Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office Location: HE 466
Phone Number: (262) 472-5070
Email Address: parysj@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             1997: B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000: M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
2005: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Spanish Language, Spanish Composition, Spanish for Professions, Latin American Literature

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Spanish 141, 142, 251, 252, 321, 322, Independent Studies

Select Presentations/Publications:                                                                                                                                               "The Body as Weapon: HIV as Revenge." Ciberletras, December 2005.                                                                                           "Eroticism and AIDS: The Confluence of Death, Desire and Writing in Manual Ramos Otero's Invitación al polvo." Cincinnati Romance Review, 2007.                                                                                                                                                                      "La creación de (com)unidad mediante la hibridez: Loco afán: crónicas de sidario por Pedro Lemebel." Juan-Navarro, Santiago, y Joan Torres-Pou, eds. Memoria histórica, genero e interdisciplinariedad. Los estudios culturales hispánicos en e lsiglo XXI. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2008.                                                                                                                                          Forthcoming: "Forging (Comm)unity through Hybridity, HIV, and Marginalization: Pedro Lemebel's Loco afán: Crónicas del sidario." Dissidences, No. 4, Spring 2008.