Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., Literature — University of California, San Diego, 2015
M.A., English — University of New Mexico, 2008
B.A., English & Spanish — University of New Mexico, 2005
Books
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Co-editor, with Karen Roybal, Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
Selected Articles & Chapters
"Intersections: Frictions, Contradictions, and Simultaneities of Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century Americas." Transgender Studies Quarterly 13.1 (2026).
"The Other Meaning of Border: A Memoir of 'Not on that Border.'" Journal of the Southwest 67.1 (2025).
"Archival Absence, Archival Excess." American Studies Journal 63.2 (2024).
"We Are Not Here Yet." Critical Times 7.2 (2024).
"Dying to Be Beautiful: (Re)Membering the Women of Juárez." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 46 (2018).
"Remapping America: Rewriting Space in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?" Comparative Literature and Culture 11.2 (2009).
Fellowships & Awards
OVPR Ovation Award for Research & Scholarship — UNM, 2024
Book of the Year, NACCS, 2024 · Mid-Career Book of the Year, AAHHE, 2024
Honorable Mention, Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award, NWSA, 2023
Distinguished Feminist Research Lecture Award — UNM Feminist Research Institute, 2021
Visiting Faculty Researcher — UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2017–2018
New Mexico Minority Doctoral Fellowship, 2010–2014
Service & Mentorship
Faculty Mentor — Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, UNM, 2025–present
Career Enhancement Mentor — Citizens & Scholars, 2026
Co-founder, Fronteristxs Collective — border art & writer collective
PhD dissertation chair & graduate advising in Chicanx/Latinx literature, borderlands, and Marxist theory
Editorial boards & journal reviewer — Aztlán, MELUS, Latino Studies, Latinx Talk
