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...]

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...]

In her review of the anthology, Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing, edited by Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez, Rachel Galvin cites the essay that Raphael Dalleo and I wrote for the Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Galvin helpfully … [Read more...]

The Latinx Project at NYU put together an amazing conference on "Digitizing Race: making Latinx in the 21st Century" and I was fortunate to present on a panel moderated by Cristina Beltrán entitled, "Social Media for Social Change." I shared material from my essay, “Debt of … [Read more...]

Check out the essay I recently published as part of the collection, Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism, edited by Carlos Gallego and Marcial González. In "Bodega Sold Dreams: Middle-Class Panic and the … [Read more...]

Check out the essay I recently published in Latino Studies entitled, "Generation MFA: Neoliberalism and the shifting cultural capital of US Latinx writers." This essay describes the emergence of an MFA generation of Latinx writers as a neoliberal phenomenon that offers critics … [Read more...]

The journal CLIO has published a review of Market Aesthetics. Erin M. Fehskens comments on how Market Aesthetics is “models a pitch perfect method of engaging author intentionality through a robust close reading of the form and content of [the] chosen novels.” She notes that … [Read more...]

Check out the essay I recently published in a special issue of Studies in Musical Theater entitled, "Blackout on Broadway: Affiliation and audience in In the Heights and Hamilton."  The special issue dedicated to Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, Hamilton, was guest edited by Peter … [Read more...]

At the third biennial conference of the Latina/o Studies Association in Washington, DC, I presented on a panel organized by Ylce Irizarry entitled, "Against the Grain: Producing Alternative Archives of Latinidad." I shared a comparative analysis of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s use of … [Read more...]