Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Contact
Office location: Comenius 404
Office phone: 610-625-7819
Email: tocado-orvize@moravian.edu
Education
B.A., English Philology (Licenciatura), Universitat Rovira i Virgil, Tarragona, Spain
One year as an International Visiting Student, English and Irish Philology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
One year as a Visiting Student, English Philology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
M.A., English, California State University, Long Beach
One semester study abroad student, English Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
M.A., Hispanic Studies, Villanova University
Ph.D., Hispanic and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University
Recent Conference Presentations
- Round Table Chair / Organizer: "Memory, Maternity, and Exile: The Spanish Civil War in the Light of Female Voices." North American Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, La Salle University, Philadelphia. March 2025.
- "Historical Memory in Cuando ya no quede nadie by Esther López Barceló. North American Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, La Salle University, Philadelphia. March 2025.
- "Memory and Maternity in Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren (2022) by French-Spanish writer Maria Larrea." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington. April 2024.
Recent Teaching
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- SPAN 105: Spanish Language and Culture I (Fall 2025) (Two sections)
- SPAN 110: Spanish Language and Culture II (Fall 2025) (Two sections)
Lafayette College
- SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II (Spring 2025) (Two sections)
- SPAN 313: Texts and Contexts: Iberia (post-1900) (Spring 2025
- SPAN 460: Directed Studies: "Chinese Immigration in Madrid: Usera, the Spanish Chinatown" (Spring 2025)
- SPAN 111: Intermediate Spanish I (Fall 2024) (Two sections)
- SPAN 303: Texts and Contexts: Iberia (post-1900) (Fall 2024)
- SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I (Spring 2024)
- SPAN 111: Intermediate Spanish I (Spring 2024)
Recent Publications
- Rev. of Forty Lost Years, by Rosa Maria Arquimbau. Hispania 105.4 (Dec. 2022). 642-643. Print.
- Rev. of Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist, by Anja Louis and Michelle M. Sharp. Hispania 101.4 (March 2019). 136-138. Print.
- "Pastiche, parodia e ironÃa en La verdad sobre el caso Savolta de Eduardo Mendoza." Hispania 100.3 (September 2017). 379-385. Print.
- "El no-lugar en la urbanización de Últimas noticias del paraÃo de Clara Sánchez." Letras Hispanas 12 (2016). 1-20. Web.