I began teaching Chicana/o literature in the mid-1990s as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I
Category: Research In Brief
Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades
On February 2nd, 2020, roughly 103 million global television viewers witnessed perhaps the most hotly discussed Latina/o/x live musical event
Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz
“One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya. I have taught his posthumous collection
Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice
March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls
Restoring History, Brick by Brick
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte
The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and
LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece
Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan
When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s little-known, Spanish-language novel Trópico en Manhattan (1951), migrates
Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature Like a series of mixtapes, my Latinx literature syllabi feature
On The Tattooed Soldier and What We Carry in Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature In the immigrant novel I teach, there is not one