University of Pennsylvania
Comparative Literature and Classics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS
[2014] Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
[2014] Graduate Certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
Master’s Project: Medievalism in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico as a Case Study
[2010] M.A. in Comparative Literature (en route), University of Massachusetts at Amherst
[2006] B.A. in Comparative Literature and French, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
TESIS DOCTORAL
Arthur’s Heirs: Situating Medieval Welsh, Iberian, and Scandinavian Arthurian Texts in their Literary and Historical Contexts
BECAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
[2012-13] Penn Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence through Diversity, University of Pennsylvania
[2012-13] Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst
[2011] Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture & United States’ Universities Travel Grant, University of Minnesota
[2011] Graduate School Research Grant, University of Massachusetts (2011)
[2011] College of Humanities and Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Massachusetts
PUBLICACIONES
[2015] «Arthur’s Heirs: Comparing the Nordic and Spanish Tristan,» AMEA, International Journal of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages 2 (2015): 185-213.
ENCUENTROS CIENTÍFICOS
INVITACIONES A DAR CHARLAS
[2016] «Chivalric Romance and Cervantes: Arthuriana in Castile (c. 1100-1600),» Shakespeare and Cervantes in Conversation, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey
[2015] «Vikings of the Round Table: Ambivalence and Kingship in the Riddarasögur,» Medieval Renaissance Seminar, University of Pennsylvania English Department
[2015] «Remapping the Diffusion of Arthurian Literature in Medieval Europe,» State University of New York, Oswego
[2014] «The Transcultural Implications of the Tristan Legend for England, Iceland, and Norway,» University of Massachusetts, Boston
[2012] «Systems Theory and Medieval Arthurian Literature,» Translation, Cross-cultural Communication, and the Media, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PONENCIAS EN CONGRESOS
[2016] «The Arthur of the Welsh: Brut y Brenhinedd as a rewriting of the Historia Regum Brittaniae,» Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy
[2015] «Remapping the Transmission of Arthurian Literature in Medieval Europe,» (Executive Committee for the Division on French Medieval Language and Literature Division Panel: «Mapping the Arthurian World») Modern Language Association Convention
[2015] «The Transcultural Implications of the Old-Norse Icelandic Tristan Romance for England, Iceland, and Norway,» (Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature Division Panel: «Medieval Romance») Modern Language Association Convention
[2014] «Reappropriating Wales, Reappropriating Arthur: Brut y Brenhinedd as a rewriting of the Historia Regum Brittaniae,» Celtic Studies Association of North America (2014)
[2012] «Adapting Arthur: Cultural Crisis in Medieval Arthurian Literature,» Panel Chair, American Comparative Literature Association
[2013] «Constructing a Spanish Tristan Identity in Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd,» (Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Division Panel: «Iberia Unbound») Modern Language Association Convention (2013)
[2013] «Translating Arthur: Ívens saga and Möttuls saga in a Scandinavian Context,» Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study [SASS]
[2013] «Arthur’s Heirs: Presenting kingship in Ívens saga and Möttuls saga,» American Comparative Literature Association
[2011] «Arthur’s Heirs: Comparing the Nordic and Spanish Tristan,» North and South Connections, University of Cantabria at Spain