Monograph

Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America: Noteworthy Protagonists. Literatures of the Americas Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.

Refereed Articles and Essays in Academic Anthologies

“Chilean English as a Mother Tongue.” English Studies in Canada – A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism. English Studies in Canada – A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism, no. 18 (January 2020) ISSN: 0719-9139.

“The Heavens Look Down Upon Us: José Enrique Rodó and the Spirit of América,” History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Asher Ghaffar, ed. New York: Routledge, 2018. 167-182.

“Popular Music Genres.” A Companion to Popular Culture. Gary Burns, ed. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. 123-143.

“As the Sun Set on Europe: Marvelous Realism and a New Place for America.” Atlantic Studies Journal: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives. 9.2 (2012): 127-41.

“Sounds from Nowhere: Musical Protagonists by Alejo Carpentier and Zora Neale Hurston.” Comparative American Studies. 10.1 (2012): 30-44.

“Whose Diaspora is This Anyway?: Peruvians, Japanese Perhaps, and Dekasegi.” Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Communities Unsettle the Nation-State. Aloys Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale, and Cody McCarroll, eds. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2011. 293-321.

“Hearing through Our Eyes: Musical Archives and Authentic Performance.” Popular Music and Society. Special Issue: Popular Music as Cultural Heritage. 31.4 (October 2008): 511-527.

“Tiras, timbres y estereotipos: el negro Memín Pinguín y la manipulación de la cultura popular con representaciones étnicas.” [“Comic Strips, Stamps, and Stereotypes: Black Memín Pinguín and the Manipulation of Popular Culture with Ethnic Representations.”] Culturas Populares [Popular Cultures] No. 5. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (July-December 2007) ISSN: 1886-5623.

“Che y Teddy: el desarrollo de imágenes populares en la pantalla grande.” [“Che and Teddy: The Development of Popular Images on the Big Screen.”] Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios. [Speculum: Journal of Literary Studies.] Universidad Complutense de Madrid. No. 32 (March 2006) ISSN: 1139-3637.

“Salsa Criticism at the Turn of the Century: Identity Politics and Authenticity.” Popular Music and Society. 28:1 (2005): 35-54.

Book Reviews and Scholarly Forum Articles

Book Review of A Latin American Music Reader: Views from the South, Pensar la música desde América Latina: Problemas e interrogantes, and Thinking about Music from Latin America: Issues and Questions. Popular Music and Society, 42:2 (2019): 253-56.

Art Exhibition Review of Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles. Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 4.1 (Spring 2018), http://journalpanorama.org/transpacific-borderlands

Book Review of Music in Disney’s Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book by James Bohn. Popular Music and Society, 41.3 (2018): 339-41.

Book Review of “Mark Laver. 2015. Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning.” Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique. 35.2 (2 March 2018).

“Review of Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-wing Politics in 1930s America, by Ronald D. Cohen.” Popular Music and Society, 41.1 (2018): 94-96.

“Aspiring to True Multilingualism.” PMLA. Modern Language Association 130.1 (January 2015): 167-9.

“Milton and Religious Violence.” PMLA. Modern Language Association (March 2006): 546.

Refereed Conferences and Invited Talks

Plenary Talk: “Chilean English: The Place of Chilean Students in the History of Language and Literature.” 9 August 2019, Third Colloquium in Applied Linguistics and Language Education. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

“Latent Latin Americanism.” 4 January 2019, Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago.

“Tierra Prometida – Spain as Jewish Past and Future.” 18 March 2016, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“Canciones que critican” [Songs that Critique]. 6 January 2014, Alexander von Humboldt International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile.

“De la vallenata-bachata a la two-beat repeat: un discurso rítmico sobre la música americana.” 30 May 2013, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington DC.

“José Watanabe y la palabra del huso.” 5 April 2013, Romance Languages and Literatures Conference (RLL), University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

“Con palabras y notas: Zora Neale Hurston y las orillas norteñas del Caribe.” [With Words and Notes: Zora Neale Hurston and the Nothern Shores fo the Caribbean] 1 August 2012. Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latino Americana (JALLA), Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

“Seers and Seraphim: A Journalistic Explanation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel.” 9 January 2011, Modern Language Association (MLA), Los Angeles.

“What Happened: los idiomas de salsa.” 29 December 2006, Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia.

“From Cuzco to California: José Watanabe and Naomi Quiñones in the Nikkei Diaspora.” 30 March 2006, National Association of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco.

“Forgive Me for Staining This Sacred Land with My Blood: Peruvian Nikkei Literature.” 8 April 2005, (dis)junctions: theory reloaded, University of California at Riverside.

“Whirled Music While U Wait.” 5 March 2005, Northern California Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology, University of California at Berkeley.