Education CV

Positions Held
Clinical Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University, 2012-2021
Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, 2004-2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA, 2000-2012
Instructor, UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting – 2000-2012
Instructor, UCLA Extension – 2000-2012
Assistant Director and Curriculum Coordinator, Indo-Chinese Refugee Assistance
Program, Long Beach Community College. Created curriculum, supervised 18 instructors and 45 student aides – 1980-1982
Instructor in ESL, Long Beach Community College – 1975-1980

Courses taught
Screenwriting 120 – Loyola Marymount University. Storytelling for the Screen.
Screenwriting 220 – Loyola Marymount University. Feature Story Development
Screenwriting 320 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the Feature Screenplay
Screenwriting 321 – Loyola Marymount University. Rewriting the Feature Screenplay
Screenwriting 325 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the Comedy TV Series Spec Script
Screenwriting 327 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the short for Production.
Screenwriting 398 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the short in London.
Screenwriting 420 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the Senior Project
Screenwriting 421 – Loyola Marymount University. Rewriting the Senior Project
Screenwriting 530 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the Short Film for Production
Screenwriting 552 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing for the internet.
Screenwriting 598 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing the Sitcom Pilot
Screenwriting 620 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing for Production Thesis
Screenwriting 670 – Loyola Marymount University. Writing Episodic Comedy
Screenwriting 681 – Loyola Marymount University. Production of the Master’s Thesis
Screenwriting 691 – Loyola Marymount University. Rewriting the Thesis
Film and Television Studies 3700 – Loyola Marymount University. Shakespeare Adaptations to Film
(in London)
First Year Seminar 1000 – Loyola Marymount University. Gender Fluidity in Shakespeare
Rewriting the feature – Story Academy, Sweden
Rewriting the Feature – Summer seminar at EICTV, the film school of Cuba. (in Spanish)
Approach to Story – Universidad de Zulia, Venezuela. State Department Sponsored
seminar. (In Spanish)
Introduction to Screenwriting Story – Internet course for The Autonomous University
of Barcelona (In Spanish)
Writing the Screenplay – A special online seminar for First Nations Writers sponsored
by ScreenWest Australia.
Writing the Treatment – A special seminar for the Writers Guild of Australia and ScreenWest
Australia.
The Mysteries of Dialogue, EICTV, the film school of Cuba. Master class on dialogue (in
Spanish).
Rewriting Seminar, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Digital Media, Professional Program in
Screenwriting.
Screenwriting 434, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Digital Media. Screenwriting seminar in
the UCLA MFA course of studies.
Intensive course in screenwriting, Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya
(ESCAC), part of the University of Barcelona (in Spanish).
(Note: All UCLA Extension and Professional Program classes were taught online and on the ground)
Advanced Screenwriting Seminar, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Digital Media,
Professional Program in Screenwriting.
Bare Bones: How Screenwriters Structure a Movie from the Inside Out, UCLA
Extension.
Intermediate Screenwriting I – Writing the Script the Professional Way, UCLA Extension.
Intermediate Screenwriting II – Finishing the Feature Film, UCLA Extension.
Fade In to Fade Out: Rewriting the Feature Script, UCLA Extension.
Deep Structure: Learning from Contemporary Masters How to Structure Your
Screenplay. UCLA Extension.
Introduction to Screenwriting Seminar, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television,
Professional Program in Screenwriting.
Creating Dynamic Scenes, UCLA Extension.
Introduction to Screenwriting I, II, III, UCLA Extension.
Creating Compelling Characters, UCLA Extension, workshop.
Creating Compelling Characters, UC Irvine Extension, workshop.

Committees
LMU Academic Senate – two terms
SFTV Faculty and Staff Production Committee, LMU (Chair)
Disability Support Services Advisory Committee, LMU
ACE Internationalization Lab, Faculty Dev. Sub-Committee, LMU
SFTV EDI Sub-Committee on Faculty training, LMU
SFTV Curriculum Committee, LMU
SFTV Vision Committee, LMU

Courses completed
CITI Training Workshop
Teaching online, LMU
Teaching online, UCLA Extension
Writing and producing for television and film. UCLA Extension
Graduate studies, UC Berkeley, and UCSD, in Comparative Literature (Spanish,
English, & Italian)
B.A., with honors, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley. Major language, Spanish.
Certificado de estudios, Universidad de Madrid.