In her capacity as Associate Vice Provost for Curricular Innovation, Dr. Torres provides strategic leadership in the design, development, and implementation of innovative academic initiatives and learning experiences. This role supports the institution’s mission to deliver high-quality, learner-centered education across all modalities, including in-person, online, hybrid, and non-credit formats.
Dr. Torres also holds the position of Teaching Associate Professor in Latinx and Gender Studies for the Literature Program in the Department of English.
She earned her doctorate at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, “Serial Storytelling, Female Audiences and Telenovelas: Television’s influence on Contemporary Latina/o Fiction,” offers a multidisciplinary approach to examine melodrama’s subversive potential within U.S. Latina/o literature by adapting recent scholarship on serialized melodrama and feminist theory to discussions of the Latin American telenovela and U.S. Latinx fiction.
Her research interests include Latinx literary and cultural studies, ethnic media studies, cultural hybridity, transnationalism, feminist theory, intercultural competency training, global and community engaged learning, and program/curricular assessment.