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Title

Associate Professor

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

315

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 315
School of American & Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• Ph.D. in department of comparative literature; minor in criticism, theory and aesthetics | Pennsylvania State University
• M.A. in comparative literature | University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A. in american and literary studies | Bielefeld University, Germany
• B.A. in modern languages | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Academic Interests

• Latin American literatures and cultures
• Latina/o literatures and cultures
• Inter-American Studies
• Diaspora
• U.S. ethnic literatures
• Globalization
• Human rights
• Transatlantic studies
• Transnationalism
• Minority writing
• Cultures in Germany

Work Experience

• 2022 to present - associate professor, South ��ֱ���� State University
• 2016- 2022 - assistant professor, South ��ֱ���� State University
• 2008-2016 - permanent full-time tenured lecturer, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Summer 2010-2016 - visiting professor, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
• Summer 2012 and 2013 - short-term visiting research scholar at Penn State University

Areas of Research

Publications

Single-Authored Book

1. . Routledge, Oct. 18, 2024. 254 pp. 

Collections (Edited and Co-Edited Books)

1. Human Rights in the Americas. Co-editors María Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomelí. Routledge, 2021. 334 pp.
2. Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 282 pp.

Reviewed by Stephanie Siewert in “’America at large?’ Inter-American Studies, Transnationalism and the Hemispheric Turn: Research Survey and Review of the Book Series Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos (vol. I-V).” Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 60. 4. (2015): 533-47. 

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

1. “.”CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (2006)

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• “Introduction to Human Rights in the Americas.” Human Rights in the Americas. Co-authors María Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomelí. Routledge, 2021. 1-28.
• “Capá Prieto and the Decolonial Afro-Latin(o/a) American Imagination.” Human Rights in the Americas. Routledge, 2021. 223-242.
• “Migrant Literature.”The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas. Eds. Wilfried Raussert, Giselle Liza Anatol, Sebastian Thies, Sarah Corona Berkin and José Carlos Lozano. Co-author Miriam Brandel. Routledge, 2020. 147-155.
• “L���پ��Ծ��岹��.” The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas. Eds. Olaf Kaltmeyer, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Mario Rufer. Routledge, 2019. 339-346.
• “Brazuca Literature: Old and New Currents, Countercurrents and Undercurrents.” The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. Eds. Laura Lomas and John Morán González. Cambridge UP, 2018. 602-20. (The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature is 2018 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title”)                 
• “E��貹�Ի徱�Բ� Latinidad: A Hemispheric Perspective.” The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies. Ed. Wilfried Raussert. Routledge, 2017. 77-91.
• “Human Rights and Minority Rights: Argentine and German Perspectives.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Eds. Sophia McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Routledge, 2015. 361-372.
• &�Բ�����;“E��貹�Ի徱�Բ� Latinidad: An Introduction.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Angélica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 1-56. 
• &�Բ�����;“Samba Dreamers; or, the Tenuousness of a ‘Perfect Ending’.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Angélica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 133-52.
• “Cecilia Absatz’s Los años pares or the Challenges of Reevaluating Autochthonous Latinamericanism.”&�Բ�����;“Nach Amerika nämlich! - Jüdische Migrationen in die Amerikas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.&�Բ�����;(“To America!” Jewish Migrations to the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries) Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Gerald Lamprecht, Roberta Maierhofer and Andrea Strutz. Wallstein Verlag, 2012. 335-53.
• [Reprinted in InterAmerican Perspectives in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab. Edited by Wilfried Raussert and Olaf Kaltmeier. Wissenschafticher Verlag Trier/University of New Orleans Press, 2021. 91-106]. 

Refereed Contributions to Reference Works

• “Latinos and Latinas in the United States: History, Culture and Literature,” 2: 551-54.&�Բ�����;“Puerto Rico: History, Culture and Literature,” 2: 811-14. “Puerto Rico: Generación del treinta (1930s Generation)," 2: 809-11.&�Բ�����;“Ilan Stavans,” 3: 936-37. “Tato Laviera,” 2: 557-58.  World Literature in Spanish:  An Encyclopedia. Ed. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2011.
• “Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.”&�Բ�����;The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture. Vol.3.2.7.: Chicano/Latino/Writing and Culture of the United States. Eds. Emory Elliot, Nuala Finnegan and Stephen E. Meats. First published 24 Oct. 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com, accessed February 7, 2019.]
• “Elisa Lerner,” 273-75. “Angelina Muñiz-Huberman,” 355-57. “Reina Roffé,” 452-54. Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Ed. María Claudia André and Eva Bueno. Routledge, 2008.
• “Machismo,” 3: 54-59. “Navidad,” 3: 229-32. “Quinceañera,” 3: 440-42.  Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society. Ed. Ilan Stavans. 3 vols. Grolier, 2005.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. “Welcoming New Americans: A View from South ��ֱ����.” Proceedings from the Eighteenth Annual Cambio de Colores/Change of Colors Meeting of the Cambio Center, June 5-7 2019: Welcoming Immigrants and Newcomers in Turbulent Times: Knowledge, Connections and Actions, edited by Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia. Co-author Christine Garst-Santos. Cambio Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2020, pp. 47-52.

Book Reviews 

• Beushausen, Wiebke, et al., eds. Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics, in Critical Reviews on Latin American Research –&�Բ�����;CROLAR. 8. 1 (2019): 66-68.
• Raanan Rein coord.; María José Cano Pérez and Beatriz Molina Rueda, eds. Más allá del Medio Oriente. Las diasporas judía y árabe en América Latina, in E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe. 23. 2 (2012): 147-50.
• Erin Graff Zivin.; The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary, in Comparative Literature Studies. 48. 2 (2011): 241-246. 
• Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, ed.; Studying Transcultural Literary History, in Comparative Literature Studies. 45. 3 (2008): 381-384.
• Juan F. Tazón Salces and Isabel Carrera Suárez, eds.; Post/Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations, in Comparative Literature Studies. 44. 3 (2007): 350-53. 
• Dorothy M. Figueira.; Aryans, Jews, Brahmins. Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity, in Comparative Literature Studies.  42. 2 (2005): 326-329.