1 ALEJANDRO LEE, Ph.D., MLIS Department of Modern Languages and Cultures 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, California 90405 [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Spanish, Santa Monica College 2016-Present Associate Professor of Spanish, Central University 2014-2016 Assistant Professor of Spanish, Central Washington University 2008-2014 Tutor of Spanish, Academic Advancement Program, UCLA 2007-2008 Full-time Lecturer in Spanish, University of Southern California 2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2004-2005

EDUCATION

University of California, (UCLA) Master in Library and Information Science 2008 Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures 2005 M.A. Spanish 1997 B.A. French and Spanish (Honors) 1994 Université de Paris, France Fall 1992 Scripps College Program in Paris Monterey Institute for International Studies, California Summer 1993 Intensive Mandarin Chinese (intermediate) National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan 1988-1989 Intensive Mandarin Chinese (beginning)

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

“The Process of Adoption, Implementation and Institutionalization of Spanish Heritage Language Programs at Two U.S. Regional Comprehensive Universities,” with Alegría Ribadeneira, for A Handbook on Heritage Language Education: From Innovation to Program Building, ed. Olga Kagan, Maria Carreira, Claire Chik. New York: Routledge, 2017. 379-93. “Polly Bemis (1853-1933)” and “Chinese Immigration to South America,” Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Ed. Jonathan H. X. Lee. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2015: 18; 53-55. “At the Margins of the Nation: Chinese Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction.” Amerasia Journal 38.2 (2012): 85-101. “Arora, Shirley Lease. (1930- ).” Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore (3 vols). Vol. 1. Ed. María Herrera-Sobek. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2012: 56-58. “‘Preferible es un hijo deforme que una docena de hijas sabias como Buda’: refranes y resistencia en Hija de la fortuna de Isabel Allende.” Proverbium 26 (2009): 187-216. "’Matar dos pájaros de un tiro’: Usos de la paremia en el Diálogo de la lengua de Juan de Valdés." Proverbium 25 (2008): 207-18.

2 Book Reviews

Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater. By Richard Young and Odile Cisneros. Hispania 95.2 (June 2012): 363-64. Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture and Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond. By Ignacio López-Calvo. Journal of Chinese Overseas 5 (May 2009): 215-18. Proverb: A Handbook. By Wolfgang Mieder. Mester XXXIV (2005): 205-07.

COURSES TAUGHT

Beginning and intermediate Spanish Spanish for heritage learners Composition and grammar Composition and grammar for heritage learners Advanced composition and grammar Conversation Introduction to Hispanic Literature Contemporary Spanish American and US Latino Literatures and Cultures Spanish American Short Story Latin American Theater Medical Spanish Business Spanish Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chinese diaspora in Spanish America Contemporary Spanish American literature and culture Paremiology Spanish for heritage language learners U.S. Latino Literatures

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI) grant, June 2019 Santa Monica College, Faculty Development Grant to attend the Critical Race Studies in Education Association Annual Conference (CRSEA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 30-31 May 2019 Santa Monica College, Faculty Development Grant to attend the California Community College Foreign Language Council Conference, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California, 20 Oct. 2018 Santa Monica College, Global Council grant, "East Side Sushi: Film Screening and Discussion with director Anthony Lucero and master sushi chef Andy Matsuda," 27 April 2017 (with Professor Keiko Tsurumi) Faculty Summer Institute, Santa Monica College, 1-11 August 2016 UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center, Travel Grant to attend ACTFL, San Diego, California, 2015 UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center, Travel Grant to attend “Heritage Language Teacher Workshop,” Los Angeles, California, Summers 2010-2015

3 UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center, Travel Grant to attend the Startalk Conference, Portland, Oregon, Fall 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University, Summer Teaching Innovation Grant, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University, Travel Grants to attend conferences, 2009-2015 National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Fellowship, Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, Summer 2003 Writing in the Americas Summer Institute, Boston University, scholarship to attend the institute, Summer 2002 UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, travel grant to attend the “2001 CIBER Conference on Language, Communication and Global Management,” San Diego, California, Spring 2001 Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Los Angeles, California), scholarship for cultural studies in Florence, Italy, Summer 2000 UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, travel grant to attend the conference “Language and Communication for World Business and the Professions,” San Diego, Spring 1999 UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, travel grant to attend the workshop “Business Spanish for Professors of Spanish” at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Summer 1996 UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Departmental First Year Graduate Student Fellowship, 1994-1995 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, one-year scholarship for language studies at the Mandarin Training Center, 1989-1990

