Area of Specialization:

Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically Hispanic modernismo and Federico Garcia Lorca. He also specializes in gender and cultural theory, comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies.

Selected Publications:

• “This is my Body which will be given up for you: Federico García Lorca´s Amor de Don Perlimplin and the auto sacramental tradition.” Hispania 92.4 (December 2009): 688-695.
• “The Dramatization of Desire: Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca”. Tennessee Williams Annual Review 10 (2009): 81-90.
• “Martyred Masculinities: Saint Sebastian and the Dramas of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca.” Text and Presentation 2008. 5-17.
• "Deseos ocultos en Dom Casmurro" in "La literatura iberoamericana en el 2000: Balances, perspectivas y prospectivas". Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo et al, eds. Salamanca: Ediciones U Salamanca, 2003. 1083-1090.
• Book: Performing the Dandy: Manuel Machado and the Anxiety of Masculinity. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2003
  
• "La muerte de un texto dandy: Nihilismo decadente en el discurso poético de Manuel Machado",  Letras Peninsulares 11.3 ,Winter 1999, 775-90.
• "Cristo enamorado: lectura del soneto ´Mas ya el dolor me vence´del Divino Narciso".  Sor Juana y su mundo, edited by  Beatriz López Portillo, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999, 104-108.
• "Lo nocturno como espacio de la creación artística: Lectura paradigmática del Nocturno´de La canción de las figuras de José María Eguren", Revista de Estudios Hispánicos XXVI.2, 1999, 97-106.
• "The Poetic Text as Dandy: Reading the Poetry of Manuel Machado",  Romance Languages Annual 9, 1998, 406-409.
• "El laberinto" de Manuel Mujica Lainez: Novela picaresca neo-modernista", Hispania 80.3, December 1997, 775-84.