Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• “The Inconvenience of Revolution: Zapatismo, Cynicism and Memory.” A Contracorriente, 15.1 (Fall 2017), 216-239. 
• “Nómadas, desempleados y suicidas: racionalidad neoliberal y subjetividades alternas en la literatura centroamericana de postguerra” [Nomads, Suicides and the Unemployed: Neoliberal Rationality and Alternate Subjectivities in Central American Postwar Literature]. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 50:3 (October 2016), 604-27. 
• “A Reasonable Senselessness: Madness, Sovereignty and Neoliberal Reason in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 23:4 (2014), 381-399.
• Brasilia or the Limitations of Theory. Agora: The Urban Planning and Design Journal of the University of Michigan 2 (2008), 23-7.

Other Academic Publications

• “Review of Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo.” Ed. by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh, eds. Valencia: Albatros, 2016. Chasqui 46.2 (November 2017), R21-23. 
• “Guerrillas in Latin America.” In Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies: A Metahistory of Material Practices of Power. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. London: Wiley-Blackwell. 2016. 
• Guatemala, 2015: (Pre)sintiendo el futuro [dossier on Guatemala’s 2015 political crisis]. Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos, No 31 (2016). Editor and Coordinator (with Karen Ponciano).

Other Publications

• Javier Payeras o la precariedad del narrador [Javier Payeras or the narrator’s precarity]. Published jointly by the on-line magazines Plaza Pública (Guatemala) and Literofilia (Costa Rica) in August 2015, and by Revista Cronopio (Bogota, Colombia) in November 2015. 
• “Esta boca no es mía” [This mouth is not mine]. La Cuerda: miradas feministas de la realidad 15.175 (febrero 2015): 10.
• “Entre la Insensatez y el Ruido de fondo: el doble trauma de la Guatemala de posguerra” [Between Senselessness and Background Noise: The Double Trauma of Postwar Guatemala]. Revista Cultura 111 (septiembre-diciembre 2013): 105-114.
• “Las luchas del D.F.: Crónica enmascarada” [The Struggles of Mexico City: A Masked Chronicle]. Rara 7 (Abril-Junio 2012): 44-9.
• “Leyendo a Borges en McDonalds: el no-lugar del capitalismo globalizado y globalizante” [Reading Borges in McDonalds: The No-Place of Globalized and Globalizing Capitalism]. Revista Cultural de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala 17 (Julio-Septiembre 2010): 46-52.
• “Peces, iguanas, centavos y balas: los noventa y el rock en Guatemala” [Fish, Iguanas, Cents and Bullets: The 1990s and Guatemalan Rock]. Revista Cultural de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala 12 (Abril-Junio 2009): 27-36.

Invited talks & conference papers

• “You Shall Not Care! Drug-Related Violence and Collective Helplessness.” XXV Congreso Anual de Mexicanistas Juan Bruce-Novoa, UC Irvine, May 2019. 
• “Caring and Violence at the Border.” Cine-Lit IX, Portland, March 2019. 
• “The Nomad, the Suicide and the Unemployed: Disaccumulation by Repossession in Post War Central American Literature.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative LIterature Association (ACLA), Utrecht (Netherlands), July 2017.
• “Detectives del olvido: memoria y racionalidad neoliberal en la literatura centroamericana de posguerra” [Detectives of Forgetfulness: Neoliberal Memory and Rationality in Central American Postwar Literature]. XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima (Peru), May 2017.
• “Time to Care: Precarity and the Political in Drug-related Violence.” First Congress of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies Association of the Pacific Northwest (LALISA), Portland, April 2016.
• “You shall not care! Horrorism and the Production of Collective Helplessness in Gang and Narco Violence”. 65th Annual Conference of the Center for Latin American Studies (University of Florida): CRIMESCAPES: Space, Law and the Making of Illegality in the Americas, March 2016.
• “You shall not care! Horrorism and Precarious Life in Gang and Narco Violence.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Boston, March 2016.
• “Horrorismo y abyección en Centroamérica. O cómo cuidar del otro (sin morir en el intento)” [Horrorism and abjection in Central America. Or how to care for the other (without dying trying)]. XXIII Congreso de Literaturas y Cultura Centroamericanas (CILCA). New Orleans, March 2015.
• “You shall not care! Horrorism and the Production of Collective Helplessness in Gang and Narco Violence.” Cine-Lit VIII, Portland, February 2015. 
• “Nómadas y desempleados: literatura y razón neoliberal en la Centroamérica de posguerra” [Nomads and the Unemployed: Literature and Neoliberal Reason in Post-War Central America]. XL Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) Mexico City, 2014.
• “Spaces of Insurgency: The New Man Goes to the Jungle.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York, 2014.
• “The Inconvenience of Revolution: Zapatismo, Cynicism and a Shifting Sovereignty.” Invited Talk. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Florida, 2014.
• “I’m not complete in the mind”: Senselessness and Sovereign Reason in Guatemala.” 66th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (Lexington), 2013.
• “Madness and War in Contemporary Guatemala.” Invited Talk. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley, 2013.
• “Insurgent Literature: Ethics, Justice, Representation. » Kaleidoscope: The Ethics of Represententation and the Representation of Ethics. 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madiosn, 2011.
• “No me tapes el sol: ¡Ya Basta! de cinismo.” 57th Annual Conference of the South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Instituto Mora, Mexico City, 2010
• “Reflections on the Concept of Justice in Derrida.” 12th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2008