Ph.D. Emory University. Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University. I did my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and am committed to comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American literature and especially the literature and culture of the Hispanic, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean. I have worked extensively on post-Revolutionary Cuban cultural production and have published articles and reviews in Afro-Hispanic Review, MLN, Latin American Literary Review, Inti, and others. An essay on the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer recently appeared in Literature, Music, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean. My book, Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press for their New World Studies series.