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Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature
English
Latino & Puerto Rican Studies Minor
Assistant Professor
English, MA
Contact
Office
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
401-17
Monday
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tuesday
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Thursday
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Or by appointment
Education
Areas of Expertise
Latinx Literature
Caribbean Literature
Literary Theory
Memory Studies
Publications, Research & Presentations
“Movement and Mental Travel: Reina María Rodríguez’s Textile Poetics.” MaComère, the journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, vol. 16, no. 1, 2024-2025, pp. 144–176.
“Art, Relic, or Refuse?: The Abject Exhibition of the Cuban Raft and Its Literary Afterlife in Fiction by Achy Obejas.” Latino Studies, vol. 22, no. 4, 2024, pp. 659–680.
“Cutting Cane: A Cultural Studies-Informed Approach to Trauma and Cultural Competence.” (Co-authored with Carlos A. Larrauri). HPHR Journal (formerly the Harvard Public Health Review), PRISM: Mental Health Through the Lens of Difference, September 2023.
“Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, issue 69, November 2022.
“Echoes off the Straits of Florida: The Rafts of the Cuban Balseros.” Featured in the Smithsonian Learning Lab’s Cuban Balseros: Using Art and Artifact to Explore an American Immigration Story, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, April 6, 2020.
Courses Taught
ENG/LTN 219 Introduction to Latinx Literature
ENG/LTN 347 Latinx Literature
ENG 388 Topics in World Literature: Contemporary Caribbean Literature
ENG 388 Topics in World Literature: Gender & Sexuality in Caribbean & Latinx Literature
ENG 540 Migration, Theory, & Literature of the Americas
HON 110 Honors Writing & Research I