EDUCATION

Ph.D.       Comparative Literature, Emory University

M.A.        Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts

M.F.A.     Creative Writing, California College of the Arts

B.A.         Literature/Spanish Language & Culture, New College of Florida                  

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2023-     Central Connecticut State University, Department of English

               Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Movement and Mental Travel: Reina María Rodríguez’s Textile Poetics.” MaComère, the journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, vol. 16, no. 1, 2024-2025, pp. 144–176.

“Art, Relic, or Refuse?: The Abject Exhibition of the Cuban Raft and Its Literary Afterlife in Fiction by Achy Obejas.” Latino Studies, vol. 22, no. 4, 2024.

“Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, issue 69, November 2022.

WORKS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

“Cutting Cane: A Cultural Studies-Informed Approach to Trauma and Cultural Competence.” (Co-authored with Carlos A. Larrauri). HPHR Journal (formerly the Harvard Public Health Review), PRISM: Mental Health Through the Lens of Difference, September 2023.

BOOK REVIEWS & PEDAGOGY

“The Archipelagic in Action.” Review of Archipelagic American Studies, Eds. Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens, Duke University Press, 2017. sx salon: a small axe literary platform, no. 35, October 2020.

“Constructing Landscapes in a Caribbean Context.” Lesson plan featured in the Humanities in Class Digital Library, National Humanities Center, April 21, 2020.

“Echoes off the Straits of Florida: The Rafts of the Cuban Balseros.” Featured in the Smithsonian Learning Lab’s Cuban Balseros: Using Art and Artifact to Explore an American Immigration Story, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, April 6, 2020. (Originally published in Sightlines, Graduate Program in Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, 2015, pp. 192-212.)

POETRY

Flight. Chapbook published by Volumes Volumes Press, 2017.

“Right-Here Man,” Tupelo Quarterly, issue 11, editor’s selection with an introduction by Cassandra Cleghorn.

“Frontier is the Mouthpiece,” “Resonator,” “Window Cuts the Landscape,” and “Shine.” VOLT, issue 21.

“In Such Light.” Denver Quarterly, volume 50 / issue 1.

“The Valley” and “Green Oaks Creek Farm.” Jai-Alai Magazine, issue 7.

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS

American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women (AAUW), 2022-23

Goizueta  Graduate Fellowship, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, 2021-22

Library Travel Grant, Latin American & Caribbean Collection, University of Florida, 2021

National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency Program, funded by the Mellon Interventions Project at Emory University, 2019

TuCuba Fellowship, CubaOne Foundation, 2016