M.A., Stanford University, Creative Writing Program
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, English
Courses Regularly Taught
Caribbean Spirits, Colonial Ghosts: Pan-Caribbean Literature
Magical Realism in the Americas, and Beyond
U.S. Latino/a Literature
Fiction Writing Workshops
Research Interests
--Caribbean Literature
--Literatures of the Americas
--Magical Realism
--Ghosts and the Gothic in Literature
--Fiction writing: the novel and short story
--Minority literature
--Latino/a literature and aesthetics
Publications
Published Books: Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)
Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism (Co-editor. Palgrave Macmillan 2007)
Selected Published Short Stories:
"Refrain for Chico Lotario" (The Hogtown Creek Review)
"The Cauldron" (The Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue)
"The Other Number" (The Texas Review, reprinted in CCNY's Promethean)
Forthcoming work: Outside the Bones, a novel
Current awards 2008-9 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award for work on Outside the Bones.
