…in comparison with US African American, Afro-Latinx and Latinx communities. My interdisciplinary work includes trauma studies, critical ethnic studies, literary analysis and cultural studies. I am a past recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the CUNY Graduate Center for Politics, Culture and Place, FLAS, and internal grants at U Pittsburgh, U Indianapolis, and CUNY. I published articles (available below) in the Zora Neale Hurston Forum, Confluencia, and InterFACES. I first taught as an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Indianapolis, where I coordinated the Spanish program and taught undergraduate and graduate courses.