Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (exp. 2022)

M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (2019)

B.A., Spanish and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington (2017), magna cum laude

Research Interests

• The intersection of race and medicine in Cuban and Brazilian literature and culture
• Public Health practices in Latin America and their presentation in cultural products
• The role of medical discourse in anti-racist and anti-capitalist social movements
• Biomedical and clinical ethics
• Translation and language acquisition

Teaching

Advanced Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2019; Spring 2020)

Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2017; Spring 2018)

Accelerated Elementary Spanish (Fall 2018; Spring 2019)

Grants & Awards

University of Mary Washington Fita Rivas Scholarship for graduate studies in Spanish (2017)

Charles Killian Woltz Summer Fellowship for travel to Cuba (2018)