AWARDS AND HONORS

Student Transition and Academic Resources (STAR), Honored Faculty by David Sedano and Vania Zuno, Central Washington University, 17 May 2016 Honoring Our Professor’s Excellence (HOPE) Award, National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), Central Washington University, nomination by Jasmine Gonzalez, 4 May 2016 Inspiration Leadership Certificate Award, Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT), Oct. 2015 Student Transition and Academic Resources (STAR), Honored Faculty by Maura Ruiz and Gabriela Martinez, Central Washington University, 15 May 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University, 12 May 2014 Honoring Our Professor’s Excellence (HOPE) Award, National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), Central Washington University, nomination by Melinda Gallagher, 21 May 2013 Student Transition and Academic Resources (STAR), Honored Faculty by Alejandro Cabrera-Villa, Central Washington University, 16 May 2013 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Collegiality Award, 1999-2000, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Gabriela Mistral Award, Sigma Delta Pi, 1994,

4 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Poesía, code switching e identidades," California Community College Foreign Language Council, East Los Angeles College, 20 October 2018 "Chino Latinos: Diasporic Asians in Latin America for the 'Passport to Asia'," Arizona State University, West campus, Glendale, Arizona, 9 April 2018 (Invited speaker) “Implementing a Heritage Language Program: Lessons from the Trenches,” Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, , Los Angeles, 16 Feb. 2018 “Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in Santa Monica College,” with Lourdes Arévalo, Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, 17 Feb. 2018 “Chinese Panamanian Literature,” 4th Annual Symposium on Asians in the Americas, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 Nov. 2015 “Ejercicios de redacción en una clase de estudiantes de lengua heredada,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, , La Verne, California, 25 Apr. 2015 “¡A escribir! Estrategias de redacción para estudiantes de lengua heredada a nivel universitario,” co-presentation with Edward Pinto (heritage student), Washington Association for Language Teaching and Confederation in Oregon For Language Teaching Bi-State Conference, WAFLT-COFLT Bi-State Conference, Vancouver, Washington, 10 Oct. 2014 “The State of Spanish HL[Heritage Language] Teaching” in the panel “Teaching HL Learners at the College Level: Results of a National Survey by the National Heritage Language Resource Center,” Second International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, 7 Mar. 2014 “Writing Tasks: From the Personal to the Academic” in the panel “From Fragmented to Multifaceted: An NHLRC Summer Teacher Workshop Project,” Second International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, 7 Mar. 2014 “’Se los encargo’: Educating Heritage Learners,” College of Arts and Humanities Speaker Series, Central Washington University, 26 Feb. 2014 “Se puede y se debe: Heritage Language Education at Central Washington University” with heritage students Itzia Luna, Isaac Meza and Edward Pinto, Washington Association for Language Teaching spring regional conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 22 Feb. 2014 “Sugerencias pedagógicas y prácticas propias para los Spanish Heritage Learners (SHL)” with Professor María Gillman and CWU heritage students Sergio Flores Vélez, Amber Goodrich and Maura Ruiz, Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) spring regional conference, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington, 20 Apr. 2013 “Voces de nuestros estudiantes de lengua heredada” with CWU heritage students Sergio Flores Vélez, Amber Goodrich and Maura Ruiz, and Professor María Gillman (University of Washington-Seattle), Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) spring regional conference, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington, 20 Apr. 2013 “Chino Latinos: Not All Latinos Look the Same,” Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington, 15 Oct. 2012. Invited talk. “Recreating the Nation: Como un mensajero tuyo by Mayra Montero,” Symposium on Asians in the Americas, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 29 Sept. 2012 “Heritage Language Learners: What to Expect,” Second Annual Wasatch Front, World Languages Experience, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, 10 Feb. 2012. Invited talk. Guest panelist, “Understanding Heritage Language Learners: Student Voices from the

