My areas of research and teaching interest include: Latin American Literature and Culture; Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture; Literary Criticism; Literary Analysis; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies; and Feminism.
Research papers that I have previously presented at conferences are:
2008 “O silêncio do subalterno em Menino de Engenho e Banguê”
Presented at the Annual Symposium of Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture at the University of Arizona. This paper critically analyzes the discourse created in José Lins do Rego´s two novels. Drawing from Spivak and Foucault´s theories I discuss what the discourse reveals about the relations between power and knowledge and I argue that in the course of representing the Others, the novels silence any divergent voices.
2007 “Coronación : ¿Un mundo de contrastes o similitudes?”
Presented at the Annual Symposium of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture at the University of Arizona. This paper examines how Jose Donoso’s technique of contrasting binary opposites pre-dates and can be re-examined by Derrida's Deconstruction theory.
2007 " El colonialismo utopico de Vasco de Quiroga"
Presented at the Graduate Student Conference at Georgetown University. This study focuses on the re-examination of Vasco de Quiroga’s legacy from a post-colonial theoretical perspective.