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Libros / Scholarly Books

1. Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence. Vanderbilt University Press. Julio del 2023.

   1. Reviewed in Bulletin of Spanish Studies CII (2025, p.75) by Nathanial Gardner

   2. Reviewed in Chasqui. Revista de literatura y cultura latinoamericana e indígena (2025) by Daniel Medel Barragán

   3. Briefly Noted in Survival. Global Politics and Strategy 67.3 (2025)

   4. Briefly Noted in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries(Vol. 61, Issue 4),

Traducciones / Scholarly Translations

1. Price, Brian. El culto a la derrota. (2022: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). Spanish Translation of The Cult of Defeat in Mexican Historical Fiction. Translation from English.

2. Sánchez Prado, Ignacio. La proyección del neoliberalismo: La transformación del cine mexicano, 1990-2012. (2019: Vanderbilt UP). Spanish Translation of Screening Neoliberalism: The Transformation of Mexican Cinema, 1990-2012. Translation from English.

Ensayos / Essays

1. “Labor, Colonization, and the Freedom from Restraint in Nicolás Pizarro Suárez's El monedero (1861)." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 28 no. 1, 2024, p. 39-57.

2. "Postmodern in a Domestic Sense: Carlos Pabón and the Postmodern Critique of the Nation in Puerto Rico, 1993–2003" The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation (2025), edited by S. Talpaz & A.D Needham.

3. “La ortodoxa excentricidad de Daniel Sada: campo literario, recepción y las ansiedades de la crítica, 1979–1989”. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2024) 40 (3): 404–431.

4. “The Literary Labour of Ants: Refabulation, Digression, and Utopian Form in Daniel Sada’s Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe (1999)”. Humanimalia 15:1 (2024)

5. “La disposición censoria: las dos vidas de Fernández de Lizardi y las sensibilidades conservadoras en México”. Revista Letral 31 (2023): 145-165.

6. “La impresión conservadora: los hermanos Uribe y Alcalde y el campo tipográfico del primer conservadurismo mexicano, 1828-1834”. Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production 19.2 (Summer, 2022).

7. “Instituent Fictions: The Exceptional Present, the Junta Nacional Instituyente and Mexico’s First Post-Independence Fiscal Plan (1822)” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30:3 (2021: 323-348).

8. “Theological Aesthesis: A Reading of the Mexican Catholic Newspaper La Cruz (1855-1858).”  Sensibilidades conservadoras, edited by  Kari Soriano Slavjeik. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert (2021): 353-373.

9. “Satire and The Lie of Politics: El Mono (México, March 1833-June 1833)” Tiempo Histórico 20 (July 2020: 17-35).

10.  “Libertad para los feos: fealdad y libertad en Luces artificiales de Daniel Sada (2002)” (Hispanófila 188. (Summer 2020: 115-130).  

11. “Cruel Dispositions: Queer Literature, the Contemporary Puerto Rican Literary Field and Luis Negrón’s Mundo cruel (2010).” Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture, edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2018): 157-186.

12. “Literary Obstinacy: Violence and the Literary in Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da (2008)”. Hispanic Studies Journal 1:1 (Fall 2016: 46-56).

13. “The Estate Must be Protected! The Necessity of Restraint in Roa Bárcena’s La quinta modelo (1857)” Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production 13.1 (Winter, 2016): 87-105.

14. “El peligro del ludita: Vagancia, técnica, humanismo en la ensayística de Guillermo Fadanelli”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 48:3 (Fall, 2014): 449-470.

15. “Ética cosmopolita en El jardín devastado y Oscuro bosque oscuro de Jorge Volpi” Confluencias 28:1 (Spring, 2013):107-120.