-27, 2019,John Jay College, http://emaze.me/latlitconfnyc#Home
- 3rd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, “Latinx Lives, Matters and Imaginaries,” April 13-15, 2017, John Jay College, http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/latin2017/x.asp
- 2nd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, “Latina/o Utopias: Futures, Forms, and the Will of Literature,” April 23-25, 2015, John Jay College, http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/latinaliteraryconference2015/x.asp
- 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, “Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures,” March 7-9, 2013, John Jay College, http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/latinaliteraryconference/x.asp
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”