2024

University of California, Los Angeles
Degree Conferred: Spring 2024
 

Degree Conferred: Spring 2024

2023

Degree Conferred: Winter 2023

Degree Conferred: Spring 2023

Assistant Professor of Spanish
California State University, Bakersfield
Degree Conferred: Spring 2023

Associate Faculty
Irvine Valley College
Degree Conferred: Fall 2023

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University
Degree Conferred: Summer 2023
 

2022

UC Berkeley's Latinx Research Center
Degree Conferred: Winter 2022

Degree Conferred: Spring 2022

2021

Spanish Teacher, Sage Hill School 
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2020.
My humanities graduate degree allowed me to develop critical skills that I will take with me the rest of my life. 

Degree Conferred: Fall 2021

2020

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2020
M.A. Religious Studies with a graduate certificate in Social Transformation, Arizona State University, 2015
B.A. in Communication Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2012
Research Interests: Southern Cone literature, Latin American colonial literature; Ecocriticism; World-ecology; Temporal politics; Embodiment; Critical Theory
Email: lcashbea@uci.edu

Associate Professor of Spanish, College of the Desert
B.A. 2013 California State University - Channel Islands
M.A. 2015 University of California - Irvine
Ph.D. 2020 University of California - Irvine

M.A. Spanish, U.C. Irvine
Area of research: Latin American travel writing
Dissertation Title:  Northern Sights: Gender and Race in Latin American Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives of the United States.
Additional Education: Teaching Credential California State University, East Bay
Email: lgruen@uci.edu

2019

Riverside City College
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2019.

Brigham Young University
Areas of Research: Humor and irony in 20th-21st century Spain, especially in the novel post-Franco; Translation Studies, especially translator subjectivity, self-translation, and translator/interpreter ethics. Secondary areas include Golden Age (la comedia and el Quijote) and Colonial narrative

Degree Conferred: 2019

2018

Degree conferred: Summer 2018
Areas of Research: 20th Century US and Latin American Poetry and Poetics, Critical
Theory, Translation Theory and Practice.

Degree conferred: Spring 2018
Area of interest: Spanish Literature and Culture; Film

College of Charleston, South Carolina
Degree conferred: Spring 2018

Degree Conferred: Fall 2018
Area of Research: 20th Century Latin American Literature

Degree Conferred: Fall 2018
B.S. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service
M.A. Professional Writing Program, University of Southern California
M.A. Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of Research: Latin American dictatorships in literature and film. Planned doctoral dissertation on selections from the works by Fernando Alegría. The particular issue of individual sovereignty --as citizen or exile-- are explored.

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2018

2016

Degree Conferred: Spring 2016

Degree Conferred: Spring 2016

Brigham Young University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2016
Mexico in Ruins: Metaphors of Ruins and Ruination in Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2016
Nación y trayectoria histórica del sujeto gay in la narrativa mexicana del siglo XIX y XX.

2015

Biola University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2015
Espacios que asustan: el horror en la narrativa española contemporánea (cuento y cine)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Degree Conferred: Spring 2015
Ustedes que ya no son americanos: identidad, migración y memoria narrativa en Cristina Rivera Garza, Edmundo Paz Soldán y Alberto Fuguet

Buena Vista University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2015
Dissertation Title: "Broken Mirrors and a Decaying God: The Religious, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Underpinnings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán's esperpentos"

Fullerton College
Degree Conferred: Winter 2015
Dissertation Title: "Different Shades of Domesticity:  Representations of Intersecting Power Relations In Latin American Literarcy and Visual Culture"

2014

DePauw University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2014
Dissertation Title: Sentimental Geographies: Cervantes and the Cultural Politics of Affect in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2014
Dissertation Title: Espacio y Marginalidad en la Narrativa Mexicana Del Siglo XX

2013

University of Washington
Degree Conferred: Fall 2013
Dissertation Title: Negotiating Modernity and Subalternity in Peru

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2014
Dissertation Title: Espacio y Marginalidad en la Narrativa Mexicana Del Siglo XX

2012

Salve Regina University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2012
Dissertation Title: The Other Sephardic Diaspora: Feminine Representations of Sephardic Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Soka University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2012
Dissertation Title: Saltando entre la página y la pantalla: La convergencia de la tecnolgía, los medios masivos y la literatura en la narrativa de América Latina en el Siglo XXI

2011

Long Beach City College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2011
Dissertation Title: Chicana Lesbian Novels: The construction of Identity in the coming-out process

Soka University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2011
Dissertation Title: Performance de genero en el escenario etnico:  Representaciones literarias de la Chicana/Latina

California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 2011
 

2009

Associate Professor of Spanish 
University at Albany, State University of NewYork
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Monsters, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Innovation and Transformation of Gothic Forms in Latin American Narrative

