Languages and Cultures

Research Interests

• Contemporary Latin American Literary, Film, and Cultural Studies
• Critical Theory
• Creative Writing
• Avant-Gardes and Mass Media
• Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Narrative, and Utopian Thought
• Revisions and Re-inscriptions of the Nineteenth Century
• U.S. Latinx Literatures and Cultures
• Gender and Queer Studies
• Translation

Courses Offered

Graduate: 

• LNC 503: Cultural Studies
• SPA 556/557 Seminar Topics Included:
• Contemporary Latin America: Politics and Aesthetics since 1959 (Summer 2016)
• Contemporary Latin America: The Avant-Gardes, Then and Now (Summer 2018)
• Latin American Women Writers (Summer 2019)
• The Utopian Impulse in Latin America (Spring 2020)

Undergraduate:

• Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Spanish
• LNC 368: Comparative Cultural Studies
• SPA 315: Advanced Readings
• SPA 321: Cultures of Latin America
• SPA 331: Latin American Narrative
• SPA 456/457: Senior Seminar in Hispanic Literary, Film, and Cultural Studies

General Education and Culture Cluster Courses:

• LNC 100: Discover the World on Film (Humanities)
• LNC 105: Global Science Fiction (Humanities and Writing Emphasis)
• LNC 106: Global Fantasy Fiction (Humanities and Speaking Emphasis)
• ESP 316: Latin American Avant-Gardes and Mass Media (CC, J, I)
• ESP 317: Utopia and the Apocalypse in the Americas (CC, ET, I)
• ESP 324: Latinxs in the United States
• ESP 334: Politics and Economics in Latin American Literature and Film Publications

Book

• ARTELETRA: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, Purdue University Press, 2021.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Deserted Islands for the Nation: Empty Land- and Seascapes in Argentine Films of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands.” The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema, edited by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Antonio Gómez, World Cinema Series, Bloomsbury Press, 2022. 31–54.
• “La ética de exponerse en De miedo en miedo de Armonía Somers.” Invited book chapter in La escritura de Armonía Somers. Pulsión y riesgo. Ed. María Cristina Dalmagro. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2019.
• “Farmworkers’ Theater,” “Flor y canto,” “Rebozo,” and “Vegigantes.” Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood P, 2012. 489, 496, 975–976, 1119–1120.

PUBLICATIONS: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

• “Navigating Uncertainty: The Ambiguous Utopias of Le Guin, Gorodischer, and Jemisin.” Utopian Studies 33.1 (2022): 107–126. Penn State University Press.
• “Byung-Chul Han’s Negativity; or, Restoring Beauty and Rage in Excessively Positive Times.” Forthcoming in CR: The New Centennial Review 21.3 (2021). Michigan State University Press.
• “Héctor Manjarrez’s Uncertainty; or, Politics without Dogma.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 53.3 (2019): 923–946. Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins Press.
• “Calvert Casey’s Wasted Narratives.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 70.1 (2017): 19–35. Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania Press.
• “La alegoría errante de la torre-cueva de Juan Filloy.” Revista Iberoamericana 82.254 (Jan-Mar 2016): 213–228. IILI, University of Pittsburgh.
• “Gauchos at the Origins: Lugones, Borges, Filloy.” Variaciones Borges 40 (2015): 133–152. Borges Center, University of Pittsburgh.
• “A Queer Chicana/o Ethics of Representation: Rasquache Camp in the Novels of Rechy and Luna Lemus.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39.1 (Spring 2014): 105­–132. UCLA, Chicano Studies Research Center.

Fiction

• “No Worries.” Daily Science Fiction. (Forthcoming 2022)
• “The Bent Greens.” In The World’s Revolution: Gaia Awakens, edited by C. D. Tavenor, Two Doctors Media Collaborative, 2021. Pp. 93–119.
• “Leiprenese 101.” Metaphorosis: Beautifully Made Speculative Fiction, edited by B. Morris Allen, Neskowin: Metaphorosis Publishing, May 2021. Pp. 91–128.
• “The General’s Chair.” Boned. Web. 9 April 2019. Republished in Boned Every Which Way: A Collection of Skeletal Literature 2019, edited by Nate Ragolia, Denver: Spaceboy Books, 2020. Pp. 77–98.
• “Obliviol: A Once-a-Day Pill for Drug-Anxiety Induced Agitation, Anxiety, Apprehension, and Horror.” The Metaworker. Web. 31 December 2018.
• “The Erasure.” Here Comes Everyone, “The Tomorrow Issue,” volume 7, issue 1 (2018): 39-41.
• Republished in Metastellar: Speculative Fiction and Beyond. Web. 18 June 2021.
• “With Them.” In My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, edited by Ruzbeh Babei. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, 11–13, 2018.
• “Orientation Packet for Gotham City Taxi Drivers.” Co-authored with Katherine Ann Davis. Punchnel’s. Web. 9 May 2016.

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