Associate Professor of Romance Languages

• Latin American literature
  
• Eco-criticism, Latin American cultural studies
• 19th century Latin America
• Colonialism and post-colonialism

• Intermediate Spanish (RLSP 103)
  
• Latin American Civilizations (RLSP 200)
• Violent States, Violent Subjects: Nation-Building and Atrocity in 19th Century Latin America (RLSP/COMP 230T)
• Humor in Latin American Literature (RLSP 256)
• War in Modern Literature (COMP 251T)
• Literature of the Americas (COMP 219)

• B.A. College of William and Mary, 1995
  
• M.A. Rutgers University, 1997
• Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2001, "The Invisible Empire: Neo-colonialism and the Spanish-American Regional Novel"

• Nature, Neo-Colonialism, and the Spanish American Regional Writers, University Press of New England, 2005.
  
• "Peace, Progress and Human Rights: Juan Bautista Alberdi’s The Crime of War." Under review.
• “Violence in Paraguayan Narrative” by Mar Langa Pizarro and Jennifer French. Accepted for publication in Violence in Latin American Art, edited by Victoria Carpenter. Palgrave-MacMillan, forthcoming.
• “Un mundo al revés: La Guerra del Paraguay en los escritos de Lucio V. Mansilla.” Under review at Revista del Nuevo Mundo , Paris.
• “Martin Decoud in the Afterlife: A Dialogue with Latin American Writers.” Under review at Conradiana.
• “Conrad and the ‘ Poland of the Americas’: Nostromo’s Latin American Contexts.” Przeglad Politycny (“Political Quarterly”), Gdansk, Poland. December, 2005.
• “‘A Geographical Inquiry into Historical Experience’: The Misiones Stories of Horacio Quiroga” Latin American Literary Review, January-June 2003.
• “‘Imperium in imperio’: Nostromo and Neo-Colonialism.” Accepted for publication in Connecting Continents: Britain and Latin America 1780-1900, edited by Robert Aguirre and Ross Forman. Forthcoming.

• “From Colonial Cartographies to Bioregional Communities: Latin America’s RegionalistWriters Respond to Informal Imperialism.” Invited speaker at “After ‘InformalEmpire’? Commerce and Culture Outside Britain’s Formal Empire in the Long 19th Century.” University of
  
• Bristol/Bristol Institute for Research in theHumanities and Arts. January 30-31, 2007.
• “El pensamiento posnacional de Juan Bautista Alberdi,” presented at Congreso de la Federación Canadiense de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Toronto, Canada. May 23-25, 2006.
• “To Read/Write in the Red-Light District: Books, Democracy and the Market in Contemporary Paraguay,” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, Princeton University. March 24-26, 2006.
• “Muerte y transfiguración del Mariscal López: The Negative Sublime of Juan Emiliano O’Leary,” presented at Latin American Literatures and Cultures Conference, Colorado Springs. February 23-25, 2006.
• “Augusto Roa Bastos and the Aesthetics of Defeat,” invited talk at the University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. January 20, 2006.
• “Un mundo al revés: La Guerra del Paraguay en los escritos de Lucio V. Mansilla,” presented at Congrès International: Le Paraguay à l’ombre de ses Guerres (1864-2004). Sujets, pouvoirs et esthétiques. Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, et Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, France. November 17-19, 2005.