Associate Professor
Florida Atlantic University
Link to 2012 Stanford
Symposium on Junot Díaz
Teaching:
Spring
2015
Latino/a
Theater and Film
Interpretation
of Drama
Fall
2014
US
Latino/a Literature
Colloquium
in English (Graduate)
Recent Awards:
College of Arts and Letters Nominee for
Distinguished Teacher of the Year, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), 2014.
Full Year Sabbatical, granted by Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, FAU, 2011-2012.
Nominated
for OWL Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, FAU, 2010.
Scholarly
and Creative Accomplishment Fellowship, granted by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College
of Arts and Letters, FAU, 2009-2010.
University
Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, FAU, 2008.
Scholarship,
Creative Accomplishment and Teaching Development Award, granted by the Dorothy
F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, FAU, 2006.
Scholarly
and Creative Accomplishment Fellowship, granted by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College
of Arts and Letters, FAU, 2005-2006.
Publications:
Machado
Sáez, Elena. Market
Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean
Diasporic Fiction. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2015.
Dalleo,
Raphael and Elena Machado Sáez. The
Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
Reviewed by
·
Richard Pérez in the review essay “Emerging
Canons, Unfolding Ethnicities: The Future of U.S. Latino/a Literary Theory.”
Centro 22.2
(Spring 2010).
·
Michelle Johnson Vela, Camino Real 3 (2010): 189-190.
·
Margarita Castromán
Soto in Sargasso 2008-2009.1:
179-182.
·
Laura Halperin
in Latino Studies 7.3
(September 2009): 400-402.
·
Carmen Ruiz-Castaneda in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 6.1 (Spring
2008).
·
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
in MELUS 33.1
(Spring 2008): 174-176.
·
Trenton Hickman in Latino(a) Research Review 6.3 (2007-2008): 121-124.
Articles
in Peer Reviewed Journals
“Dictating Desire, Dictating
Diaspora: Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao
as Foundational Romance.” Contemporary Literature 52.3 (November
2011): 522-555.
“Reconquista: Ilan Stavans and the Indigenous
Other in Multiculturalist Latino Discourse.” Latino Studies 7.4 (Winter 2009): 410-434.
“Bittersweet
(Be)Longing: Filling the Void of History in Andrea
Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.” Anthurium: A Caribbean
Studies Journal 4.1 (2006).
“Postcoloniality, Atlantic Orders,
and the Migrant Male in the Writings of Caryl Phillips.” Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism 9.1
(March 2005): 17-39.
“The Global Baggage of
Nostalgia in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.”
MELUS 30.4 (Winter 2005): 129-147.
“Latino, U.S.A.: Statehooding Puerto Rico in Rosario Ferré’s
The House on the Lagoon.” Phoebe 16.1 (2004): 23-38.
“The Routes of Global Nostalgia
in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.”
Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, & Culture 2
(2002): 91-104.
Chapters in Edited Collections
“Teaching Brathwaite’s MR within a Caribbean Fabulist
Tradition.” Approaches to Teaching Kamau Brathwaite. Ed. Elaine Savory. New York: The
Modern Language Association of America. [Book manuscript approved by MLA, 2008].
“Static
Signals: Celia Cruz, Santería and Markets of Latinidad in Jennine Capó Crucet’s How to Leave
Hialeah.” Write in Tune: Representing Contemporary Music in Fiction.
Eds. Erich Hertz and Jeff Roessner. New York:
Bloomsburg, 2014.
Co-author with Raphael Dalleo.
“Canon Formation.” In Routledge Companion
to Latino/a Literature. Eds. Frances Aparicio and
Suzanne Bost, 385-395. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Book Reviews
“Worth the Wait for Wondrous
Tale.” Rev. of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, South
Florida Sun Sentinel 9 September 2007: 6H.
“Globalization Bringing Us
Closer.” Rev. of A Handbook to Luck by Cristina García, South Florida Sun Sentinel 29 April 2007:
10G.
“A Family’s Bonds of Love,
Money.” Rev. of Love and Ghost Letters by Chantel Acevedo, South
Florida Sun Sentinel 11 Sept.
2005: A&E 18.
“Hemingway as Proxy for Cuba’s
Woes.” Rev. of Adíos Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Fuentes and Welcome
to Havana Señor Hemingway by Alfredo José
Estrada, South Florida Sun Sentinel 19 June 2005: A&E 18.
“Cigar Roller’s life goes up in
smoke.” Rev. of The Cigar Roller by
Pablo Medina, South Florida Sun Sentinel 6 Mar. 2005: A&E 18.