Professional Organizations and Projects

AHCT

President of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. AHCT promotes appreciation for Spain’s classical theater in production in Spanish and in translation through conferences, publication, a digital text library, a large video collection, and educational resources.

More Than Muses

Co-Executive Editor of More Than Muses. This project collects, transcribes, edits, translates, and shares literary texts by and information about women writers who lived on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. The project aims to incorporate mentored research into undergraduate education.

CARMEL-LIT

Team Member of the research project Carmelitas Escritoras. This project seeks to demarcate, edit, and study works by female Carmelite writers after the death of Saint Teresa with appropriate historical, sociological, and cultural contextualization.

Teatro Clássico Português no Feminino

Steering Committee Member of the research group Teatro clássico português no feminino: dramaturgas dos séculos XVI a XIX. This group works to promote and disseminate research about Portuguese women as producers and consumers of theater from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Spanish Golden Age Theater

Co-Mentor of Brigham Young Unversity’s Spanish Golden Age Theater Project (2002-2011). This project led to the performance of eight full-length plays and many scenes at elementary and secondary school assemblies, university campuses and theater festivals throughout the southwestern United States and in Mexico, as well as the creation of pedagogical resources and teacher workshops.

GEMELA

A Founding Mother of the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800). GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women’s cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800. The organization distributes information and knowledge about women and their role as cultural producers.

Work in Progress

I have had the privilege of participating in Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake’s public art project Work in Progress on two occasions. In March 2017, I got to create and paint the stencil of one of my favorite Medieval mystics, Hildegard of Bingen. Then in September 2024, I prepared the stencil of Jannutal Ferdous Ivy, an amazing filmmaker, writer, and disability rights activist.