He is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain (SUNY, 2007), Narrativas híbridas (Verbum, 2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (AJHCS), Teaching the Latin American Boom (MLA, 2015) and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (University of Rochester Press, 2017). His current book manuscript Commodifying Violence in Latin American Literature, Film, and Media: The Colombian Condition examines mass-marketed media products that perpetuate the “dark side” of Latin America for global consumption. His articles have been published in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos.