5 NHLRC/Startalk Multimedia Workshop,” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov. 2011 “The Chinese and Chilenidad in Roberto Castillo Sandoval’s Muriendo por la dulce patria mía,” Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of California, San Diego, 4 Nov. 2011 “De las jarchas a la poesía chicana,” Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT), Pasco, Washington, 14 Oct. 2011 “Chinese Coolies in Hispanic Literary Texts,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Vancouver, British Columbia, 3 Apr. 2011 “Actividades comunicativas para la clase de español,” Washington Association for Language Teaching and Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching Bi-State Conference (WAFLT-COFLT), Seattle, Washington, 9 Oct. 2010 “De opio, suicidios y chinos en Panamá,” Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), , Azusa, California, 17 Apr. 2010 “The Suicide of the Chinese in Panama in ‘El jardín de Fuyang’ by Rosa María Britton and El caballo de oro by Juan David Morgan,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference, Austin, Texas, 8-11 Apr. 2010 “Solteros y maduros, corteses y valientes: representación de la masculinidad en el refranero hispano,” Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Conference, , Torrance, California, 6-7 Nov. 2009 Guest panelist, “Ethnic Studies and Archival Research: Voices and Footprints,” Archival Education Research Institute (AERI) 2009, UCLA, 6-11 July 2009 “Proverbial Chinese Misogyny in Isabel Allende’s Hija de la fortuna (Daughter of Fortune)”, 4th Annual Gender Symposium, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 5-6 Nov. 2008 “The Hermeneutics of Chinese Characters in Latin American Literature” (Keynote speaker), Asian Diaspora in Latin America Student Conference, California State University, Fullerton, 2-3 May 2008 “Chinos, negros y cubanos: usos del refranero multicultural en Monkey Hunting de Cristina Garcia,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, University of California, Riverside, California, 10-11 Nov. 2006 “’Preferible es un hijo deforme que una docena de hijas sabias como Buda’: usos de la paremia en Hija de la fortuna de Isabel Allende,” Orientalisms and the Chinese Diaspora in the Americas Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 21-22 Apr. 2006 “Ecos literarios sinocalifornianos y sinocubanos en Monkey Hunting de Cristina Garcia,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, , Malibu, California, 13 Nov. 2005 “Poesía oriental y defensa nacional: las armas y letras en Monkey Hunting de Cristina Garcia,” International Conference on Arms and Letters in Literature and the Visual Arts, University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 28 Oct. 2005 “A las armas cubanas por las letras chinas: Las armas y las letras en Monkey Hunting de Cristina Garcia,” Visions and Revisions: Breakthrough Moments in Hispanic and Lusophone Thought, UCLA,15 Apr. 2005 "De chinos de la China a chinos aplatanados: hibridez cultural y étnica en lo cubano," Transformations: Re-imagining Identity, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA, 16 Apr. 2004 "Eustorgio Chong Ruiz's Los chinos en la sociedad panameña: An Essay about the Chinese in Panama,” International Conference on the Literatures of the Chinese Diaspora, San Francisco, California, 30 Nov. 2002

