Degrees

Ph.D. Latin-American Literature. Princeton University. 1987.
M.A. Latin-American Literature. Princeton University. 1984.
B.A. Hispanic Literature and Philosophy. Florida International University. 1982.

Teaching Experience

State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989-present. Associate Professor.
Washington University in St. Louis, 1986-1989. Assistant Professor.
Princeton University, 1982-1986. Teaching Assistant.

Grants

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in the Humanities. Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Spring 1996.

Research Development Grant. State University of New York, Stony Brook, Summer 1990.

Underrepresented Faculty Minority Groups. State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1989.

Publications

Books:

Textos cruciales: usos del relato de vida. Mérida, Venezuela, Universidad de los Andes Press, 2000.

Pedir de boca. Barcelona: Casiopea Editores, 2000. [Short stories]

Articles:

"Montejo, Barnet, el cimarronaje y la escritura de la historia," Inti, Primavera-Otoño, Nos. 29-30 (1989): 3-16.

"Juan Francisco Manzano: el estilo bárbaro de la nación," Hispamérica, Año XX, No. 60 (1991): 3-22.

"Hacer hablar: La transcripción testimonial," Eds. John Beverley and Hugo Achugar. La voz del otro: testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa. Special issue of Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Año XVIII, No. 36 (1992): 181-199.

"Jesús Díaz: Politics of Self-Narration in Cuba," Latin American Literary Review, Volume XXI, No. 41 (January-June 1993): 65-78.

"Bicultural Subjects and an Ethics of Circulating in and out of Ethnicities," Apuntes posmodernos/Postmodern Notes.

"Samuel Beckett en La Habana: Escrituras bilingües y sujetos biculturales". Iván de la Nuez (editor). La isla posible. Barcelona, Ediciones Destino / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 1995.

"José María Heredia, José Martí: Imaginación de la tierra," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), 30 (1996): 23-40.

"Mayra Montero: Las islas del deseo", Revista La Torre, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

"Narraciones obscenas: Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Zoé Valdés", in Janett Reinstadler and Ottmar Ette (editors). Todas las islas la isla. Nuevas y novísimas tendencias en la literatura y cultura de Cuba. Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana, 2000. Pp. 177-192.

"The Nation without a Story", in Damián J. Fernández and Madeline Cámara (editors). Cuba, the Elusive Nation. Interpretations of National Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Pp. 177-199.

Papers Read:

"Esteban Montejo o el cimarronaje de la historia," Symposium on Latin-American Historical Novel, Department of Romance Languages, Tulane University, November 1985.

"Testimoniar para reescribir el pasado," Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins College, February 1987.

"Montejo/Barnet: la escritura y el cimarronaje," Latin American Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, March 1988.

"La transcripción testimonial," Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, February, 1989.

"Juan Francisco Manzano: el estilo bárbaro de la nación," Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, March, 1990.

"The Historical Novel in Latin America," Department of History and the Liberal Studies Program, Florida International University, Miami, October, 1990.

"D.F. Sarmiento y la escritura de la vida del otro," Simposio Internacional de Literatura: Literatura como intertextualidad, Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción", Asunción, Paraguay, July, 1991.

"Jesús Díaz: Critique of Political Reason," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October, 1991.

"Politics of Self-Narration in Contemporary Cuba," Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literature, New Orleans, February, 1993.

"'Mestizaje' and its Discontents: Da Cunha, Quiroga, and Borges," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, St. Louis, October, 1993.

"Mayra Montero: Las islas del deseo," IV International Symposium of Literary Criticism and Latin-American Women's Writing, Guadalajara, Mexico, December, 1993.

"The Politics of Ethnicity in Cuba: Notes on Antonio Benítez Rojo's 'La cuestión del negro en tres momentos del nacionalismo literario cubano'," The Caribbean Between Empires. A Symposium, Princeton University, May, 1994.

"Manzano: escritura, agencia, la mirada del negrero." Program in Latin American Studies/Romance Languages, Princeton University, 15 February 1995; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University, 22 February 1995.

"Talking About Cuba: Déjà Vu All Over Again?" Department of Foreign Languages, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, April 1995.

"Samuel Beckett en La Habana: Escrituras bilingües y sujetos biculturales". Conference on Contemporary Cuban Culture, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain, May 1995.

"Negreros y hermenéutica: Raza y narración de los orígenes en Cirilo Villaverde y Ramón de Palma". Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1995.

"The Slave Trader's Gaze/A Cuban Slave Narrative". Department of Spanish, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussets, February 1996.

"Absolut Island: Del drama a la estetización de la insularidad". Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, May 1996.

"Narraciones de obscenidad: Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas y Zoé Valdés". Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. March 1999.

Work in Progress

Books:

Book-length essay on Walter Benjamin, twentieth-century painting and the culture of terror.

Translations:

"Sarduy, the Boom and the Post-Boom," by Roberto González Echevarría. Latin American Literary Review, XV.29 (1987).

Editorial Activities

Co-founder and co-editor, Apuntes posmodernos/Postmodern Notes, (1990-present). [A bilingual, cultural and literary journal, published bi-annually in Miami, Florida.]