Born and raised in Miami, I am a scholar, poet, and educator working in the fields of Latinx and Caribbean literature and visual culture. I earned my Ph.D. from the Comparative Literature Department at Emory University and a dual M.F.A./M.A. from California College of the Arts.

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TEACHING

I currently serve as Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University. The courses I teach engage ethnic studies, feminist and queer theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and trauma and memory studies. In an effort to help my students link the study of Latinx literature with its production, I have worked to bring visiting poets to our campus and to our local public library with grant support from the Library of America’s Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home initiative.

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RESEARCH

My book project, currently under advance contract, is a comparative study on literary and artistic representations of Cuban and Haitian sea migration. This research grows partly out of my dissertation, which considered “drifting subjects” in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean texts. The research has been supported by fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the Goizueta Foundation program at the Cuban Heritage Collection as well as with Connecticut State University AAUP faculty research grants.

My recent publications include “Movement and Mental Travel: Reina María Rodríguez’s Textile Poetics” (in MaComère), “Art, Relic, or Refuse? The Abject Exhibition of the Cuban Raft and Its Literary Afterlife in the Fiction of Achy Obejas” (in Latino Studies) and “Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity” (in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism). Other scholarly and pedagogical projects have been featured in the Smithsonian Learning Lab and the National Humanities Center’s digital library for educators.

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POETRY

My poetry chapbook Flight (published by Volumes Volumes) is a meditation on the multigenerational effects of migration and feminine embodiment. More of my poems appear in Denver Quarterly, VOLT, Jai-Alai Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and Philosophy and Global Affairs.