PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP
(2025, under review) Gone South: The American Experience of Mexico in US Cinema. SDSU Press.
(2025, forthcoming) The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing the Boundary. With preface by Frederick Luis Aldama. Edinburgh University Press.
(2024) Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media. Brill. [editor]
(2024) The Gothic in Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture. Brill. [editor]
(2024, in preparation) “Darkness in the American Imagination.” Special dossier co-edited with L. Álvarez Trigo. REN Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 28.
(2024) “Animals in the American Popular Imagination.” Special double issue co-edited with M. Fuchs. Comparative American Studies. An International Journal 21 (1–2).
(2023) “(Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination.” Special double dossier co-edited with M. Orrù. REDEN 5 (1–2).
(2022) “Conversations on the Gothic in Popular Culture.” Special issue co-edited with L. Álvarez Trigo. REDEN 3 (2).
(2024) Tracing Dental Horror in Contemporary American Cinema. Horror Studies 15 (1): 9–24.
(2023) Semiospheric Borders and the Erasure of Latinx Subjectivity in Culture Shock and Sleep Dealer. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 4 (2): 223–41.
(2023) The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods. English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts 10: 101–17. [with M. Fuchs]
(2023) From the Militarized City to the Alpine Refuge: Premediating the Covid-19 Pandemic and Anticipating a Post-Pandemic Future in The Fall. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). [with M. Fuchs]
(2023) Erotonoir, Pornographic Representation and Transxploitation in Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss. Porn Studies 10 (3): 299–318.
(2023) The Common Meat: Food Privilege, Extinction, and Waste in Starve. The New Americanist 2 (1): 56–74.
(2022) The Disease Becomes the Host: Cattle Decapitation’s Pandemic Discourse from Song to Music Video. Popular Culture Review 34 (2): 77–112. [with M. Fuchs]
(2022) Approaching an Expansion of Teaching American Studies through Popular Culture Texts. Porta Linguarum 37: 9–26. [with J. Cañero]
(2022) Dystopias in the Trump Era: Anti/Immigration and Resistance in CALEXIT. SFRA Review.
(2021) The Representation of the US Borderlands’ Otherness in Modern Western Comics. Paradoxa 32: 109–30.
(2021) The Hybridization of the Noir Genre as Expression of Ethnic Heritage: Rafael Navarro’s Sonambulo. REN 25: 137–61.
(2021) El México que no fue: The Tentative Retelling of Luis Donaldo Colosio’s Assassination. Comparative Cinema 9 (16): 45–65.
(2021) Gentefied and the Representation of Gentrification Related Latinx Conflicts. JAm It! 4: 35–57.
(2021) The Fantasmical Gothic Heterotopia in Rhode Montijo’s Pablo’s Inferno. Camino Real 13 (16): 85–100.
(2021) Discursive (Re)Construction of Mexican American Identity in J. Gonzo’s La Mano del Destino. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 11 (1).
(2020) Icebox and the Exceptionality Intrinsic to Institutional Violence on the US–Mexico Border. REDEN 2: 49–58.
(2020) Modernidad y progreso en la reconstrucción microhistórica literaria del Noreste mexicano. Dossier Contando Historias, Naveg@mérica 24.
(2019) Ni de aquí ni de allá: The Dreamers’ Audiovisual Self-Narration and Representation. Cinergie 16: 105–14.
(2019) Bless me, Ultima and the Representation of Social Relations in the Mexican American Borderlands. Frames Cinema Journal 16 (winter issue).
(2019) Alien/alienígena: Barrier y la representación de la Otredad fronteriza. Mitologías hoy 20: 165–79.
(2019) Rearticulating Worlds through Language: Social Justice and Creative Activism Networks. Camino Real 11 (14): 85–100.
(2019) El mesías tropical: aproximación a fenómenos populistas actuales a través del discurso de López Obrador. Chasqui Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación 139: 151–68.
(2018) La normalidad racista del discurso público en México y el caso de Marichuy. Iberoamérica Social 6 (11): 65–83.
(2018) Narcedalia Piedrotas y la construcción microhistórica de la identidad fronteriza norteña. América sin Nombre 23: 203–209.
(2025, forthcoming) “Vacuna o muerte”: Latinx Political Cartoons as Vehicle to Raise COVID-19 Vaccination Awareness. In Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19, edited by M. Butler et al. Transcript.
(2025, forthcoming) Film, Memory, and Intermediality: Exploring the Andes in La cordillera de los sueños. In Global Mountain Cinema, edited by K. Haque, C. Quendler and C. Schaumann. Edinburgh University Press. [with M. Fuchs]
(2024, forthcoming) “What’s one more monster?”: Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity in Border Town. In Horror and Comics, edited by K. Kunyosying, J. Round, and B. Chamberlin. University of Wales Press.
(2024) Journey to the Underworld: Death and the Quest for Identity in Chicanx Comics. In The Gothic in Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture, edited by M. Fuchs and A.M. Marini, 51–72. Brill.
(2023) On the “Good” Side: Hegemonic Masculinity and Transnational Intervention in the Representation of US–Mexico Border Enforcement. In Comics and Migration: Practices and Representation, edited by R. Kauranen et al., 153–66. Routledge.
