I am Professor of Latinx and Borderlands Literature in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, where I also co-direct the Literature of Social Justice and Environment initiative (LSJE). My work and writing highlights the need to disrupt mythologies of the American West by incorporating border voices and identities.
My book, The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature (2022 by TTU Press) focuses on ideas of space, place, and memory on the US-Mexico Borderlands. See more/purchase here:
https://www.ttupress.org/9781682831250/the-haunted-southwest/
I also edited an anthology titled We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders and Place (2025, Texas A & M Press) which is a curated collection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that showcases women’s relationships to specific landscapes and nature. In We Are Nature, nature is a living, sentient being and foundational partner of identity formation. See more/purchase here:
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648433733/we-are-nature-defending-itself/
