Chair and 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
Scholarship/Creative Work
Selected Publications
“Mid-Island: After Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazzthoughts.’” Sites of Memory: Toni Morrison and the Archive. Eds. Kinohi Nishikawa and Autumn Womack. Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
“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: A Novel. Ed. Margaret Atwood. Authors Guild Foundation Covid Response Fund. Harper Collins, 2024. Print.
“Δx: The Way of the Traveler.” Quislaona: A Fantasy Anthology. DWA Press, 2023.
“Umbilicus.” Daughters of Latin America [Hijas de América Latina]: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women. Ed. Sandra Guzmán. Amistad Press/Harper Collins, 2023. 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.
“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
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
Project Curator, Technology and the Dream Exhibit, MIT Museum, 2021-2022
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Great Dome Award, MIT Class of 2007 Tech Reunions Multicultural Fest Planning Committee, MIT Alumni Association, 2023
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
Alpha Chi Favorite Professors Award, Texas State University, 2012
Professor of the Year, Sigma Tau Delta International Literary Society, Texas State University, 2009
Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction, 2008
Professional Affiliations
Memberships
Project Team Member, BCAP (BAMIT Community Advancement Program), MIT Office of Minority Education (OME), 2020-Present
Member, Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), 2022-Present
Member, Advisory Board, Under the Volcano, 2018-2023
Editorial
Editorial Board, MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, 2023-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
SERVICE
Williams
Lecture Committee, Williams College, 2022-2023
Honorary Degrees Advisory Committee, Williams College, 2021-2022
Other
Collections Committee, MIT Museum, 2023-2024
Elected Member, MIT Alumni Association (AASC) Selection Committee, 2021-2024
Visiting Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Program, The Cooper Union, 2021-2022
30th-Anniversary Board Committee, Hurston/Wright Foundation, 2020-2021