6 WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

“El español como lengua heredada, Pitzer College, 20 Apr. 2018 “Heritage Language Education,” IV Encontro de Formaçao e Aperfeiçoamento de Professores de Português na Costa Oeste, Consulate General of Brazil, San Francisco, California, 19 Aug. 2017 “Teacher development and program initiatives,” Heritage Teacher Workshop, National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA, 29 June 2017 “¡Qué cool es ser bilingüe!,” with Lourdes Arévalo, Latino Center, Santa Monica College, 8 Nov. 2016 “Socio-affective Issues,” Startalk Heritage Teacher Workshop, National Heritage Language Resource Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 28 June 2015 “Presentación de experiencias en el aula [de estudiantes de lengua de herencia],” Jornada de desarrollo profesional para profesores de español como lengua de herencia en “high school,” organized by Center for Spanish Studies and the University of Washington’s Spanish and Portuguese Division, hosted by Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington, 17 May 2014. Invited talk. “Best practices in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom,” in collaboration with CWU heritage students (Estrella Casio, Alejandro Espinoza, Sergio Flores Vélez, Maura Ruiz and Andrés Ramos), Heritage Language Learners in the Spanish Classroom workshop, organized and sponsored by the Center for Spanish Studies and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Juan de Fuca chapter, Bishop Blanchet High School, Seattle, Washington, 2 Feb. 2013. Invited talk. “Speaking in Tongues,” “Heritage Speakers,” “Life in California,” “Planning Lessons According to California Standards,” and “Waiting for Superman,” Adaptación a la diversidad lingüística y cultural de la escuela californiana, California-Spain Visiting Teachers Program, Centro Español de Recursos de Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 27-29 July 2011 “De las jarchas a la poesía chicana: recursos para la clase de español como lengua heredada,” Heritage Language Learners: una realidad y un reto, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington, 14 May 2011 “Popurrí de actividades para la clase de español: lengua, cultura y literatura,” Center for Spanish Studies/University of Washington, Seattle, 13 Nov. 2010 “Workshop for Teachers of Spanish as a Heritage Language in Washington,” Startalk/NHLRC Heritage Language Teacher Workshop, UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 21 July 2011 “Actividades comunicativas para la clase de español,” Washington Association for Language Teaching and Confederation of Oregon for Foreign Language Teaching (WAFLT-COFLT) Bi-State Conference, Seattle, Washington, 8-9 Oct. 2010 “Digital Collaboration with GoogleDocs,” Educational Technology Center, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 29 May 2009 “Effective Online Searches,” Instructional Technology Consultants Training, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, 7 May 2008 “Propuesta para actividades comunicativas” (with Marcela Domínguez), Spanish Resource Center (General Consulate of Spain), University of Southern California, 5 May 2006 “Técnicas y actividades para desarrollar la escritura en primer año” (with Marcela Domínguez), American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), UCLA, 8 Apr. 2006 “Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies,” Spanish and French in a Global Culture, UCLA International Institute, Summer 2005

7 "Low Tech Visual Aids,” Campus-wide Foreign Language TA Orientation, UCLA, Fall 1998, 2000-2004 “Use of Video and Listening Tapes,” Campus-wide Foreign Language TA Orientation, UCLA, Fall 2002 “Usos del Internet en la enseñanza del español,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, , Pasadena, California, 28 Oct. 2000

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instructional Technology Consultant (French and Francophone Studies, German Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies), UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, 2003-2004 Translator, UCLA Center for the Study of the 18th Century, XI International Congress on the Enlightenment, Spring 2002-Summer 2003 Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Professors Shirley Arora, Verónica Cortínez and Gerardo Luzuriaga, 2000-2004 Co-author, “¿Hay alguien en este hospital que hable español?: An Intermediate Course in Medical Spanish,” Spanish 197 Reader, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fall 1999 Spanish Language Placement Interviewer for MBA Students, UCLA Language Resource Center, 1995-1998

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

SMC Men of Color Mentoring, 2017-Present Hombre a Hombre, Faculty advisor, 2017-Present University Research Scholars Academy, Academic advisor, 2016

CWU Male Success Initiative, Steering committee, Summer 2015-2016 Cultural Ambassadors in Spain program recruiter, Apr. 2009-2017 “Beyond Yellowface: Race, Gender and Performance in Hollywood Movies Set in Hawai’i” by Ms. Joy T. Taylor, Washington State University-Pullman, organizer and host, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 2 May 2012 “Speaking in Tongues,” co-presenter with Dr. Terrence McCain (Education), Im/migration, Globalization and Identity Film Series, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 26 Oct. 2011 “The Center for Spanish Studies at the UW in Washington State and the Cultural Ambassadors Program,” Eva González-Abad, Center for Spanish Studies and Consejería de Educación, Embajada de España, Guest speaker and recruiter for the Cultural Ambassadors in Spain Program, organizer and host, 13 Oct. 2011 Center for Spanish Studies, Workshop for Teachers of Spanish by Eva González-Abad, Director of the Center for Spanish Studies (Seattle), organizer and host, 15 May 2010. Lunar New Year Celebration, Asia Pacific Studies and Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) House, volunteer, 8-9 Feb. 2010 National Association for Chicana and Studies (NACCS) Pacific Northwest Foco Regional Conference, Planning Committee Member, Jan.-Oct. 2009 “Diversity with Film,” Diversity Education Center, Beauty of the Fight documentary screening with screenwriter Rick Clark, organizer and moderator, 3 Nov. 2009

