Research:
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Theater & Performance
Music and Dance in the Afro-Latin Diaspora
Border Art, migration and transnational identities
New Technology and Video Production
Post-Colonial Theory, Gender, Race and Sexuality

Selected Publications

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Rumba's Democratic Circle in the Age of Legal Simulacra," Performing the U.S. Latino Borderlands, eds. Peter García, Chela Sandoval, and Arturo Sandoval (Forthcoming, Spring 2010)

“Zero Tolerance: Central Park Rumba Cabildo Politics." Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. (Vol. 5, No. 4, November 2009)

“Rumba a la Boricua: Hybrid Identity and Performative Memory in Central Park Rumba." Centro Journal. Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, The City University of New York. Cultural Nationalisms issue. (Forthcoming Spring, 2009)

“The Acoustic Body: Rumba Guarapachanguera and Abakuá Sociality in the 1990s." Latin American Music Review/Revista de música Latinoamericana. University of Texas (Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2009)

“Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform." Ed. Diana Taylor & Roselyn Costantino. Book review (Theater Journal. Vol. 58, Number 2, May 2006): 373- 375

Berta Jottar and Roman Díaz, "Rumba," Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Peter J. García, and Arturo J. Aldama, eds. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2004)

Interview, "On Border Performativity,"Remote Sensing, Laboratories of Art and Science, Baumann, Gowhler, and Loreck, eds. (Vice Versa Verlag, 2002)

Biemann & Jottar, "Performing Borders: Gender and Technology in Diasporic Culture,"Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, Floyd, Kelkar, Klein-Franke, Kramarae, and Limpangog, eds. (International Women's University, 2000)

Movimientos discursivos del cuerpo: Reflexiones sobre performance y Light Up the Border, Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, ed. (Cádiz, Spain, 2000)

"Diary" in Speakin' With The Mouth Full, Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin, Duke University Press, 1998: 338-424

"Work en Progress: Intervenciones Across d'Line," Video Networks Vol. 16, No. 4 (1992): 21-28