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ohio Wesleyan University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Voices of Dissidence and Hope in Post-Dictatorial Narrative and Film: The Child, the Prisoner and the Madman

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Spanish
University of Southern California
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Escrituras (des)encantadas: la poética de las ruinas en la narrativa
cubana contemporánea

San Diego Mesa College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2009
Dissertation Title: Comics as Text and Comics as Culture: Queer Spain through the Lens of a Marginalized Medium

2008

Associate Professor in Theater / Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies
Darthmouth College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2008
 

Associate Faculty in Spanish
MiraCosta College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2008
Dissertation Title: Representaciones de ausencia: Intersecciones de memoria y política en la ficción latinoamericana (1965-2005)

Associate Professor Spanish
Pomona College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2008
Dissertation Title: De(con)structive Devices: Post-Structuralism and Post-Marxism in Spanish Poetry, 1968-1972

University of Colorado Denver
Degree Conferred: Winter 2008
Dissertation Title: El medio fotográfico en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina

Fresno Pacific University
Degree Conferred: Winter 2008
Dissertation Title: In Search of a Narrative of History: Embodied Pain and Transformative Allegories in Four Latin American Novels of Dictatorshi

Georgia College & State University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2008
Dissertation Title: De aparente color rosa: Discurso y recurso sentimental en las novelas de Argentina Díaz Lozano

Rancho Santiago Community College
Degree Conferred: Fall 2008
Dissertation Title: Benefits and Gifts: The Economy of Exchange in Spain's Golden Age

2007

University of South Alabama
Degree Conferred: Summer 2007
Dissertation Title: Subversive verse: Zurita, Lihn, Berenguer and Post-coup Chilean Poetry

Yale University
Degree Conferred: Spring 2007
Dissertation Title: Visualización de la marginalidad en el cine Iberoamericano de fin de siglo

California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 2007
Dissertation Title: Impolitical Writings: anti-representations of the community in Osvaldo Lamborghini, Virgilio Piñera and Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

2006

University of Utah
Degree Conferred: Summer 2006
 

University of Missouri-Columbia
Degree Conferred: Summer 2006
Dissertation Title: Dispora y memoria: Las excritoras Judio-Mexican

Setton Hill University
Degree Conferred: Fall 2006
Dissertation Title: Cultural Encounters in the Poetry of Clara Janes: The Aesthetics of otherness and cross-cultural explorations of the self

2005

California State University, Fresno
Degree Conferred: Summer 2005
Dissertation Title: The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 40s in Spain and Portugal: The cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando

University of San Francisco
Degree Conferred: Winter 2005
Dissertation Title: Sarmiento viajero: la configuración de las formas en el discurso de
la inmigración

2004

Claremont College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2004
Dissertation Title: El cuerpo: Matriz de lo extrano en los discursos de la sexualidad y de la historia en la narrativa de escritoras latinoamericanas

Wooster College Ohio
Degree Conferred: Spring 2004
Dissertation Title: Skepticism in Unamuno: Fictional Variations on the Ancient and Modern Tropes

Kennesaw State University,Georgia
Degree Conferred: Spring 2004
Dissertation Title: Cinematic Visions/Revisions in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her [Hable con ella, 2000]

2003

Claremont College
Degree Conferred: Spring 2003
Dissertation Title: La imagen de la familia como alegoria de la nacion en el teatro argentino de la segunda mitad del siglo XX

Kent Denver School
Degree Conferred: Spring 2003
Dissertation Title: Diversas dimensiones de los medios de comunicación masiva y la narrativa de Manuel Puig

Lincoln High School
Degree Conferred: Winter 2003
Dissertation Title: Missionary Positions: Unpinning Women from Under the Paradigms of Patriarchal Discourses of the Nation

Old Dominion University
Degree Conferred: Winter 2003
Dissertation Title: The performativity of Latin American poetry

2002

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Degree Conferred: Spring 2002
Dissertation Title: El yo y la figura de la madre en la narrativa espanola del siglo XX

California State University, Fullerton
Degree Conferred: Spring 2002
Dissertation Title: La mistica sufi en Maria Zambrano

United States Military Academy, West Point
Degree Conferred: Spring 2002
Dissertation Title: Staging El caballero de Olmedo

2001

California State University, Fresno
Degree Conferred: Summer 2001
Dissertation Title: Cuerpo y experiencia en la construccion poetica de la comunidad: Luis Vaz de Camoes y Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

University of Idaho
Degree Conferred: Spring 2001

University of Dallas
Degree Conferred: Winter 2001
Dissertation Title: Discursos imaginarios, cultura popular y formacion del estado en Mexican Folkways

2000

Grinnel College
Degree Conferred: Summer 2000
Dissertation Title: Negotiating Aesthetics and politics: The Poetry of Claribel Alegria, Ernesto Cardenal and Roque Dalton

