Research Interests
While my primary area of study covers twentieth- and twenty first-century Latin American narrative and culture, with an emphasis on the Caribbean and the Southern Cone, I am also interested in
My book-length study titled Social Spatializations and Anxieties in Latino Los Angeles’s Cultural Production, which focuses on the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles as depicted in Chicano and Latina cultural production from different theoretical perspectives, including ecocriticism, post-nationalism, gender studies, and cultural studies, is under review by a university press.
I am currently writing a book tentatively entitled Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Asian Diaspora in Peru's Cultural Production, which will offer an analysis of the cultural production dealing with the Chinese and Japanese presence in
In my publications I usually concentrate on the relations between Latin American thought, human rights, authoritarianism, and ethnicity. From this perspective, I have published two books dealing with authoritarianism and ethnicity in the Latin American Southern Cone: Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present (Routledge, 2001)
and Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963-2000 (Mellen Press, 2002).
My third and fourth books, “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005)
and Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2008) deal with the representation of dictatorship, Chineseness, and human rights violations in Caribbean cultural production.
I have also edited the book Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond (2007). Read the introduction and the first chapter.
and co-edited Caminos para
Finally, I have also published extensively on Latin American poetry and Modernismo in particular.