(2023) The US–Mexico Borderlands Heritage and the Wall: A Critical Approach to a Complex and Revived Challenge. In Other landscapes of Cultural Heritage(s): History and Politics, edited by N. Lopes, 43–62. University of Coimbra Press.
(2022) Oaxacalifornia and the Shaping of Virtual Spaces for Collective Action. In Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants, edited by D. Dalton and D. Ramírez Plascencia, 42–58. Brill.
(2022) The Materiality of the Wall(s): Mural Art and Counter-Space Appropriation in El Paso’s South Side. In Exploring the Transnational Neighborhood: Perspectives on Community-Building, Identity and Belonging, edited by B. Jung et al., 219–42. Leuven University Press.
(2022) American Dirt’s Trumpian Discourse and the Latinx Parodic Response. In American Literature in the Era of Trump: Alternative Realities, edited by D. Resano, 223–45. Palgrave Macmillan.
(2022) Borderland Werewolves: The Horrific Representation of the US–Mexico Border in Feeding Ground. In Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter, edited by F. Pagnoni Berns and J. Darowski, 116–27. Routledge.
(2021) ICE y los discursos de legitimación del espacio kenomático en la frontera México–EEUU en la serie TV Immigration Na-tion. In Investigaciones sobre terrorismo de estado y estados de excepción, edited by L. Cañón, 350–74. Lago Editora.
(2021) Deconstruyendo la política estadounidense actual a través de una perspectiva latina: El Machete Illustrated. In La Mirada Hispánica: Aproximaciones a Estados Unidos, edited by F. Sáez de Adana, 65–96. CISAN–UNAM, Editorial UNAM.
(2020) ¡Cambiamos gachupines por españoles! Crisis y evolución del nacionalismo mexicano frente al exilio español. In España, Norteamérica y tiempos de crisis, edited by S. Rosenbaum and D. Zack, 63–80. Los Libros de la Catarata.
(2020) Una aproximación al terrorismo de estado mexicano a través del análisis crítico del discurso institucional. In Estado de Excepción y Terrorismo de Estado, edited by L. Cañón and C.M. Román, 377–424. Lago Editora.
BOOK REVIEWS, DISSEMINATION AND THE LIKES
(2023) [Book review] Álvarez-López, E. and A. Fernández-García (eds.). Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls. Routledge. In Nexus 2023.2: 53–55.
(2021) [Blog post] Culture Shock: Representing Border Discourses and Practices in the Trump Era. USSO US Studies Online, 26/04/2021.
(2021) [Blog post] 50 Shades of Misguided: A Playful Kinky Review of a BDSM Sham. PopMeC Research Blog, 15/01/2021.
(2021) [Blog post] Cat People and the Uneasiness of Bestiality: A Review of Reviews. PopMeC Research Blog, 08/01/2021.
(2020) [Book review] Cohn, N. (2020). Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension. Bloomsbury. In CuCo Cuadernos de Cómic 15: 185–89.
(2020) [Interview] The (Re)Discovery of Cultural Heritage through Childlike Wonder Tales. Interview with Rhode Montijo. PopMeC Research Blog, 06/10/2020.
(2020) [Blog post] Mala noche: The Use of Music Throughout the Sonambulo Comic Book Series. PopMeC Research Blog, 10/08/2020.
(2020) [Interview] Tell Him Your Dreams: Sonambulo and the Oneiric Lucha-Noir Mood. Interview with Rafael Navarro. PopMeC Research Blog, 01/07/2020.
(2020) [Interview] La Mano del Destino: A Lucha Libre Struggle Between Identity and Destiny. Interview with Jason Gonzalez. PopMeC Research Blog, 18/05/2020.
(2020) [Blog post] Slightly Browner Than Me: A Critical Discourse Analysis of American Dirt. PopMeC Research Blog, 05/02/2020.
(2020) [Blog post] Kenomatic Spaceship: Barrier as a Timely Representation of US Borderland Space. PopMeC Research Blog, 09/01/2020.
(2019) [Blog post] Entre torpeza diplomática y estrategia discursiva. Diálogo Atlántico, 20/05/2019.
(2018) [Book review] Russo, A. (2016). Catálogo y estudio de la revista Horizonte. Arte, literatura y actualidades, Sevilla – Madrid 1938 – 1942. Ediciones Ulises. In Spagna contemporanea 53 (27).
(2018) [Translation of Tijuana authors] Juan Alberto Apodaca, I tacos della Negrete. Quaderni di LaTina Cartonera dossier, CRIANDO 2: 70-73.
(2018) [Translation of Tijuana authors] Yohanna Jaramillo, Non era la mia ora. Quaderni di LaTina Cartonera dossier, CRIANDO 2: 102-103.
(2018) Alterità, folclorismo e riflessioni letterarie messicane. Appunti di viaggio, CRIANDO 1: 3-7.
(2017) [Working paper] Análisis del discurso del candidato Luis Donaldo Colosio, pp. 10. Presented in the department of SMeLSI, Università degli Studi di Milano, June 06. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19873.35686
(2016) [Working paper] Voces contra el ruído de la violencia: México y la narración de la guerra contra el narcotráfico, pp. 45. Presented in the department of SMeLSI, May 31.
(2016) [Working paper] Diferentes caras de la falta de liderazgo: análisis y comparación del discurso político surgido de los hechos de Iguala, pp. 37. Presented in the department of SMeLSI, January 19.