Research Articles

“Exercises in Joyful Improvisational Practice,” liquid blackness. Issue 9.1, Spring 2025. Issue co-edited with John Brooks. (Forthcoming)

"Ballads of the Beat: On Samples and Song Flips at the U.S.–Mexico Border," for the Oxford Handbook of Pop Music, ed. Eric Weisbard. (Forthcoming from Oxford University Press). 

“Singing Apocalypse: Corridos, Catastrophe, and the Poetics of Reconstitution” for Latinx Literature in Transition, Vol. II. Eds. Marissa K. López and John Alba Cutler. (Forthcoming 2024 from Cambridge University Press).

“Book Review: Richard T. Rodríguez, A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad,” American Literary History Online Review, Series XLIII (Forthcoming 2024).

“The Art of Color Grading: Aubrey Woodiwiss and Eric Weidt,” with Carol Vernallis, in The Media Swirl: Audiovisuality, Aesthetics, and Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2023.

“Phases: Two Tracks and an Invitation to Move,” with Michiko Theurer. Peripheries: Journal of Word and Image, No. 5, October 2022. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions).

“On Wonder,” Finding Reason: Civic Science Stories. Eds. Karen Andrade, Shannon Dosemagen, Sam Dyson, and Allen Gunn. April 2022. (52–54). Civic Science Fellows Program.

“Book Review: James Gordon Williams, Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space,” Jazz & Culture. Vol. 5, Issue 1. 2022.

“Heirloom,” Journal of Popular Music Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2021.

“Futuro Conjunto: A Transmedia Ballad.” ASAP/Journal, Vol. 6.2 (May 2021): 311–326.

“Anderson .Paak, Kendrick Lamar, and Colin Tilley ‘Get Up in Our Rearview Mirror: Collectively Analyzing the ‘Tints’ Music Video,” with Lauren McLeod Cramer, Carol Vernallis, Daniel Oore, Steven Shaviro, Anders Aktor Liljedahl, and Eduardo Viñuela. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. (2021).

“Jam Sessions: Improvising across Disciplines,” with Max Suechting. Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation. Vol. 13, No. 1 (2020).

“Wild Tongue: A New Record of Rio Grande Valley Expression.” Rio Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands. Vol. 24, 2020.

“On Color Magic: Emil Nava’s “Feels” and “Nuh Ready Nuh Ready.” Transmedia Directors: Music, Sound, Image, Eds. Carol Vernallis, Lisa Perrott, and Holly Rogers. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.

“Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer Music Video/Film: A Collective Reading,” with Carol Vernallis, Steven Shaviro, Max Suechting, Gabriel Ellis, Gabrielle Lochard, Maeve Sterbenz, and Dani Oore. Journal of the Society for American Music. Volume 13, No. 2. pp. 250–271, 2019.