Education

• PhD Student, Latin American Literature / Spanish
  Minor: Latino Studies
  2007 – Current
  Florida State University – Tallahassee, Florida
• M.A, Interactive and New Communication Technologies
  Minor: Spanish Literature & Linguistics
  2004
  Florida State University – Tallahassee, Florida
  Graduation interactive project: e-business targeted to people interested in learning Spanish and/or Portuguese abroad. Read the proposal.
• B.A, Advertising and Public Relations
  2001
  Universidad del Zulia – Maracaibo, Venezuela
  Advertising Thesis: advertising campaign for Instalum (construction company in Maracaibo)
  PR Thesis: internal PR campaign for CUNIBE (Colegio Universitario Rafael Belloso Chacín – technical superior institute in Maracaibo.

Awards

• 2009-2010 Faculty Appreciation Award received from the Hispanic/Latino Student Union.
  Florida State University.
• 2007-2008 Dorothy Hoffman Award for an outstanding Graduate Student in Spanish.
  Florida State University

• Los napo runa de la amazonía ecuatoriana. Translation.
  Author: Michael Uzendoski. Ediciones Abya-Yala. Ecuador. 04/2010.
• Poesía, selecciones.
  Grafemas, Boletín electrónico de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Diciembre 2009.
• "Entre los dos turnos." Narrative.
  Letras femeninas, revista de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Invierno 2009.
• "Vos no viste que no lloré por vos" (2007). Narrative.
  Ganador del concurso literario Historias de barrio adentro. Fundación Editorial El perro y la rana. Venezuela. 02/2009.
  Bautizo del libro: 11/2009.

• Just Causes through History and Time: Democrates Secundus vs. The Challenge of Peace. Presented in absentia at the Early American Borderlands conference. Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida. May 12-15, 2010.
• La transcreación de la realidad cubanomiamense: Juego lingüístico entre Raining Backwards y En la Ocho y la Doce de Roberto G. Fernández. Presented at the 8th Cuban Research Institute on Cuban and Cuban American Studies conference. Florida International University, Miami, Florida. February 11-13, 2010.
• Siguiendo el curso del Niágara: El torrente poético de Heredia, Gómez de Avellaneda y Pérez Bonalde. Presented at the 2nd Views and Visions: Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literatures conference. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. October 9-10, 2009.
• Neoplatonismo y androginia: forjadores de indentidad en Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes de Lucía Etxebarria. Presented at the 3rd "Spanishness” in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century international conference. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. May 1-2, 2009.
  
• With Dr. Felipe Korzenny and Maria Gracia Inglessis, New Frontiers For Hispanic Marketing & Advertising - State-of-the Business Alert. Presented at the 11th Annual Marketing to US Hispanics and Latin America conference of the Strategic Research Institute. Miami, Florida. January 25, 2005.

• Key Note Speaker at "We Are One." The Road To Panamericanism in the 21st Century...
  Phi Iotas Alpha Fraternity. FSU Chapter.
  09/2008

• Sigma Delta Pi. Spanish Honor Society. FSU Chapter.
• Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica.
• Modern Language Association.

• 2009-2010 Spanish and Portuguese Division Representative. FSU.
• 2009-2010 Lecture Series Representative. FSU.
• 2009-2010 Webmaster of Sigma Delta Pi. Spanish Honor Society. FSU Chapter.
• 2008-2009 Student Representative for the Arts & Sciences College. FSU.

• Advance Windows applications, Microsoft Office, Internet. Intermediate MAC applications. Web page design (Dreamweaver MX). CD-ROM design (Director MX). Intermediate web page (Flash MX) and CD-ROM animation. PageMaker application.