Literary Essays

• “What Remains.” Pangyrus (forthcoming).
• “The Shape of Walking.” Joyland, 23 February 2022.
• “Performance and Emotion in the Boston T: J.S. Bach’s Chaconne.” Bandcamp, 26 August 2021.
• “Exhaustion and Rest: Motherhood and Creativity.” Literary Mama, November/December 2020.
• “Azalea.” (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Pact Press, 11 March 2021.
• “The Water Poet.” Asymptote, Jan. 2017.
• “FLIP 2014.” North American Review, 25 Aug. 2014.
• “Rational Animal.” Words Without Borders. 17 Mar. 2014.

Journalism

• “What the Pandemic Teaches About the Need for Parental Leave.” The Washington Post, 4 March 2021.
• “Increasing Diversity in Academic Hiring.” Co-written with Bryan Betancur. Inside Higher Ed, 9 May 2018.
• Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri. Asymptote. 16 Apr. 2018.
• “America’s Great Social Media Divide.” Co-written with Bryan Betancur. Fair Observer, 20 Jan. 2017.
• “Tackling the affordable-housing crisis in a gentrifying Southern city.” Facing South, 10 Aug. 2017.
• “Overcoming Partisanship in America: My Neighbor’s Voice.” Fair Observer, 9 Jun. 2017.
• “‘Information War’ Fuels Political Crisis in Brazil.” Truthdig, 22 Mar. 2016.
• “Díselo Ahora: Why a Sentence Spoken in Spanish Matters.” Truthdig, 20 Feb. 2016.
• “Brazil and Social Inequality: The People, Politics, and the World Cup.” Fair Observer, 7 Jun. 2014. Web.
• “Google, Duolingo, and the Problems of Internet Translation” Fair Observer, 28 Mar. 2014.
• “Brazil and the Exportation of Culture.” Fair Observer, 1 Oct. 2012.

Academic Publications

• “Translating the Mexican Revolution: El águila y la serpiente in the United States.” Hispanófila 186 (June 2019): 67-83.
• “A Glutton for Books.” Ransom Center Magazine, vol. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 20-22. This article is also available in Spanish and in Portuguese translation.
• “Between the Good Neighbor Policy and the Latin American ‘Boom’: Brazilian Literature in the United States.” Belas Infiéis 2 (2015): 115-127.
• “De la page à l’écran, distorsions idéologiques dans “O que é isso, companheiro?” (Brésil, 1979 -Brésil/USA, 1997)”. Trans. Martin Siloret. Cinéma et Turbulences Politiques en Amérique Latine. Eds. Jimena Paz Obregón Iturra and Adela Pineda Franco. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. This article is also available in Spanish.
• Review in English: Cifuentes-Goodbody, Nicholas. The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa: Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World2 (Fall 2016).
• Review in Portuguese: João Cezar de Castro Rocha, ed. Antropofagia Hoje?: Oswald de Andrade em Cena. The Latin Americanist, 56.2 (Jun. 2012): 196-198.
• Review in Spanish: Escalante, Emilio del Valle. Nacionalismos mayas y desafíos postcoloniales en Guatemala in The Latin Americanist, 55.2 (Jun. 2011): 96-98.

Poetry

My poetry has been published in Literary Mama, The Café Review, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and Mőbius, The Poetry Magazine. For translations of poetry, see my translations.