Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies Program Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Education
B.A. in Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 1992
M.A. in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Columbia University, 1994
Ph.D. in Spanish, Emory University, 2000
Dissertation: “Lost and Found: Insularity and the Construction of Subjectivity in Hispanic Caribbean Literature” (Prof. Carlos J. Alonso, director)
Certificate in Women's Studies, Emory University, 2000
Selected Publications
Out of Bounds: Islands and the Demarcation of Hispanic Caribbean Identity. Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory. (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
* There's (Always) Something About Cuba: Security and States of Exception in a Fundamentally Unsafe World. SAQ 107.2 (2007) forthcoming
* Urban Desires: Melancholia and Fernando Pérez's Portrayal of Havana." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. forthcoming
* “Looking Like a Lesbian Narrative: Towards a Queer Caribbean Poetics.” Strange Affinities: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Comparative Racialization Ed. Grace Kyungwon Hong & Roderick Ferguson. accepted
* “Érase una isla: la llegada como fundamento retórico en el Caribe hispánico” Revista Candiense de Estudios Hispánicos 29.2 (2005): 285-305
* “Next Year in the Diaspora: The Uneasy Articulation of Transcultural Positionality in Achy Obejas’s Days of Awe.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 8 (2004): 59-74
* “Virtual Islands: The Reterritorialization of Puerto Rican Spatiality in Cyberspace” Hispanic Review 72.3 (2004): 375-40
* “Los límites de la carne: los cuerpos asediados de Virgilio Piñera.” Revista Iberoamericana 69.205 (2003): 1001-15
* “Out of Place: The Demarcation of Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Spaces in the Diaspora ” Latino Studies 1.2 (2003): 1-21
* "Once on this Island: The Performance of Spatiality in Salvador Brauís La vuelta al hogar" Chasqui 23.1 (2003): 74-84
* “El otro que no es uno: configuraciones retóricas en los estudios coloniales recientes” Cuadernos Americanos 5.71 (1998): 163-179
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