Research
American and Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing (poetry and creative non-fiction), Mexican American Literature
PUBLICATIONS
“Unsettled Memory: Meditations on Contested Ground,” Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature, Ed. Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson. U of Edinburgh P, 2012. 277-84.
“The
Bodies of Others: A Meditation on the Environs of Reading J.M.
Coetzee’s Disgrace, and Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood.” Encountering Disgrace: Reading and Teaching Coetzee’s Novel. Ed. William McDonald. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2009. 313-29.
“Milagros.” We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Ed. Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel. Northampton, MA.: Interlink Books, 2007. 246-47.
“Abrazos y Despedidas: Saving Memory in John Phillip Santos’s Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.” Literatures in English in the Context of Post-Colonialism, Postmodernism, and the Present. Ed. Jaroslav Kušnír. Prešov, Slovakia: Prešovská Univerzita v Prešove, 2007. 179-86.
“Writing War, Writing Memory: Remembering June Jordan.” Features: Articles. The Poetry Foundation. 15 Aug. 2006. Web. 22 Oct. 2009. Reprint.
Writing War, Writing Memory.” Still Seeking and Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan. Ed. Valerie Kinloch and Margret Grebowicz. New York: Lexington, 2004. 243-55.