John’s University, specializing in Caribbean literature and culture across English, Spanish, and French, with a focus on black and African diaspora. His current project, “On Refusal and Recognition”: Black Diaspora and Dominican Cultural Production, studies the articulations between Dominican literary and expressive arts and conceptualizations of black and African diaspora. The book analyzes street and popular theater, baseball and literature, 1960s literary and cultural journals and groups, and includes studies of Aída Cartagena Portalatín, Junot Díaz, Jacques Viau Renaud, and Frank and Reynaldo Disla.