The “Afro-Latinx Stories” panel is scheduled as a Special session for the 2021 MLA convention, which will be held entirely online! The panel will be held on Thursday, January 7, 2020, from 1:45 PM-3:00 PM EST and is co-sponsored by MLA's LLC Latina and Latino (G100) … [Read more...]

(Sept. 20, 2020) Afro-Latinx Stories Panel Goes Virtual for MLA 2021 Convention

(May 19, 2020) Afro-Latinx Stories Panel accepted for MLA 2021 Convention
The “Afro-Latinx Stories” panel proposed for the 2021 MLA convention in Toronto has been approved as a Special Session! Co-sponsored by MLA's LLC Latina and Latino (G100) Forum and the LLC African American Forum. Check out the complete panel abstract, presenters, and … [Read more...]

(May 5, 2020) Latino/a Canon cited in Latinx Literature Now
In Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event (2019), Ricardo L. Ortiz “suggest[s] that, beginning in 2007 with the appearance of Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Sáez’s The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), […] the … [Read more...]

(April 2, 2020) US Latinx Twitter Essay published in Archipelagos
Check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil. In "Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter," I engage in an … [Read more...]

(Mar. 26, 2020) 4th issue of Archipelagos journal launching April 2nd
My essay, "Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter," will be appearing in the new issue of archipelagos, which is set to launch on April 2, 2020! Abstract: This essay, which engages in an analysis of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s invocation of “for … [Read more...]

(Jan. 19, 2020) Market Aesthetics is cited in MELUS and Postcolonial Text
My monograph, Market Aesthetics, was critically engaged by two scholars recently. Sarah Winstein-Hibbs's 2019 MELUS article entitled, "A Critical Regionalist Reading of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Rethinking Magical Realism through Afro-Caribbean Oral Narrative" … [Read more...]

(Jan. 10, 2020) Chairing the MLA 2020 Latinx Aftershocks Panel
I am presiding over the "Latinx Aftershocks" panel at the 2020 MLA convention in Seattle! This panel is sponsored by MLA's LLC Latina and Latino (G100) Forum. Check out the complete panel abstract, presenters, and presentation abstracts … [Read more...]

(Nov. 9, 2019) Presenting at the American Society for Theater Research Conference
At the the 2019 ASTR Conference, I presented as part of a Working Session entitled, "Latinx Publics." The organizers for the workshop were Jon D. Rossini from the University of California at Davis and Patricia Ybarra of Brown University. I was fortunate to get feedback on my US … [Read more...]

(July 19, 2019) Latinx Aftershocks Panel accepted for MLA 2020 Convention
The "Latinx Aftershocks" panel proposed for the 2020 MLA convention in Seattle has been approved as a Special Session! This panel is sponsored by MLA's LLC Latina and Latino (G100) Forum. Check out the complete panel abstract, presenters, and presentation abstracts … [Read more...]

(June 8, 2019) Attending the Digital Humanities Studies Institute
I was fortunate to take the course, "Race, Social Justice, & DH: Applied Theories and Methods v. 2.0" at DHSI, which was held at the University of Victoria. The course instructors were Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University) and Angel David Nieves (San Diego State … [Read more...]