Assistant Professor, Tenure-track, University of Delaware, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1998-2003

Assistant Professor, Non Tenure-track, University of Delaware, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1993-1998

Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Romance Languages & Classics, l983-l986

Graduate level: The Mexican Revolution and Beyond; Narrating Identity in Spanish American Literature; Exile and the Creative Writer in Latin America; The Child in Contemporary Latin American Literature; Masters of the Spanish American Short Story; Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature: The Fantastic, Magical Realism, and the Marvelous Real.

Undergraduate level: Survey of Spanish American Literature I & II, Latin American Civilization, Spanish Reading and Composition, Spanish Grammar and Composition, Spanish Conversation, Oral Communication in Spanish, Political Exile and the Creative Writer in Latin America, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Literature, Masters of the Spanish American Short Story, Argentine Literature in Translation, Intermediate Spanish, Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Elementary Portuguese (Faculty Language Program).

Conversation in Spanish: Points of Departure. Sixth edition. Co-authored with Frank Sedwick. Heinle & Heinle, 2001.

"All in the Family: Psychoanalytic Politics in the Short Stories of Cristina Peri Rossi," Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Nashville, Tennessee, November, 1997.

"Escaping to Paris through the Stories of Julio Cortázar" at 19th Mediterranean Conference. Paris/Bordeaux, July 1997.

"The Lure of the Preoedipal Mother in the Stories of Julio Cortázar" at Fourteenth International Conference in Literature and Psychology, Avila, Spain, July 1997.

"Family Ties in the Short Stories of Julio Cortázar: A Psychoanalytic Approach," at Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.

"The Mother's Desire/ the Mother's Despair in 'La salud de los enfermos' and 'Cartas de mamá' by Julio Cortázar," at State University of West Georgia International Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, October 1996.

"The Children's Revolt Against Structures of Repression in Cristina Peri Rossi's La rebelión de los niños" at the West Chester University Foreign Language Conference, The Politics of Language, Literature and the Mass Media, West Chester, PA, October 1996.

"Rewriting Women in Cortázar's 'Cambio de luces' and 'Queremos tanto a Glenda' " at The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting, San Diego, August 1995.

"The Maternal Figure as Object of Desire in the Short Stories of Julio Cortázar" at Latin American Studies Association XIX International Congress, Washington, D.C, September 1995.

"Antes que anochezca by Reinaldo Arenas: Sexual and Political Dissidence in Castro's Cuba" at Redefining Culture(s) for the 21st Century, The West Chester University Foreign Languages Conference, October 1994.

Lecture-Presentation for Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College. December 3, 2001. "¿Qué es lo que quiere Luciana? Rescatando el deseo femenino en 'Cambio de luces' de Julio Cortázar."

Lecture for the Women's Studies "Research on Women" fall 1999 lecture series, September 22, 1999. "Images of Motherhood in the Stories of Argentine Writer Julio Cortázar."

Lecture at the University of San Diego, April 16, 1999. "The Evolving Role of Paris in the Literary Production of Julio Cortázar: Eurocentrism vs. Postmodernism."

Guest speaker for the Sigma Delta Phi initiation ceremony, Temple University, April 1998. "El papel cambiante de París en la obra cuentística cortazareana, o ¿es Julio Cortázar un posmoderno?"
 
 

Project Director, "Buenos Aires: A Tale of Two Cities. Mapping the New Reality through Poetry and Photography." An Exhibition of Poetry and Photography and a Speaker’s Forum about Crisis and Change in Latin America. October 2003

Director, Latin American Studies Program

Hispanic and Latin American Council Member, 2003

Convener and Member, Committee to reevaluate Hispanic civilization and culture course courses, 2001

Third Bi-National Urban Plunge, Participant, 1992