Research
My research focuses on the literary and historical ties between Spain and Africa and how those ties are narrated and politicized.
I am currently working on a book manuscript titled "Literary Africa: Spanish Reflections of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea in the Contemporary Novel, 1990-2012," and in it I analyze works by authors such as Donato Ndongo, Javier Reverte, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, Lorenzo Silva, Montserrat Abumalham, and others.
Most recently, I have been developing projects on Ángel Ganivet and Spanish colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publications:
I am currently working on a book manuscript titled "Literary Africa: Spanish Reflections of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea in the Contemporary Novel, 1990-2012," and in it I analyze works by authors such as Donato Ndongo, Javier Reverte, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, Lorenzo Silva, Montserrat Abumalham, and others.
Most recently, I have been developing projects on Ángel Ganivet and Spanish colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publications:
- Forthcoming: "El último conquistador y el primer rey: África como heterotopía literaria en la ficción de Ángel Ganivet y Pío Baroja" in the volume Castilla bajo mirada extraña: Hacia un imaginario cultural, ed. Jorge González del Pozo.
- "Oikos and the Other: Humanizing the Immigrant in Donato Ndongo’s El metro." In the volume African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Straits, edited by Victoria Ketz and Debra Faszer-McMahon. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2015. Print.
- "Two Poems by Mahan L. Ellison: 'Conversation becomes you' and 'The Sheathing of the Sun'." Black Heart Magazine (14 Jan 2015). Web.
- Review of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, eds. Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 17 (2013). Print.
- "España Transfetana: Writing the Protectorate and the Patria in La llamada del Almuédano and El tiempo entre costuras." Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Special Edition “Bodies and Boundaries: Representations of Contemporary Migration,” guest editor N. Michelle Shepherd (Fall 2012).
- "Easier Said Than Done: Masculinity on the Front Line in Rolando Hinojosa's The Useless Servants and Korean Love Songs." Confluencia, 28.1 (2012).
