A scholar of comparative modernisms, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Latin American literature, he has published numerous reviews and articles, as well as translations from French, German, and Spanish, in journals and anthologies. He is the author of Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature (2009) and is the editor and cotranslator, with Adriana González Mateos, of Los danzantes del tiempo (2011), an anthology of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that was awarded the 2011 Premio de Poesía José Lezama Lima by Casa de las Américas. His anthology of writings by Cuban poet Lorenzo García Vega, Labyrinth, is forthcoming from Junction Press.