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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Twentieth-century American literature, Twentieth-century Latin American literature, critical theory, photography

Degrees

PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Literary Materialisms. Edited with Mathias Nilges (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)
• "Faulkner and His Brothers: Modernism, Crisis, and the Latin American 'Boom'" (currently under review)
• "Cognitive Mapping, Then and Now: Postmodernism, Indecision, and American Literary Globalism," Twentieth-Century Literature 57.3-4 (fall/winter 2011) 472-491.
• "A la pinche modernidad': Literary Form and the End of History in Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes." MLN 125.2 (March 2010): 406-432.

Additional Information

Current Projects

Boom and Bust: Nation, Crisis, and Literary Form in the Long Twentieth Century (book manuscript in preparation)

Book Reviews

"Make It New (Again)," review of Race and the Modernist Imagination, by Urmila Seshagiri, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (forthcoming).

Review of A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties, by Diana Sorensen. The Americas 65.2 (Oct. 2008) 260-262.

Translations

"An Audacious Book." Translation from Portuguese to English of "Um livro audacioso" by Roberto Schwarz. Mediations, forthcoming.

"The Relevance of Brecht: High Points and Low." Translation from Portuguese to English of "Os altos e baixos da atualidade de Brecht," by Roberto Schwarz. Mediations 23.3 (Fall 2007): 27-61. http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-relevance-of-brecht

"Brazil in the South Atlantic: 1550-1850." Translation from French to English of "Le versant brésilienne de l'Atlantique-Sud: 1550-1850," by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro. Mediations 23.3 (Fall 2007): 124-175. http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/brazil-in-the-south-atlantic

Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Special Topics: Literatures of the Americas; Literature and the Political Imagination; Post-1945 American Literature; Six American Authors

Graduate: Special Topics: Literatures of the Americas; Debates and Keywords in Literary Theory and Criticism; Studies in Criticism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Novel

Co-faculty sponsor (with Professors Matthew Brown and Scott Maisano): Literary Theory Reading Group

Professional Service

Director, Concentration in Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures at UMass Boston

Editorial Board, Mediations (www.mediationsjournal.org)