Articles and Book Chapters

“Stories of Giving Birth in Central America: Class, Race, and Politics in Women’s Health”

Healthcare in Latin America: A Reader, edited by David Dalton and Doug Weatherford, University of Florida Press. (co-authored with Alicia Miklos), forthcoming 2022.

“Learning from Senselessness: The Act of Reading in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez”

MLA Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, edited by Mónica Albizúrez and Gloria Chacón. forthcoming 2021

“Hippopotamus Dead or Alive: Animals and Trauma in Narratives of the Drug War”

Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2021, vol 74 no. 2, pp. 184-199.

“Naturaleza, tecnología y guerra: Modernidad encantada en la música sandinista”

TRANS. Revista Transcultural de Música, 2020, vol. 24, pp. 1-13.

“Uneven Battles: Central American Cold War Literature”

The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, edited by Andrew Hammond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 451-470.

“Passages, Transits, Flows. Thinking Central American Literature across Space, Time, and Capital”

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2020, vol. 54 no.1, pp. 7-24. (peer-reviewed introduction to special dossier of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos)

“El rifle como reliquia en las memorias letradas sandinistas: Gioconda Belli y Sergio Ramírez”

Revista Telar, 2018, no. 21, pp. 113-136.

“¿El arma en la sociedad? La novela del desmovilizado, militarismo e introspección en la obra de Castellanos Moya”

Tiranas ficciones. Poéticas y políticas de la escritura en la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya, edited by Magdalena Perkowska and Oswaldo Zavala, Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. 2018, pp. 189-211.

“In the Company of Animals: Otherness, Empathy, and Community in De fronteras by Claudia Hernández”

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2017, vol. 51 no. 3, pp. 571-593.

“In the Crossfire: Rascón Banda’s Contrabando and the ‘Narcoliterature’ Debate in Mexico”

Latin American Perspectives. 2014, vol. 41 no. 2: pp. 161-176. (translated from Spanish by Richard Stoller)

“Travelers and Littérateurs at the Banks of the San Juan River: Intertextual Fluxion and the Desire for Universality (Ephraim G. Squier, Mark Twain, José Coronel Urtecho and Gioconda Belli)”

Ciberletras, 2009, no. 21. 

“¿El río San Juan como mausoleo de modernidades de Nicaragua? La negociación literaria del significado de modernidad a las orillas del río”

L'Ordinaire Latino-américain. 2008, 211: pp. 145-164.