New York City's Blizzard of 1888/New York Public Library
Imagine of linotype machine. Photo, “Strange Machine,” by Feliciano Guimarães, “Strange machine” via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of the author giving a presentation.
Book
Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century. Forthcoming from NYU Press in January 2026.
Refereed Articles
“Counter Mapping the Archival Record: Reflections on Recovering New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Press.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 49.1 (2024). 175-189.
“Lessons from the City of Print,” co-authored with Ayendy Bonifacio and Mark Noonan. Forthcoming in American Literary Realism.
“Sotero Figueroa: Creating a Communal Voice in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York, Patria, and La Doctrina de Martí.” American Periodicals. 30.2 (2020): 105-109.
“The Metaphors We Use: Network.” American Periodicals. 30.1 (2020): 5-8.
“American Alternatives: Participatory Futures of Print from New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Press.” American Literary History. 30.4 (2018). 677-702.
"Telephonic Modernismo: Latinidad and Hemphispheric Print Culture in the Age of Electricity." English Language Notes. 56.2 (2018): 90-103.
“Toward a Latinx Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Remixing, Reassembling, and Reimagining the Archive.” Educational Media International. 54.4 (2017): 304-316.
“Networked Literature: The Crónica Modernista and Nineteenth-Century Media Change.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 50.2 (2016): 321–346.
Chapters in Edited Collections
“Modernism’s Workshops: Printing Latinx Literary Modernities in New York City.” Chapter in Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848-1992: Volume 2, edited by John Alba Cutler and Marissa K. López, 242-259. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
“Revolutionizing Women’s Roles in the late Nineteenth-Century U.S.-based Spanish-Language Press.” Chapter in essay collection, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US: Comparable (Hi)stories? (19th-21st Centuries), edited by Bénédicte Deschamps and Stéphanie Prévost. Bloomsbury, 2024. 223-236.
“Reimagining Literary History, and Why It Matters Now.” Chapter in essay collection, New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture, edited by Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden. Bloomsbury, 2022. 239-256.
“Remixing Literature in the Classroom: From Canons to Playlists in the Study of Latinx Literature and Beyond.” The Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough. Routledge, 2021. 210-221.
Invited Book Reviews
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite by Rodrigo Lazo. Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad journal. 2.1 (2025): 69-74.
Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press by Montse Feu. American Periodicals. 32.1 (2022): 81-84.
Media Laboratories: Late Modernist Authorship in South America by Sarah Ann Wells. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 8.1 (2017): 112-118
“Looking Backward: Print and Digital Futures of the Humanities.” American Literary History. 27.2 (2015): 404-416.
Other Publications
Letter to the editor in response to “The End of the English Major,” New Yorker, March 27, 2023: 7.
“Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies: A White Paper for the NEH Office of Digital Humanities on Launching the ‘SIGuache’ Network,” Co-Authored with Marissa López, Lorena Gautherean, and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, April 2022.
"The International New York Times and the Future of News," MIT Comparative Media Studies Blog October 21, 2013
“Mirar el mundo como corresponsal: ecos de la prensa en el modernismo de Martí y Casal,” Anuario 30 del Centro de Estudios Martianos . 30 (2007): 137-143.
Podcasts and Videos
“Engaging the Archive and its Absences: Futures of Digital Scholarship and Teaching.” Keynote at Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference. Lewisburg, PA, October 2018.
“Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News.” MIT Comparative Media Studies Colloquium, October 2012