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    • Caribbean and Latin American Literature
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Writing

Journal Article

  • “‘Discourses of Displacement’ in the Ethnography of Léon-Gontran Damas and Poetry of Charles Baudelaire.” Dalhousie French Studies. No. 116 (2020). Ed. Kathleen Gyssels.

Op-eds

  • “Una historia colonial detrás del lanzamiento del telescopio espacial Webb.” El Salto, 2022.
  • “El especial de Netflix de Los Tigres del Norte en la prisión Folsom no aborda el tema de la criminalización de los latinos.” Los Angeles Times, 2020.
  • “Teaching Junot Díaz in a Texas Jail.” The Atlantic, 2015.

Conference Proceeding

  • “Marassa and Mestiza Consciousness: Comparing Danticat and Anzaldúa.” El Mundo Zurdo 5. Domino Renee Perez, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull (editors). Aunt Lute, 2016.

Book Reviews

  • “Michael Reyes Salas reviews French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony by Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi.” Asymptote. Winter 2022.
  • “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie.” Ethnic and Third World Literature’s Review of Books. 18 (2018).
  • “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore,” Ethnic and Third World Literature’s Review of Books. 17 (2017).
  • “The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent by Suzanne Césaire.” Ethnic and Third World Literature’s Review of Books. 16 (2016).
  • “Reports by Who Profits? Research Center.’” Ethnic and Third World Literature’s Review of Books. 15 (2015).      

Graduate Blog

  • Revista Pterodáctilo

Stageplay

  • “Hard Press.” Emerging American Voices: Stories for the 21st Century. Citrus College: Haugh Performing Arts Center. November 2011.

Undergraduate Journal

  • “How Fictive Narrative Modes Produce ‘Truth’ through Self-Criticism: Realism & Allegory in Daniel Defoe & Ibn Tufayl.” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Journal (2013): 46-49.

Unpublished Work

  • “Fragments of Carceral Memory: Abolitionist Narratives in Literature and Penal Heritage Commemoration.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin. August 2020.
  • “Institutionally Complicit: Challenging Leadership Orthodoxies in Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs.” UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender Papers. Retrieved from escholarship.org, May 2019.
  • “Reading Urban Environments: French Exiles in the Poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Ethnography of Léon-Gontran Damas.” Master’s Report. Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin. May 2016. 
  • “Island Narrative Pedagogy: Instructing Autodidacticism To Encourage Social Critique.” Highest Honors: Research Thesis. UCLA: Department of English. Retrieved from: escholarship.org, March 2014.
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