PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research and teaching areas: 20th century US poetry; Latina/o literatures; 20th century Latin American poetry; and critical theory focusing on space and place.       

I teach courses in 20th century "American" poetry, both in its narrowly national register (the US) and in its broader hemispheric meaning (the Americas). I also teach courses on Latina/o literatures and multi-ethnic US literatures. My current research examines conceptions of space and place in Latina/o and Latin American poetry and the ways that poets across the Americas attempt to understand and contest the upheavals of neoliberalism.

I have published a book of criticism, American Political Poetry into the 21st Century, a chapbook of poems, The Coriolis Effect, and poems in anthologies and publications such as Aethlon, Appalachian Journal, Now & Then, Kestrel, J Journal, and Main Street Rag, among others. Articles appear or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Popular Music and Society, College Literature, MELUS, Hispanic Review, and Appalachian Journal. I was recently a faculty fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/).

I am on research leave for the 2010-2011 academic year.