Academics
Meet the Faculty
Lila McDowell Carlsen
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Division: International Studies and Languages Division
Office: Seaver Academic Complex (SAC) 127
Phone: (310) 506-4215
E-mail: lila.mcdowell@pepperdine.edu
- Ph.D., Spanish, University of California, Riverside, 2008
- M.A., Spanish, Baylor University, 2005
- B.A., Spanish, Baylor University, 2003, Summa Cum Laude, Honors with distinction
Courses:
- Advanced Grammar and Composition
- Hispanic Studies
- Spanish Literature I (Origins to 1700)
- Twentieth Century Latin American Authors
- Argentine Literature
- Spanish Phonetics and Conversation
- Elementary Spanish
- Translation
- Second-Year Spanish
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- Seaver Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2007
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Spanish, University of California, Riverside, 2007
- Distinguished Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2005
- Outstanding Graduate of Baylor University, 2003
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Pepperdine Chapter Adviser
- Modern Language Association
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Academic Interests:
- Gender Studies
- Latin American Fiction of the 20th & 21st Centuries
- Latin American Literature
- Utopia and Dystopia
Selected Works:
- "Utopia, Gender, and the Border in Cristina Rivera Garza's La cresta de Illión." Symposium: Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 64.4 (2010): 229-242.
- "Utopia, Archive, and Anarchy in Los siete hijos de Simenon by Ramón Díaz Eterovic." Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 2011. Forthcoming.
- The Utopian Impulse in Chilean and Mexican Novels 1990-2005, Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Riverside, Directed by Raymond L. Williams.
