Associate Professor, Department of Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University, 2001

Assistant Director and Professor, Summer Program in Cusco, Peru, Northwestern University, 1998.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish (cross-listings in English, Liberal Studies, and the Literature Program), Emory University, 1994-95.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oregon, 1993-94.

Lecturer, Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, Stanford University, 1992.

San Francisco State University Summer Stipend, 1996.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers ("Culture and Democracy: Emergent American Literatures"), 1995.

Walsh Medal (for top International Politics student), Georgetown University, 1985.

Graduate Seminar: Theories of Literary Value

Graduate Seminar: Twentieth Century Comparative American Literary Studies

Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Graduate Study in Comparative Literature

Fantasy in World Literature

Myths of the World

Introduction to World Literature

Directed Readings: Short Story Theory; Contemporary Turkish Novel; El cuento rioplatense.

Language and Its Discontents: Modern Theories of Language's Multivalence

Modern American Literature: The Making of Americans

Europe and the Americas (Program in Cultures, Ideas and Values)

Reading Spanish America: The 'Boom' and 'post-Boom' Novel in Translation

Masterpieces of American Literature (Teaching Assistant for Prof. Albert Gelpi)

The Evolution of Western Culture, Prof. St. Clair Drake; African and African-American Musical Idioms, Dr. Michael Britt; Learning about Conflict and Conflict Resolution from Literary and Religious Texts, Prof. René Girard; Sociobiology and Oppression: Sexism, Nationalism, Racism, Prof. Dow Woodward.

Writing about/Written by Popular Culture (self-designed two-quarter composition sequence combining the study of writing with analysis of U.S. mass culture)

English Renaissance Survey (Teaching Assistant for Prof. Stephen Orgel)

Which Difference Makes a Difference? William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, and the Creation of Literary Value.

"Intellectual Free Trade." Essay on Comparative American Literary Studies; accepted by editor of special issue of American Quarterly, forthcoming 1998.

Review of The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine. Southern Humanities Review, forthcoming 1998.

"'Better than Plato'; 'Like Terminator II': Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in the 'Great Works' Classroom." Magazine (Fall 1997): 194-203.

Review of Constituting Americans. Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form by Priscilla Wald. Southern Humanities Review 31 (1997): 378-80.

"Chased by Life, Politics, Demons; Flying to Fiction." Introduction to special issue on Mario Vargas Llosa. Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 1997): 9-14.

"The Rise of Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison." Cultural Institutions of the Novel, Eds. Deidre Lynch and William B. Warner, Duke University Press, 1996. 129-56.

Entries on Spike Lee, Thelonius Monk, Toni Morrison, Anna Deveare Smith, and Cecil Taylor. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture. African American Culture. Ed. Sandra Adell. Gale Research, 1996.

Review of Conquest of the New Word: Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas by Johnny Payne. Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995): 292-95.

"The Postmodern Monster in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy and Luisa Valenzuela's La cola de lagartija (The Lizard's Tail)." American Comparative Literature Association Congress, "Literary and Cultural Translation and Exchange," 1998 (proposed).

"'Wherein the South Differs from the North': William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, and the Non-Cosmopolitan Aesthetic." American Comparative Literature Association Congress, "New Worlds for Old," 1997.

"On the Border of Being: Community and Subjectivity in José María Arguedas's Los Ríos Profundos (Deep Rivers) and Arturo Islas's Migrant Souls." Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, "The Borderlands and Beyond," 1997 (also accepted for XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, "Literature as Cultural Memory," 1997).

"'Harmony Imposed on so Many Mysterious Instruments': José María Arguedas's Los Ríos Profundos (Deep Rivers) and the Hybrid Subject." American Comparative Literature Association Congress, "Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies," 1996.

"Living with Your Head in the Lion's Mouth: Toni Morrison, Senior Editor, Random House, Inc." Conference on "Print Culture in a Diverse America," 1995.

"'Wherein the South Differs from the North': On Comparative American Literary Studies." Invited lecture. San Francisco State University, 1995.

"'Better than Plato'; 'Like Terminator II': Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in the 'Great Works' Classroom." American Studies Association Convention, 1994. (Also presented as part of the SFSU Comparative Literature Graduate Association Lecture Series, 1995).

"Personal Taste/Public Canon: Carlos Barral's 'tertulia perpetua' and the Latin American 'Boom' Novel." "Literature and Society: Rethinking Tradition," Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, Columbia University, 1992.

"Tracing Barcelona's 'Chaotic' Role in the Latin American 'Boom' Novel." Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, 1991.

"What is Comparative Literature? What is Critical Theory?" Presentation to San Francisco State University Classics proseminar, March 1997.

"The Change in Intellectual Paradigms from East/West to North/South." Panelist, Emory University, Nov. 1994.

"This is not a story to pass on: Luisa Valenzuela's La cola de lagartija." Guest Lecture, "Introduction to Hispanic Literature," University of Oregon, March 1994.

"The Film La historia oficial and Argentine Culture during the Proceso." Guest Lecture, "Introduction to Hispanic Literature," University of Oregon, Feb. 1994.

"History, Story, and Genealogy in Morrison's Beloved." Guest Lecture, "Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction," University of Oregon, Jan. 1994.

"Creole Passing in New Orleans: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's 'Stones of the Village.'" Guest Lecture, "American Realism and Naturalism," University of Oregon, Jan. 1994.

"Delivering Dead Letters: Melville's 'Bartleby' and Olson's 'The Post Office.'" Guest Lecture, "Europe and the Americas," Stanford, Nov. 1992.

"Rolando Hinojosa-Smith's 'Sometimes it Just Happens that Way; That's All': An Introduction to Chicano Literature." San Francisco Public High Schools, May 1991.

"Re-reading The Far Side: An Introduction to Mass Culture." San Francisco Public High Schools, May 1991.

"The Far Side: 'surrealistic,' 'uniquely unique,' 'daring'--conservative?" Guest Lecture, Foothills Junior College, March 1989.

"La Trompeta de Deyá" (The Trumpet of Deyá). Mario Vargas Llosa, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1997. 25-34.

Co-editor for special issue on Mario Vargas Llosa, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1997.

Imagining Worlds (Jon and Marjorie Ford). Wrote bio-bibliographical endnotes for a multi-cultural, freshman composition reader, 1992-1993.

Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation (Mary Pratt). Editorial work, 1989-90.

Writing consultant, Georgetown. Evaluated professors' course proposals for "writing intensive" courses, 1985.

Co-organized and co-moderated 12-person seminar on "Inter-American Crossings" for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Congress, 1997.

Co-organized "Where do We Go From Here? Careers for Language and Literature Majors," 1997.

Curriculum Review and Approval Committee, San Francisco State University, 1996-present.

Academic Senate, San Francisco State University, 1996-present (Senate Elections Committee, Oct 1996-present).

Faculty Advisor for Comparative Literature Graduate Association, 1996-present.

California Pre-Doctoral Program Mentor (for under-represented students), San Francisco State University, 1995-present.

Teaching Assistant training, "Myths of the World," San Francisco State University, 1995-present.

Faculty Development Committee (English), San Francisco State University, 1995-1996.

Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department, Stanford, 1991-92.

"Global Economies/Local Ethnicities" conference, Stanford. Organizational support, Nov. 1991.

Participant, the Herald Project. Meeting with San Francisco public high school teachers to discuss new approaches to the humanities and lecturing in several high schools, Spring 1991.

Organized discussion groups on "Professionalism and Professionalization" and "The Marginalization of American Intellectuals," Mellon Fellows Conference on Teaching, June 1989.

Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, English Department, Stanford, 1987-89.