1999

Brigham Young University
Degree Conferred: Winter 1999
Dissertation Title: Daimonic Identity: Luis Cernuda and Twentieth Century Artistic Culture

1998

Texas A&M University
Degree Conferred: Summer 1998
Dissertation Title: La narrativa familiar en la literatura mexicana reciente: rescate escritural, genealogia inaginada

Pomona College
Degree Conferred: Summer 1998
Dissertation Title: La construccion de la afrocubanidad a traves de las artes espectaculares cubanas despues de 1959

University of Indiana
Degree Conferred: Summer 1998
Dissertation Title: Testimonies of Poetry in Hispanic Literature

University of Illinois-Urbana
Degree Conferred: Winter 1998
Dissertation Title: Male Identity, a Woman's Place, and the Formation of a Symbolic Community in Spanish Renaissance Pastoralism

California State University, Long Beach
Degree Conferred: Winter 1998
Dissertation Title: Teatralidad, Identidad Nacional y Menoria Historica: rituales y ceremonias de duelo, purificacion y expiacion en el Chile de la Post-dictadura

1997

University of Redlands
Degree Conferred: Summer 1997
Dissertation Title: Masculinidad en la narrative hispanoamericana: Hegemonia, transgresion y descontrucción

University of California, Davis
Degree Conferred: Spring 1997
Dissertation Title: Versions of Space in Two Mexican Writers: Esther Seligson and Coral Bracho

University of Vermont
Degree Conferred: Winter 1997
Dissertation Title: The Avant-Garde Vision in mexico: From Modernismo to the Contemporaneos

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Winter 1997
Dissertation Title: El Discurso Sutobiografico y La Escritura Testimonial en Los Escritos de Cristobal Colon y Amerigo Vespucci

California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 1997
Dissertation Title: Parodia en la novela mexicana contemporánea

University of California, Los Angeles
Degree Conferred: Fall 1997
Dissertation Title: Underlying Gender Construction in the Latin Ameican Regionalist Novel

Texas A&M University - Commerce
Degree Conferred: Fall 1997
Dissertation Title: Modelizaciones de lo indigena en la narrativa de Ciro Alegria

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Degree Conferred: 1997
 

1997

Ohio State University
Degree Conferred: Fall 1996
Dissertation Title: La Puesta en Escena Enla Argentina de los Anos Noventa

Santiago Canyon College
Degree Conferred: Fall 1996
Dissertation Title: Poetas Mexicanas Contemporaneas: La Subjetividad en la Poesia de Coral Bracho, Myriam Moscana y Kyra Galvan

Pasadena City College
Degree Conferred: Fall 1996
Dissertation Title: La Identidad Nacional Comoconflictividad en el Imaginario Argentino: 1966-1973

1995

Chapman University
Degree Conferred: Fall 1995
Dissertation Title: Photography and Contemporary Spanish Theater: Kaleidoscopic Modes of Dramatic Representation

1994

Georgetown University
Degree Conferred: Spring 1994
Dissertation Title: El Reciclaje de la Historia: Camp, Monstruous y Travestis en el Cine De Pedro Almodovar

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Degree Conferred: Spring 1994

San Diego State University
Degree Conferred: Spring 1994
Dissertation Title: Mimesis y Eros en la Novela Porfiriana

1993

Illinois Wesleyan University
Degree Conferred: Spring 1993
Dissertation Title: Contra la Modernidad: La Dialectica High/Low en La Poesta es Panola Contemporanea

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Degree Conferred: Fall 1993
Dissertation Title: Centro y Margen en la Poesia Contemporanea Venezolana: Codigos Esteticos e Identidad Nacional 

California State University, San Marcos
Degree Conferred: Fall 1993
Dissertation Title: Marriage and Family Relations in the Context of Spanish Theatre of the Golden Age

1992

Lander College
Degree Conferred: Winter 1992
Dissertation Title: Egon Wolff's Theatre During the Chilean Authoritarian Regime

1991

University of Central Florida
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Ideologica y representacion de la revolucion mexicana en el discurso teatral

University of California, Riverside
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
 

California State University, Chico
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: La prostituta en la novela mexicana: Siglo XX

Texas Tech University
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Reading Between the Lines: Self-fictionalization as narrative strategy in la voragine el tunel and los pasos perdidos

Rikkyo University, Toshima-Ku, Tokyo
Degree Conferred: Fall 1991
Dissertation Title: La reapropiacion del indigenismo en la narrativa femenina contemporanea de Mexico

1991

University of Central Florida
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: Ideologica y representacion de la revolucion mexicana en el discurso teatral

University of California, Riverside
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
 

California State University, Chico
Degree Conferred: Winter 1991
Dissertation Title: La prostituta en la novela mexicana: Siglo XX