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  • Associate Professor, Spanish Language, Literary and Cultural Studies

    I received my B.A. and M.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and my Ph. D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. My research focuses on contemporary Latin American narrative, with an emphasis in the Spanish speaking Caribbean, particularly Puerto Rico. I have written about the uses of popular music within literary texts, especially the bolero in the contemporary novel. Themes of my courses include popular culture, fiction and nation formation, musicality in fiction, and the cultural contributions of peoples of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. My classes take on these and other subjects from an analytical perspective that emphasizes questions of social class, race, ethnicity, and gender. I am affiliated with the Latinx Center @ the University of Denver and the program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

  • ORCID 0000-0002-6543-0410

  • Books

  • Novelas bolero. Ficciones musicalizadas posnacionales. San Juan: Isla Negra, 2012.

  • Rita De Maeseneer y Salvador Mercado Rodríguez. Ocho veces Luis Rafael Sánchez. Madrid: Verbum, 2008.

  • Other Representative Publications (selection):

  • “La música como carnet de identidad afrodiaspórica: El blues y el reggae en la narrativa de Anacristina Rossi.” Afro-Hispanic Review. 34.2 (Fall 2015) 41-55.

  • “Hibridación genérica en la narrativa puertorriqueña reciente: tres colecciones de cuentos integrados.” El canon en la narrativa contemporánea del Caribe y del Cono Sur. Eds. Rita De Maeseneer and Ilse Logie. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 181-197.

  • “Ciudad, escritura y violencia en la narrativa de Francisco Font Acevedo.” Ciudad y escritura. Imaginario de la ciudad latinoamericana a las puertas del siglo XXI. Ed. Nanne Timmer. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2013. 95–115.

  • “El cuerpo desmembrado y la reconfiguración del orden en la narrativa de Francisco Font Acevedo”. Nuestra América. Revista de estudios sobre la cultura latinoamericana. 8 (2010): 261-277.

  • "Resistencia femenina y razón poscolonial:  Hacia una lectura doble de Calypso, de Tatiana Lobo". Ciberletras. 24 (2010). En línea.

  • “Contemplando La belleza bruta, de Francisco Font Acevedo”. Confluencia 25.2 (2010): 106-121.

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