At the 2021 MLA Convention, I had the fortune of organizing and presiding over a Special Session entitled, “Afro-Latinx Stories,” which is co-sponsored by the MLA's LLC Latina and Latino (G100) Forum and the LLC African American Forum. I want to thank my colleagues in the African … [Read more...]
(Oct. 28, 2020) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion
Posted on October 10, 2020 ·
Join the virtual panel discussion on Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez's new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan … [Read more...]
(Sept. 20, 2020) Afro-Latinx Stories Panel Goes Virtual for MLA 2021 Convention
Posted on September 20, 2020 ·
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...]
(May 19, 2020) Afro-Latinx Stories Panel accepted for MLA 2021 Convention
Posted on May 20, 2020 ·
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
Posted on May 6, 2020 ·
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
Posted on April 2, 2020 ·
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
Posted on March 26, 2020 ·
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
Posted on January 20, 2020 ·
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
Posted on January 9, 2020 ·
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
Posted on December 8, 2019 ·
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...]