8 Guest speaker, “Las naos de China: Connecting the World,” Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) House, Kamola Hall, 19 October 2009 Casa Latina Faculty Liaison, March-July 2009 Center for Spanish Studies and Consejería de Educación, Embajada de España, Dr. Josefa Báez- Ramos’s visit to campus, organizer, 6 Apr. 2009 Safe Space program participant, Fall 2008-Present

DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE SERVICE

SMC Spanish Liaison for the Modern Languages Tutoring Lab, 2018-Present Student Instructional Support Committee, Fall 2016-Present Spanish Club, Academic advisor, 2017-Present Japanese Search Committee, 2018-2019 Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Week, 5 March 2019 Alpha Mu Gamma Second Foreign Language Week, 8 March 2018

CWU Assessment Committee, Department of World Languages, Fall 2014-2016 Spanish Club Advisor, Department of World Languages, Fall 2014-2016 Scholarship Committee, Department of World Languages, Fall 2014-2016 “Dare to Dream Academy” (heritage students César Apáez, Esther Cárdenas-Estrella, Sergio Madrid Madrid, José Sánchez and Vania Zuno represented the department at the student recruitment fair), Central Washington University, 10 June 2014 Department of World Languages Library Representative, Fall 2008-Present Duvall/Wege Scholarship in German Language Committee, Fall 2013 Guest panelist, “Letters of recommendation,” “Applying to Graduate Schools in the Arts and Humanities” Workshop, Central Washington University, 2 Nov. 2010 Instituto Cervantes, Aula Cervantes Seattle Director Carmen Flores Pla’s campus visit, organizer, 18 Nov. 2009 Guest speaker in Dr. Rodney Bransdorfer’s “Spanish Phonetics” (Spanish 385), “El español del Caribe,” 2 June 2009 Foreign Language Scholarship Committee, Winter 2009 Spanish Club and Tertulia co-advisor, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 World Languages Day Committee, May 2009, May 2012

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Co-host with Professor Yukiko Tsuboi, "Spring Workshops," Modern and Classical Language Association of Southern California (MCLASC), Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California, 16 Mar. 2019 Editorial Committee Member, Chinese Historical Society of America's History and Perspectives, 2015-Present. CLEP Spanish Test Development Committee, The College Board, New York, New York, Summer 2014-Present (Chair of the Committee beginning July 2019) Session organizer and presider, “Spanish Heritage Language Education at Community Colleges in the Greater Los Angeles Area,” Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, 17 Feb. 2018

9 Host, spring conference of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Santa Monica College, 22 Apr. 2017 Co-organizer and host, Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) spring regional conferences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 2010-2012, 2015-2016. Washington State Seal of Biliteracy Committee, Summer 2014 Co-organizer, Third Symposium on Asians in the Americas, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1-3 Oct. 2014. Leader assistant, “Workshop on teaching mixed classes” by Dr. María Carreira, National Heritage Language Resource Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 6 Mar. 2014. Special session organizer and chair, “Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d,” 111th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), San Diego, California, 1 Nov. 2013. Co-organizer, Second Symposium on Asians in the Americas, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, 27-28 Sept. 2013. Session organizer and presider, “Heritage Language Education at the University of Washington,” with panelists Professors Nyan-Ping Bi, María Gillman and Soo-hee Kim, COFLT-WAFLT Bi-State Conference, Vancouver, Washington, 12 Oct. 2012. Co-organizer, Symposium on Asians in the Americas, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 28-29 Sept. 2012. Host and conference chair, Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) Spring Regional Conference, Ellensburg, Washington, Spring 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015. Central Washington Vice President, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Juan de Fuca chapter, 2010-2012. Special session organizer and chair, “Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d,” 109th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Scripps College, Claremont, California, 6 Nov. 2011. Co-organizer, with Center for Spanish Studies, Heritage Language Learners: una realidad y un reto workshop, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington, 14 May 2011. Special guest, “First Seminar for Returning North American Language and Culture Assistants,” sponsored by Consejería de Educación, Consulado General de España, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 10 Sept. 2010 Indexer, Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), 2008-2012

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Modern and Classical Language Association of Southern California (MCLASC)

LANGUAGES

Spanish (native speaker); English (fluent); French (intermediate); Italian (intermediate); Portuguese (intermediate); Mandarin (intermediate)