I am an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies and English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and specialize in Latinx literary and cultural studies. My book, Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture (2017, University of Arizona Press), examines the rise of neoliberal militarism from the early 1970s to the present through the lens of a Chicana feminist critique.  I am the co-founder of the Biennial Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference and the co-founder of the Latinx Literature Minor – the first program of its kind to exist at CUNY. I am currently working on two projects that focus on Latinx love and horror.