Service

(selected)

To the Profession

Reviewer:

  • Contributing Reviewer for Sponsored and Special Sessions of the International Congress on Medieval Studies (2021-2022).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Romance Quarterly (2021-).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, La Corónica. (March 1, 2017 – Present).
  • Reviewer for the following journals:  Medieval Encounters, La Corónica, Jornadas de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos, History Research Journal, Letras Hispanas.
  • Referee, South Central MLA – Mock Interviews. (2016).
  • Editorial Board Member, History Research Journal. (2014).
  • Reviewer, Letras Hispanas. (2013).
  • Assistant Editor, Mester. (2003 – 2005).
  • External reviewer for a candidate for tenure or promotion (2017, 2018, 2019)

Service to an organization:

  • Member, MLA Delegate Assembly. (January 2017 – 2020, re-elected 2021-2023).
  • Member and President of MLA, GLC General Linguistics Forum (2015-2020).
  • President, Texas Medieval Association. (2014 – 2015; 2018 – 2019).
  • Vice President, Texas Medieval Association. (2013 – 2014; 2017 – 2018).
  • Co-organizer, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 23, San Antonio, United States. (January 2016 – August 2017).

Conference Panels Organized/Chaired

  • “Vestiges of Movement in the Iberian Peninsula” Medieval Institute (2019-cancelled due to Covid 19, rescheduled for 2020).
    “Linguistics and Social Media.” MLA (2019).
  • “Creating new Histories: Contemporary Traditions and The Fictionalization of the Medieval”. Medieval Institute (2018).
    “Linguistics and Social Media” MLA (2018).
  • “Invented Languages (Auxiliary and Constructed)” MLA (2017).
  • “Religious Studies II: Re-form-ing, Per-form-ing, and Trans-form-ing;” “The Impact of Religion on Women in Late Medieval England”, Texas Medieval Association. (September 2016).
  • “Public and Private Multilingual Spaces and the Hispanic Community.” SCOLAS (2014).
  • Graduate student panel at SCOLAS conference. (2014).
  • “Threads in Medieval Iberian Manuscripts”, Kalamazoo, MI, United States. (May 2011).
  • “Manuscript Threads in Medieval Iberia”, Kalamazoo, MI, United States. (May 2010).
  • “Reflections of the Medieval Woman,” Texas Medieval Association, Austin, TX, United States. (October 2009).
  • “Border Dwellers: Identity, Language and Culture I”; “Border Dwellers; Identity, Language and Culture II”, Kalamazoo, MI, United States. (May 2009).
  • “The Self and the Mediterranean Other,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, United States. (May 2008).

Institutional

University Level

  • Member, Humanities Grant Committee (2022-2023).
  • Member, Pandemic Working Group: Continuity of Student Life. (2020 -Present).
  • Chair, Committee on Committees (2022 – 2025).
  • Member, Presidential Work-Life Council. (2015 – Present).
  • Member, Committee on Committees (2019 – 2022).
  • Member, University Curriculum Committee (2018 – 2025).
  • Director of an education abroad program (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 cancelled due to Covid, 2022).

College Level

  • Chair, Education Abroad Forms Revision Committee (2020).
  • Member, College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee. (2018-2025).
  • Member, Liberal Arts Study Abroad Council. (2014 – Present).
  • Member, Linguistics Minor Exploration Committee. (2015).
  • Member, Research Enhancement Grant Committee. (2013).
  • Collaborator, Proposal for visiting Fulbright Fellow in History. (2010, 2018, 2021).

Department Level

  • Chair, Japanese tenure-track faculty search (2021-2022)
  • Alternate, Department of World Languages and Literatures College Review Group (2020-present).
  • Member, Web, Social and Outreach Committee. (2019 – Present).
  • Alternate-Member. Departmental Library Committee. (2019).
  • Member, Major-Minor Recruitment Committee. (2014 – Present).
  • Member, Spanish MA Recruitment Committee. (2013 – Present).
  • Member, Spanish Steering Committee. (2006 – Present).
  • Mentor, Japanese tenure-track faculty (2018-2020, 2022- Present).
  • Member, German Assistant Professor Search Committee. (September 2016 – 2017).
  • First Year Spanish Language Coordination. (2012 – 2016).
  • Chair, Galvan Scholarship Committee. (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016).