• PhD, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1992. Spanish literature.
  Dissertation title: "Entre el Alef y la mandorla: poética, erótica y mística en la obra de José Angel Valente." Diss., 9305785. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI
• MA, San Francisco State University, 1986. Spanish Literature, concentration in poetry and theater
• Licenciatura University of Havana, Cuba, 1979. History, concentration in Spanish and Latin American History

• SPAN 001: Elementary Spanish I
• SPAN 002: Elementary Spanish II
• SPAN 003: Intermediate Spanish III
• SPAN 004: Intermediate Spanish IV
• SPAN 051: Spanish for Spanish Speakers: Language, Culture and Identity.
• SPAN 101:Composition
• SPAN 140: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• SPAN 172: Voices in Hispanic Poetry
• SPAN 175: The 20th Century Hispanic Novel
• SPAN 180: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures (The Avant-Garde)
• SPAN 180: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures (Literary Experiment and Cultural Pluralsim)
• SPAN 180: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures (Hispanic Travel Literature)
• SPAN 183: Advanced Seminar in Spanish Literature
• SPAN 191-192: Senior Thesis
• LET 161: Women Writers of Contemporary Spain and Latin America
• LET 131/231: Aspects of Hispanic-American Cultures
• LET 162/262 U.S. Latino Literature and Culture
• LET 166/266: National Literatures of Latin America: Cuba and Mexico

Contemporary Latin American and Spanish literature (in particular the avant-garde), contemporary Hispanic poetry, Hispanic women writers, Hispanic theater, feminist theory, Spanish mysticism, Hispanic Jewish literature, U.S. Latino literature