Education
- Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona. May 2002
- Ph. D. Spanish
Dissertation: “Construcciones alegóricas feministas en la narrativa de mujeres latinoamericanas: 1980-2001”
Director: Dr. David William Foster
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. June 1999
- Doctor in Literature
Dissertation: “Análisis lingüístico y evaluación de las traducciones al inglés de Huasipungo”
Director: Dr. Manuel Corrales Pascual
- University of Birmingham. Birmingham, England. December 1992
- M. A. Special Applications of Linguistics, with a subfield in
Translation Studies
Thesis: “Dialects in Translation: A Study of the English Translations of Jorge Icaza’s Huasipungo”
Director: Dr. Malcolm Coulthard
- University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California. June 1979
- B. A. with Distinction in General Scholarship
Majors: Linguistics and English Literature
Senior Thesis: “Linguistic changes in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
- City College of San Francisco. San Francisco, California. January 1976
- A. A. with Honors
Focus: Literature