Scholarship
MORE REALITY: LITERATURE, FILM, AND MYSTICAL PERCEPTION
Under contract with Duke University Press.
THIS WILL NOT BE GENERATIVE (2023)
COLONIAL PHANTOMS: BELONGING AND REFUSAL IN THE DOMINICAN AMERICAS (2018)
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
SOME PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“The Mulatta in the Attic,” Reading Lote, Public Books (2022)
“Marronage, De Profundis,” Seen by Blackstar (2021)
“Caribbean, Gardener,” Introduction and Curation, ASAP Review (2021)
“The Hills are Alive: Pet Sematary and the Horror of Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2019)
“Navigating the Portals Between Works by Ligia Lewis and Firelei Baez,” Hyperallergic (2019)
“The Most Confederate Name in the Caribbean,” Avidly (2017)
SOME INTERVIEWS
“On Hopeful, Mythical, and Mystical Whodunits: An Interview with Dixa Ashariel Ramirez about Her Debut Novel,” with Anya Lewis-Meeks, Apogee (2026)
“BAR Book Forum: Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo’s Book This Will Not Be Generative,” with Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report (2023)
“Colonial Phantoms: Interview with Dixa Ramírez,” with Amaury Rodríguez and Emmanuel Espinal, Esendom (2018)
SOME ONLINE LECTURES
“Caves, Octaves, More Reality,” The Climate of Critique: A differences Colloquium, Brown University (2025) (starting at 58 min.)
“Indolence, Insolence, and Blackness in the Hills,” The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University (2022)
“Indolence,” Political Concepts, Brown University (2019)
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