Forthcoming Book Manuscripts
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City. New York University Press, New York, N.Y. (Forthcoming, 2016)
Rican-Structing the Roots and Routes of Puerto Rican Music. Co-edited with Juan Flores. Centro Press, New York, N.Y. (Forthcoming)
Journal Articles and Invited Guest Editor
“Rejecting the Shadow: Steve Berrios, An Apache of the Skins, Discusses His Musical Influences, Latin Jazz Music and the Significance of the Fort Apache Band.” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 2004): 184 – 193
“Memorializing La Lupe and Lavoe: Singing Vulgarity, Transnationalism, and Gender.” Co-author with Frances R. Aparicio. Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 2004): 78 – 101
Invited Guest Editor (with Juan Flores). Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Special Issue on Puerto Rican Music: Roots and Routes. Part I. Volume 16, No. 1. Spring 2004
Invited Guest Editor (with Juan Flores). Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Special Issue on Puerto Rican Music: Roots and Routes. Part II. Volume 16, No. 2. Fall 2004
Refereed Book Chapters
“El Hombre que Respira Debajo del Agua: Performing Memory and Diasporicity through the Death of Héctor Lavoe.” 161 – 186. Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music. Edited by Lise Waxer. New York: Routledge Press 2002
“‘Nothing Connects us all but Imagined Sounds’: Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Héctor Lavoe.” 207 – 233. Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City. Co-Edited by Agustín Laó-Montes and Arlene Davila. New York: Columbia University Press. 2001
Book Reviews
Book Review. Puerto Rican Arrival in New York: Narratives of the Migration, 1920-1950. Juan Flores (ed.) New West Indian Guide Vol. 83, No. 1 & 2 (2009): 149-152
Book Review. From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz. Raul Fernandez. Latino Studies Vol. 6 No. 3 (Fall 2008): 348-354
Essays In Progress
“Stephen Adly Guirgis’ ‘The Mother F***er with the Hat’: ‘Down the Mean Streets’ of Transcendental Addictions and the Poetics of Representation on the Proscenium Stage”
“Empires and Citizenship: Teaching Puerto Rican Studies from a Circum-Atlantic Perspective” (co-author with José Amador)
“Salsa con Maple Syrup: Salsa Music Scenes in New England”
DISSERTATION
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present. Dissertation Committee Members: Frances R. Aparicio and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (co-chairs), Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, and Alexandra M. Stern
Best Dissertation Award in Latina/o Studies, Latin American Studies Association, 2012