Education
- Ph.D., University of Southern California
Courses Taught
- EN 497 Unsettling Early American Literature
- EN 392 U.S. & Caribbean Literature
- EN 390 Literature of the U.S./Mexico Border
- EN 367 First-Generation Writing: Migration and Memory in Recent American Literature
- EN 291 Race, Law, and American Literature
- EN 200 Literature and Climate Change
- EN 101 Reading Migration / Writing Migration
Publications
- The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth Century
Literature. New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Nominated for the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. -
"Credible Fears: The Asylum Narrative as form in Lost Children Archive." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 79.4 (Winter 2023). 49-70.
- "Free Trade Masculinities and the Literature of NAFTA,” in Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics. Matt Seybold, ed. (Routledge 2018).
- "Haunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death,” Southern Quarterly 55.4 (Summer 2018), Special Issue: The Caribbean South.
- “‘Say, Is This the USA’? Documenting Modernity in Cuba and the US South,” Comparative American Studies 10.4 (December 2012).
- “Academic Discourse at Havana: Pan American Eugenics and Transnational Capital in Alejo Carpentier’s ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!,” Modern Fiction Studies 58.1 (Spring 2012).
- “Mesoamerican Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the Archaeological Imagination,” Journal of Modern Literature 34.4 (Summer 2011).
Areas of Specialization
- 20th-Century American Literature
- Multiethnic U.S. Literature