Research:
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American popular culture
Media Studies
Language politics
Transnational Studies
Community-based pedagogical approaches
Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Gender and Sexuality Studies

Selected Publications

Book and Edited Volumes:

Musical Imagi/Nation: U.S. Colombians and the Latin(o) Music "Boom" (New York: New York University Press, in press)

Co-editor (with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana), "Popular Culture and Youth Latinidades: (Re)Constructing Community, from the Inside and Out" (special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, under review)

Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin(o) America (with Cándida F. Jáquez and Frances R. Aparicio, editors; St. Martin's Press, 2003)

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Singing the ‘Star-Spanglish Banner’: The Politics and Pathologization of Bilingualism in U.S. Popular Media," Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America (Gina M. Pérez, Frank Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, Jr., eds.; under review)

"Whose Musical Imagi/Nation?: Contradictory Discourses of Belonging in 'Nuestro Himno' and 'Reggaetón Latino'" (special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, under review)

“When Hips Make/Mark History: Towards a Transnational Feminist Reading of Latin(a) American Music Video" (special issue of Women and Performance, Alicia Arrizón and Deborah Vargas, eds.; under review)

"Survival Aesthetics: U.S. Latinas and the Negotiation of Popular Media," Latina/o Communication Studies Today (Angharad N. Valdivia, ed.; Peter Lang, 2008)

"Mirando las Estrellas: La Joven Latina en Estados Unidos," Revista Javeriana, Pontificia Universidad Javieriana, Bogotá, Colombia (January/February 2005)

"Miami: From 'Instant City' to Global Music Capital," FORUM/ Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council (Winter 2004)

"Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen: A Case Study of Colombianidad in Transition," Latino Studies, 1.2, 210-232 (2003)

"Columbus Effects": The Politics of Crossover and Chronology within the Latin(o) Music "Boom," Discourse, 23.1, 242-267 (Winter 2001)

"Mucho loco for Ricky Martin, or: The Politics of Chronology, Crossover and Language within the Latin(o) Music 'Boom,'" Popular Music and Society, 24.3, 55-71(Fall 2000)

"El 'Beloved Spic' que no habla English Only: oposición y resistencia en la poesía de Martín Espada, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, XXIV. 3, 517-529 (Spring 2000)

Translations:

"Rock 'n' Roll in Peru's Popular Quarters: Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Transculturation," by Luis A. Ramos-García, in Musical Migrations (St. Martin's Press, 2003)

"La danza de las tijeras in the work of José María Arguedas: The Construction of Indigenous Quechua Identity," by Juan Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar, in Musical Migrations (St. Martin's Press, 2003).

"Rendering the Invisible, Visible and the Visible, Invisible: The Colonizing Function of Bailey K. Ashford's Anti-anemia Campaigns," by Fernando Feliú (Foucault in Latin America, Benigno L. Trigo, editor; Routledge, 2001)

Thesis students:

María Gabriela Chancay '08 (Latina/o Studies), "A Transcultural Approach to Latina Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Identity"

Kiana M. Green '07 (American Studies), "Redefining the Promised Land: The Politics of 20th Century Black American Poetics, Language, and Identity"

José Valenzuela '07 (Latina/o Studies), "Revolución en estéreo, escucha!: Reflections on Reggaetón and Latinidad in the United States"