Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies
Education
M.F.A. Columbia University, Creative Writing (1998)
Areas of Expertise
Research Interests
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Courses
Scholarship/Creative Work
Recent Chapters
“DNA+Latinx: Complicando the ‘Cosmic Race’.” Critical Diálogos in Latina and Latino Studies. Edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa. New York: NYU Press, forthcoming.
“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.
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Recent Fellowships
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
HTI Open Plaza Editorial Board, Hispanic Theological Initiative, 2019-Present
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 National Board, 2010-Present
Course Websites
DNA+Latinx: Decoding the ‘Cosmic Race’ (LATS 330-01), Spring 2019
- Student work: https://sites.williams.edu/lats330-s19/
The Graphic Narrative: A ‘Global South’ Perspective (LATS 316-01), Fall 2018
- Student work: https://sites.williams.edu/lats316fall18/
We the People in the Stacks: Democracy and Literatures of Archives (LATS 232-01), Spring 2018
- Student work: https://sites.williams.edu/lats232spring18/
Drawing Democracy: Graphic Narratives as Democratic Ideals (LATS 348-01), Fall 2017
- Student work: https://sites.williams.edu/lats348fall17/
- @demosarte oral history project: https://www.instagram.com/demosarte/
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