Published Books
Mestizo Modernism: Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers U P. May 2003.
Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-first Century. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015..
Articles and Book Chapters
“Teaching Matters of Class and Style with Chica Lit.” Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching. Ed. Frederick Aldama. New York, NY: Routledge University Press. 2015.
“History is What Hurts: Queer Temporalities and Alien Feelings in Gloria Anzaldúa.” Cultural History. Special Issue. Ed. Gregory Smithers. 4.1 (2015): 64-86.
“Neoliberalism and Orientalism in Puerto Rico: Walter Mercado’s Queer Spiritual Capital.” CENTRO: Journal of Puerto Rican Studies. 25.1 (Spring 2013): 180-209. Print.
“From House on Mango Street to Becoming Latina.” La Nueva Literatura Hispánica. Special Issue: Latino Passport: Travel, Culture and Identity in US Latino Literature. Editor, Ignacio Rodeño. Valladolid, Spain: Editorial Universitas Castellae. 15:1 (Spring 2012), pp. 23-45.Print.
“Of Indians and Modernity in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza.” Review of International American Studies (RIAS). Special Issue: Modernity’s Moderns, History’s Hemi/Spheres: Hemi/Spheres. Edited by Cyraina Johnson. 4.2-4.3 (Fall/Spring 2009/2010): 49-65. Online.
“Queering the Cosmic Race: Esotericism, Mestizaje, and Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral and Gloria Anzaldúa.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 34.2 (Fall 2009): 67-98. Print.
“Mãe é para isso (Mother is for This): Gender, Writing and English-Language Translation in Clarice Lispector.” Luso-Brazilian Review. 41.2 (2005): 56-83. Print.
“Bloodlines that Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies.” Ed. DK Cummings, AG Jones, J Rice. Souths, Global and Local. Special issue of Southern Quarterly.42.1 (Fall 2003): 39-52. Print.
Tace Hedrick and Debra King. “Women of Color and Feminist Criticism: Theorizing Love.” Ed. Julian Wolfreys. Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century. New York, NY: Columbia U P, 2002. 57-85. Print.
“Are You a Pura Latina? High Heels and Ethnicity.” Ed. Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferris. Footnotes: On Shoes. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers U P, 2001: 135-155. Print.
“Mi dulce y andina Rita: Women, Indigenism, and the Avant-Garde in César Vallejo.” Ed. Erik Camayd-Freixas and José E. González. Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture. Tuscon, AZ: U of Arizona P, 2000: 241-266. Print.
“The Perimeters of Our Wandering are Nowhere: Breaching the Domestic in Housekeeping.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 40.2 (Winter 1998): 137-151. Print.
“Mother, Blessed Be You Among Cockroaches: Essentialism, Fecundity, and Death in Clarice Lispector.” Luso-Brazilian Review. 34.2 (1997): 41-58. Print.
“Spik in Glyph? Translation, Wordplay, and Resistance in Chicano Bilingual Poetry.”The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. 2.2 (1996): 141-160. Print.
“Rigoberta’s Earrings: The Limits of Teaching Testimonio.” Ed. Allen Carey-Webb, Stephen Connely Benz. Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú in the North American Classroom. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1995: 223-236. Print.
“Y hembra es el alma mía: Stumbling Over the Female Body in César Vallejo’s Trilce.” Latin American Literary Review.22 (1994): 51-66. Print.