Comments:
After high school, I left to study in Madrid, Spain for a year as an exchange student. I later moved to Tennessee where I majored in Spanish and Latin American Studies (emphasis Portuguese), and eventually ended up graduating from the University of Houston with a BA in Spanish and Italian Studies, an MA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics, and a PhD in Spanish/Hispanic Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
I later worked for Arte Público Press as an editor and translator of adult, YA, and children's literature as part of my RAship as I completed my PhD in US Latina/o literature. Arte Público is the largest and oldest publisher of Hispanic literature in the U.S. I was also Research Assistant for the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, a national program to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the Union.
I currently reside in Wisconsin, where I am a Professor of Latina/o Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
