Education
Columbia University, Ph.D. in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, May 2008
Dissertation: “Waging War with Words: Idealized Gender and Iberian Chivalry”
Advisor: Professor Patricia E. Grieve
Committee: Professors Gonzalo Sobejano, Teodolinda Barolini, Susan Crane, and Alessandra Russo
Columbia University, Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, May 2008
The certificate had requirements similar to those of a second M.A. degree, including coursework and a thesis approved by two extradepartmental faculty readers.
Interdisciplinary Essay: “Pedagogy and Society in Thirteenth-Century Iberian Chivalry”
External faculty readers: Professors Adam Kosto (History) and Alan Stewart (English and Comparative Literature)
Columbia University, M.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, May 2002
Masters Thesis: “Falsely-Accused Women in Carolingian Romances”
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. in Comparative Literature, Minor in Spanish, June 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude honors at graduation, UCLA College Honors Program graduate
Senior Thesis: “Amerika: Dystopian Communities in Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka”