MANUSCRIPTS

Funny Looking: Latina/o Camp, Humor and Ugly Betty. Co-written with Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. In Progress.

ESSAYS

“A Mainstream Dream? Latinas/os in Primetime Television.” Latinos in American Popular Culture. Patricia M. Montilla, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger. Forthcoming.

“The Gothic in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters (1997).”  MELUS.  37.3 Fall 2012: 117-139.

“Emplumada but Grounded (for Life?): The ‘Bad’ Girls in Bird Ave.” Stunned Into Being: Critical Essays on Lorna Dee Cervantes. Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, ed. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2011.

“Is Ugly the New Sexy? The Complexities of Latina Sexuality on Ugly Betty.” Chicana/Latina Studies. 9:2 Fall 2010.

“Art, Activism, and Community: An Introduction to Latina/o Literature.” Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children’s Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

“The (Gothic) Gift of Death in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (2001).” Chicana/Latina Studies. 7:1 Fall 2007. Link to article.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak and Nancy Sullivan.  Languages and Literatures in the Borderlands. (UP of Mississippi, 2009, 161p) in Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature. 35:1 Winter 2011.