
Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies
Education
M.F.A. Columbia University, Creative Writing
Areas of Expertise
Research Interests
Creative Writing: fiction, creative nonfiction Experimental Writing and Literature World Literature Graphic Narratives |
History of Science and Medicine World History Archival Studies and Storytelling Data Visualization |
Courses
LATS 222 / ENGL 252 LEC
Ficciones: A Course on Fiction (not offered 2023/24)LATS 232 / ENGL 232 SEM
We the People in the Stacks: Democracy and Literatures of Archives (not offered 2023/24)LATS 330 SEM
DNA + Latinx: Decoding the "Cosmic Race" (not offered 2023/24)LATS 348 / AMST 348 / COMP 348 SEM
Drawing Democracy: Graphic Narratives as Democratic Ideals (not offered 2023/24)LATS 410 SEM
Arquivistas: An Archival Storytelling Course (not offered 2023/24)Scholarship/Creative Work
Recent Publications
“”Arbographies/Arbografías: Writing Roots, Land, & Sky.” With desveladas collective (Sheila Maldonado and Macarena Hernández), funded by a 2016 Creative Capital Award in Literature. De-Canon Hybrid-Lit Anthology Project. Eds. Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom. De-Canon and Fonograf Editions, forthcoming. Print.
“Pin-Stripe Alley.” Indomitable/Indomables: A Multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women’s Anthology. Eds. Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs. San Diego State University Press, forthcoming. Originally in Dialogues Across Diasporas: Women Writers, Scholars and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation. Eds. Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah Ryan. New York: Lexington Books, 2013: 121-130.
“Rivington Rosary.” Fourteen Days. Ed. Margaret Atwood. Authors Guild Foundation Covid Response Fund. Harper Collins, forthcoming. Print.
“Umbilicus.” Machetes Under Our Beds: An International Anthology of Words and Writing by Daughters of Latin America. Ed. Sandra Guzmán. Amistad Press/Harper Collins, forthcoming. Print.
“On the Origins of O.” SO WE CAN KNOW: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth. Ed. Aracelis Girmay. Haymarket Books, 2023. Print.
“Δx: The Way of the Traveler.” Quislaona: A Fantasy Anthology. DWA Press, 2023. Print.
“MedIsla.” Orion 40th Anniversary Issue (Summer 2022). Print.
“Doris Rodríguez’s MONOCORDE.” Distant Connections 3- The Lockdown Lowdown Special Issue: Women and Covid, a gendered pandemic (September 2021).
“Feedback Loop / Círculo de retroalimentación.” The Amaranta Project, Aster(ix) (Fall 2021).
“Incubation II.” Monsters of the Bronx. Ed. Ivan Vélez. Planet Bronx Productions, 2021. Print.
“Latinx + DNA: Complicando the Double Helix.” Critical Dialogues in Latina and Latino Studies. Eds. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa. New York University Press, 2021.
“Operation Granma G.” Latino Studies 19.4, Special Issue: Arts of Latina and Latino Aging (November 2021).
“Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing.” Teaching Black: Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing. Edited by Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
“Life Beats of Dr. Diana: As Told to Nelly Rosario.” Studies in Comics 11.1–Special Issue on Comics and Education (July 2020).
“AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Years Later.” Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (2 June 2019).
“Song of Morrison: A Eulogy.” Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (6 August 2019).
“Do Us Part.” Everyday People: The Color of Life, ed. Jennifer Baker. New York: Atria Books, 2018.
“El canto del agua.” La nación y su escritura: Colección de voces dominicanas (1965-2017) [The Nation and its Writing: Collection of Dominican Voices (1965-2017)], eds. Carmen Cañete Quesada and Franklin Gutiérrez. Santo Domingo: Editorial Santuario, 2018.
Books
Song of the Water Saints: A Novel. New York: Pantheon, 2002 / New York: Vintage, 2003.
El canto del agua: Una novela, trans. Patricia Antón. Barcelona: Emecé Planeta, 2003 / New York: Vintage Español, 2003 / MD: Recorded Books Audiolibros, 2003.
Editorial
Assistant Director of Writing/Web Developer, MIT Black History Project, 2013-Present
Project Curator, Technology and the Dream Exhibit, MIT Museum, 2021-2022
Content Editor/Web Developer, HTI Open Plaza, Hispanic Theological Initiative, 2019-2023
Content Editor/Web Developer, MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program, MIT, 2014-2023
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award, MIT Alumni Association, 2021
Great Dome Award, BCAP Project Team, MIT Alumni Association, 2021
CUNY DSI Research Fellowship, Dominican Studies Institute, City College-CUNY, 2021
Reading Fellow, Under the Volcano, Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2019, 2020
Archives & Library Research Award, Dominican Studies Institute, City College-CUNY, 2017
Creative Capital Artist Award in Literature, Creative Capital Foundation, 2016
Professional Affiliations
Editorial Board, MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, 2023-Present
Member. Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), 2022-Present
Project Team Member, BCAP (BAMIT Community Advancement Program, MIT Office of Minority Education (OME), 2020-Present
Elected Member, MIT Alumni Association (AASC) Selection Committee, 2021-2024
Member, Advisory Board, Under the Volcano, 2018-Present
Contributing Editor, Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism, 2013-Present
Editor, Ex officio Member, Black Alumni/ae of MIT (BAMIT) National Board, 2010-2021
Current Committees
- Lecture Committee
Visiting Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Program, The Cooper Union, 2021-22
30th-Anniversary Board Committee, Hurston/Wright Foundation, 2020-2021
Megamenu Social