He is the Paul & Phyllis Fireman Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Before that, he was Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is 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 latest book, Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition (Routledge, 2022), examines mass-marketed media products that perpetuate the “dark side” of Latin America for global consumption. His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos.
