Works in Progress
Malcriadas: Feminist Disobedience in Latinx Young Adult and Children’s Literature (book manuscript)
Books:
Healing Memories: Puerto Rican Women’s Literature in the United States, University of Pittsburgh Press, January 2019.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Race, Class, and Masculinity in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” Frontiers, Fall 2022.
“Latina Feminist Agency: Manifestations of a New Mestiza Consciousness in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Children’s Books,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 46:2, Summer 2021.
“Medicinal History: the future of the past” Rethinking History, 12:2, June, 2008.
“The Making of the Curandera Historian: Aurora Levins Morales” Centro Journal, Spring 2005.
“’Degrees of Puertoricanness’: A Gendered Look at Esmeralda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican” Latino Studies, Fall 2004.
Book Chapters
“Healing Narratives: Historical Representations in Latinx Young Adult Literature,” Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, co-edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikic and Mario Grill, Routledge, Fall 2022.
Book Reviews:
“Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative by Christina Garcia Lopez” Chasqui, 50.1, May 2021.
“Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland by Marisel C. Moreno” Centro Journal, Fall 2013.
“Book Review of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture by Frances Negron-Muntaner,” Centro Journal, Spring 2007.
“Book Review of Latino Boom eds. John S. Christie and Jose B. Gonzalez” Centro Journal, Fall 2006.
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Aurora Levins Morales,” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Esmeralda Santiago,” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Nicholasa Mohr,” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“El Comite,” Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. NY: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
“League of United Latin American Citizens,” Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. NY: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
“Mexican American Student Organizations,” Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. NY: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
“Movement for Independence,” Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. NY: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
“Salt of the Earth Strike,” Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. NY: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
Other Publications:
“Jennifer De Leon’s White Space a Review,” Blog Post, Latino Stories, September 6, 2021. https://latinostories.com/white-space-review/
“Documenting the Silencing of Latinx Voices” Blog Post, Latino Stories, June 22, 2021. https://latinostories.com/silencing-latinx-voices/
“Hope, Thy Name is Lina,” Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, ed. Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Susan Sanchez-Casal. FL: Health Communications, Inc. pp. 123-125.
