Vitae

Abbreviated (2024)

EDUCATION

2018	Ph. D. Composition and Cultural Rhetoric; Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
2010	M.A. English Education, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
2006	B.A. English Education and Multimedia Technology, University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

In Progress

Rhetorics of Defiance: Lolita Lebrón’s Anticolonial Action, Representation, and Reverberation. Under advanced contract with Ohio State University Press (Intersectional Rhetorics Book Series).

“Decolonial Visions Across Oceanic Borderspaces: Puerto Rican Challenges to US Empire.” In Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, eds. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Aurora Santiago Ortíz. Under contract with Duke University Press (forthcoming).

“Queer(ing) Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric: Perreo Combativo in the SoVerano Boricua as Cuir Sentipensar.” In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, eds. Jacqueline Rhoades and Suban Nur Cooley (forthcoming).

Journal Articles    

“Amplifying Autogestión and Cultural Rhetorics of Resistance.” College Composition and Communication, 75.1 (2023): 37-55.

“The Imperious Rule of Julia Keleher: Gender, Race, and Colonialism in the Corruption of Public Education in Puerto Rico.” CENTRO: Journal for the Center of Puerto Rican Studies, 25.2 (2022). Print.

“A Conversation on Sound, Rhetoric, and Community with Karrieann Soto Vega and Steven Hammer.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Special Issue on Sound and Social Change, 26.1 (2021). Web.

“Afterlives of Anticolonial Dissent: Performances of Public Memory Within and Against the United States of América.” Journal for the History of Rhetoric, 24.1 (2021): 69-86. Print.

“Sounding Out a Rhetoric of Resilience: Curating Plena in DiaspoRican Activism.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric, 4.1 (2020). Web.

“Colonial Causes and Consequences: Climate Change and Climate Chaos in Puerto Rico.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, 10 November 2020. Web.

“Puerto Rico Weathers the Storm: Autogestión as a Coalitional Counter-Praxis of Survival.” feral feminisms, 9 (2019): 39-55. Print.

“Latinx Rhetoric and Intersectionality in Racial Rhetorical Criticism” with Karma Chávez. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15.4 (2018): 319-325. Print.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Print Media

“Autogestionando Sobrevivir: Coalitional Counterpraxis of Survival in Boricua Artistic Collectives.” No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. Whitney Museum Exhibit Catalogue. Yale University Press. 31 January 2023.

Refereed Digital Posts

“Puerto Rico’s Political Paradox.” The Gender Policy Report, 23 March 2020. Web.

“In Typical Decolonial Fashion, Puerto Ricans Rise Up.” Feminist Campus. A program of the Feminist Majority, 17 Oct. 2017. Web. 

Sound Media

“What We Can Learn from the 1954 Capitol Attack by Puerto Rican Nationalists.” Texas Standard. January 21, 2021.

“Antiblackness en Comunidades Latinas.” Noticias en RadioLex. 17 June 2020.

“Forced Migration & Limits of Citizenship: Puerto Ricans Crossing Diasporas.” Arte y Aparte en Pulso Latino. 25 March 2019.

AWARDS

2021	Right to the Discipline Grant The Antipode Foundation
2018	ASHR Dissertation Award American Society for the History of Rhetoric
2018	Scholars for the Dream Award College Composition & Communication Conference
2017	Social Media Curator Fellow Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS & SERVICE

Puerto Rican Studies Association Executive Council: Communications (2020-Present)

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (2022-Present)

Rhetoric Society of America Executive Board: Early Career Rep. (2018-2022)

College Composition and Communication Conference: Graduate Rep. (2017-2020)