Teaching

15+ years of teaching experience in ESL, writing and communication, English literature, writing coaching, and writing center consultant at top higher education institutions in the United States and Mexico.

I aim to empower learners of all levels and learning styles to develop writing and communication skills that impact their academic and professional careers.

Writing and Communication

I facilitate the use of writing and communication as a tool for critical thinking as an essential skill in students’ academic and professional careers.

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, I guided high-achieving students primarily in STEM majors in developing multimodal communication projects, including oral presentations, video essays, websites, and interactive maps. In my courses, I bridge social, literary, and humanities content, such as Shakespeare, international film, and social marginalization, with crucial communication and technical skills that students could apply to their academic and professional careers.

For one of my Writing and Communication courses at Georgia Tech, students used ArcGIS StoryMaps to develop an interactive map of one of Shakespeare’s plays. In this sample, I  used StoryMaps to show the relevance of geographical references in The Merchant of Venice.

English as a Second Language

Through my ESL instruction, I aim to contribute to establishing connections between Spanish and English-speaking cultures and institutions.

I have taught beginner to proficiency level ESL courses in business and higher education settings in in-person, online, and hybrid environments, with a specialization in adult learners.

I focus on learner-centered instruction by guiding learners through developing language skills for multimodal professional communication through engaging materials, personalized feedback, and progress monitoring.

Writing Consultation

As Writing Consultant and Co-director of the Brandeis University Writing Center, I fostered an inclusive environment supporting graduate, undergraduate, international, and domestic students and staff through productive and respectful conversations.

Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature

The early modern period seems, at first glance, to be removed from students’ experience. In response, I present Shakespeare’s works as part of a broader cultural landscape, and I show the relevance of his plays to our present understanding of topics like gender, politics, race, and colonialism.

I am driven to bring Latin American literature, film, and culture to diverse audiences in alternative educational settings. For the Boston Pre-Release Center School of Reentry, I designed a college credit-bearing course for incarcerated individuals of diverse backgrounds and academic histories. In this course, titled “Monstruos, Demonios y Sueños. Latin-American Fantasy in Short Stories and Films,” participants engaged with social issues in Spanish-speaking countries through fantasy narratives.

As Instructor and Workshop facilitator for the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, I designed and led workshop sessions and created a handbook to guide participants through their educational paths, as part of the Partakers Empowerment Program, which fosters community reintegration of previously incarcerated individuals.

I have taught Shakespeare and other literature and film courses to adults aged fifty and above in the Boston area at Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (BOLLI). This was a wonderful experience that posed interesting challenges, as participants had not read Shakespeare for many years, and they found the language and poetry of the plays intimidating. I guided them through the text by contextualizing difficult references and showing scenes from different film adaptations.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Brandeis University

•  “University Writing Seminar: Monstruos, Demonios y Sueños. Latin-American Fantasy in Short Stories and Films”
• “University Writing Seminar: Whose side of the story? Narrators and Perspective on Page and Screen”

School of Reentry, Boston Pre-Release Center

• “Monstruos, Demonios y Sueños. Latin-American Fantasy in Short Stories and Films”

Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

• “The Remains of the Day: history, memory and emotion in Ishiguro’s novel and Ivory’s film”
• “Henry V and Hamlet in Words, Pictures, and Human Life”
• “The King is Dead: Macbeth in Renaissance England”

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

• Shakespeare
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
• English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
• Writing and Composition in English
• English as a Second Language (Beginner to Advanced)