Book
Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture, University of Arizona Press, 2017
Manuscripts in Progress
“Amor Prohibido: Amative Ethics and Aesthetics in Latinx Cultural Production”
- In this manuscript, I draw on the work of feminist and political philosophers, affect theorists, and Latinx and Queer studies to examine how Latinxs theorize love within and beyond the romantic and how they point toward radical ideations of freedom, justice, and ethics.
“Latinx Gothic and Horror in Literature and Film”
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2017 “Home/land Insecurities, Or, un desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise’s blu (2011),” Modern Fiction Studies, 63.2 (2017): 247-269.
2014 “‘Estas son mis armas’: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Poetics of Feminist Solidarity in the Era of Neoliberal Militarism,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 51-69.
2011 “Media, Militarism, and Mythologies of the State: The Latino Soldier in World War Two Films,” Latino Studies 9.2-3(Summer/Autumn 2011): 283-299.
Book Chapters
2016 “Desiring History in Sabina Berman’s and Sandra Cisneros’s Narratives of the Mexican Revolution” in Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in 21st Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism, edited by Yolanda A. Padilla and William Orchard, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016, p. 80-102.
2013 “From Maiden to Mambisa: Evangelina Cisneros and the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898” in The Martial Imagination: Essays on the Cultural History of American Warfare, edited by Jimmy L. Bryan, Texas A&M University Press, 2013, p. 88-106.
2012 “Citizenship” with Suzanne Oboler, in The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Literature, eds. Frances Aparicio and Suzanne Bost, Routledge Press, 2012, p. 133-142.
2011 “Boy Heroes and Good Neighbors: Cold War Discourse and the Symbolism of Chapultepec in María Cristina Mena’s Boy Heroes of Chapultepec (1953)” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume VIII, Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Clara Lomas, eds., Arte Público Press, 2011, p. 17-36.
Encyclopedia Essays
2020 “Warfare and Latina/o Social Movements,” (8,000 words), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Volume Editor Louis Mendoza; Associate Editors: Arturo Arias, Raúl Coronado, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Ben V. Olguín, and Sandra Soto, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 –
2012 “Chicano Literature and Folklore” (5,000 words) in Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions, volume 1, edited by María Herrera-Sobek, ABC-CLIO, 2012, p. 269-279.
2011 Entries on Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar (1973) in The Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature, edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, 2011:
- “Suffering in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”
- “Gender in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”
- “Sex, Sensuality, and Eroticism in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”
- “Nationalism in Farewell to Manzanar”
- “Stages of Life in Farewell to Manzanar”
- “Family in Farewell to Manzanar ”
2010 Entries in On the Move: The Encyclopedia of Immigration, Migration, and Nativism in U.S. History, edited by James Olson and Benjamin Olson, Facts on File, 2010
- “María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don (1885)”
- “El Norte (1983)”
- “Tortilla Soup (2001)”
- “Maria Full of Grace (2004)”
Book Reviews
2019 Review of Juliet Takes a Breath (2016) by Gabby Rivera, co-written with Stephanie Calderón Vásquez, in Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social 19.1 (Fall 2019).
2013 Review of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries (2011) by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, in the New Mexico Historical Review 88.3 (Summer 2013): 350-351.
2012 Review of Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America (2010), edited by Gina Perez, Frank Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, in Latino Studies, 10.3 (Fall 2012): 426-428.
2009 Review of The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture (2006) by John-Michael Rivera in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 34.1 (Spring 2009): 293-297.
Blog Posts, Online Articles, Interviews
2018 “Mothering Against Militarism,” blog post, Latinx Talk (an edited, moderated and peer-reviewed academic forum), Ohio State University, May 8, 2018
