Selected Publications

Book

The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border.  Cultural Studies of the Americas, vol.1.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Edited Volume

“Critical Perspectives and Emerging Models of Inter-American Studies,” special issue of Comparative American Studies 3.4 (Dec. 2005).

Selected Articles

“The Hemispheric Routes of ‘El nuevo arte nuestro’: The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy and the Cold War,” Hemispheric American Studies: Essays beyond the Nation, ed. Robert Levine and Caroline Levander, Rutgers UP, in press, 2007.

"Commentary: The Transnational Turn and the Hemispheric Return," American Literary History, 18.3, special issue on "Hemispheric American Literature," ed. Robert Levine and Caroline Levander (fall 2006): 638-647

"Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas," American Literature Seventy-fifth Anniversary issue, 76.4 (December 2004): 871-86. 

"Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies," with Claudia Sadowski-Smith.  Comparative American Studies 2.1 (January 2004): 41-74.

"Left Sensationalists at the Transnational Crime Scene: Recent Detective Fiction from the U.S.-Mexican Border."  World Bank Literature, ed. Amitava Kumar. U of Minnesota Press, 2003. 184-200.

"Lo clásico de México moderno": Exhibiting the Female Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico."  Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 20 (2001): 1-32. 

"Fan Letters to the Cultural Industries: Border Literature about Mass Media."  Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 25.1, special issue on literature and popular culture of the U.S.-Mexico border region, (winter 2001): 15-45.

"Pornography and 'the Popular' in Postrevolutionary Mexico: El Club Tívoli from Luis Spota to Alberto Isaac."  Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video, ed. Chon Noriega. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2000. 143-173.

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