University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

Faculty Member, English

Coordinator of Certificate in Film Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

About

I teach Modern and Contemporary Literature, Film, and Media, and courses related to these areas. I am the founder and coordinator of the UPRM Certificate in Film Studies. I am also on the faculty of the Masters Program in Media and Contemporary Culture at Sagrado Corazón University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Film Courses I Teach or Have Taught:
Film History, Film Theory, Contemporary British Film, Film Form, 60s Film Style: Aesthetics and Ideologies, The Documentary, African American Film, Southwest Asia on Film, From Third World To Postcolonial Film.

Literature Courses I Teach: Modern British Literature, The Novel in English Literature, Introduction to the Novel

Grad Courses I Have Taught Recently:
Twenty First Century British Narrative, Narratology, New Media: Theory and Praxis.

Grad Courses I Teach in the Masters Program in Media and Contemporary Culture at Sagrado Corazón:
Seminar on Gender, Seminar on the Subject.

I was/am a member of Masters Thesis committees of students working on the following topics:

Adaptación del texto literario al guión cinematográfico en dos obras del escritor puertorriqueño Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón: Las dos caras de Jano y Desamores (in progress)

The Video Game Narrative Conundrum: An Expanded Study of Narrative Theory in the Study of Video Games (in progress)

Fearful Narrator: A Look at Problems of Reliability in the Storytelling of Ishmael and Dr. Lake Upon the Emergence of The Supernatural in Moby Dick and At the Mountains of Madness (in progress)

A Narratological Analysis of Webcomics (completed August 2010)

Rocking and Reading: Exploring Multimodal Media Literacy While Reading Rock Music and Videos in an ESL College Classroom in Western Puerto Rico (completed August 2010)

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