Research

    • Co-edited "Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narrative". See here.
    • Aguilar, Rodolfo. “‘You Sound like Atlanta’: The Politics of Sounding and Visualizing Black Soundscapes and Mexican Sensibilities in Kap G’s Trap Rap” The Black Scholar 52, no. 1 (2022): 64-74.  
    • Published an essay "Why the Heck Am I Out Here Lookin’ Country?’: Locating Contradictory Post-Movimiento Chicana/o/x Subjectivity in Little Joe’s “Redneck Meskin’ Boy” Recordings and the Emergence of an Overlapping South" in Interdisciplinary Humanities published in Fall 2020 but released Fall 2022.
    • Served on two roundtable discussions: "We Were Here before DACA, and We’ll Be Here after DACA: Latina/os in Atlanta and Their Quest for Academic Justice in the 21st-Century" and "Permutations and Ongoing Emergences within Transnational American Studies" while attending the 2018 ASA conference in Atlanta.
    • Book chapter, excerpted from "Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent after 40", was featured on the LA Book Review and LitHub.
    • Authored the feature article in the spring 2019 issue of American Studies titled "Capital or the Capital?: The Hunger Games Fandom and Neoliberal Populism."  
    • Sat on a roundtable titled, "Whose Emergency and What Crisis?: Activist Responses to the Bipartisan Justice Reinvestment Initiative on Prison Sentencing Reform."
    • Has a book chapter in Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, edited by Jonathan Lee Chambers titled, "Read Another Book, Repeat If Necessary," released in November 2018.
    • Published a review of "A Hundred Years of Fake News” in  American Quarterly, June 2018. 
    • Spoke on diversity and inclusion for the Randstadt Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Deep Dive podcast in September 2019. In "Beyond Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Embracing the Uniqueness Within Everyone," she discussed organizational cultures and the importance of multidimensional diversity, voice, and agency. 
    • Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Protest, was released in paperback by University of Missouri Press.
    • Published an article titled, "Teaching the Vietnam Anitwar Movement: Confronting Myths and Misconceptions," in Volume 105, Issue 4, of the Journal of American History. Learn more here. 
    • Authored a chapter titled "You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again": The Diffusion and Defusion of a Freedom Song" in Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives, which was released in September 2018. 
    • Selected as one of 9 figures to talk about racism and antiracism in Brazil. G1 is the online version of the main newspaper in Brazil. See here.
    • Published a chapter in the new book, Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas, about female resistance in Brazil. See here.
    • Published her poetry chapbook "Unearthed". See here.
    • Published two poems in Plath Profiles, a yearly, peer reviewed journal based at Indiana University and dedicated to the study of Sylvia Plath. See here. 
    • Has translations of a selection of poems by Anne Sexton, co-translated with Beppe Cavatorta, on JIT, Journal of Italian Translation, Vol. XIV, N. 2, Fall 2019, p. 72-85.
    • Has translations of poems by Devin Johnston (pp. 439-471), Lynne McMahon (pp. 573-604), Lorine Niedecker (pp. 641-694), and Chuck Stebelton (pp. 857-888), in Nuova Poesia Americana. Chicago e le praterie, edited by Luigi Ballerini, Gianluca Rizzo, and Paul Vangelisti. Nino Aragno Editore, 2019. See here. 
    • Edited collection, Deconsructing the Model in 20th and 21st Century Italian Experimental Writings, was issued by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in October 2019. 
    • Presented her paper titled, “Indigenous Experimental Genre Fiction: the Scientific, the Fantastic, and the Speculative” at the 2018 American Studies Association (ASA) conference heled in Atlanta. 
    • Co-authored Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education (Rowman & Littlefield) released in spring 2018.  
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