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Beyond Borders: Reading Literature in the 21st Century
Beyond Borders: Reading Literature in the 21st Century

A textbook on literary and cultural studies

2016

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What I Write: A Shortlist

Updated in July 2023 — I’m a beach mom, a chef’s spouse, a literature academic, and parent to a wonderful autistic child. These four facets of my life inform my essays, lyrical prose, and occasional poetry. My Writer’s Bio (as a writer on Medium) Free Substack Email Newsletter Below is a shortlist of my writing by publication and topic. I constantly update it. My Publications If you’re a follower…

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What I Write: A Shortlist
What I Write: A Shortlist
Index

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Metafictions

·Jul 20

Terror, Beauty, Trauma in ‘Bird Box Barcelona’

When a sinister sublime weaponizes your emotional wounds — Spoilers ahead. With mentions of self-harm and suicide. As Den of Geek’s Alec Bojalad correctly noted, the entities as drawn by Gary in the first Bird Box film were Lovecraftian: deeply, disturbingly dark, and one of them even has facial tentacles like Cthulhu. If Bird Box’s invisible assailants were indeed…

Film

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Terror, Beauty, Trauma in ‘Bird Box Barcelona’
Terror, Beauty, Trauma in ‘Bird Box Barcelona’
Film

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Jul 1

The Witcher, Season 3: Trust Issues

Why I found this season of Netflix’s The Witcher personally unsettling — Includes Season 3 Vol. 1 ending spoilers and book spoilers. Season 3 opens with the little family of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri traveling together, on the run, going from one temporary home to another and paying their accommodations’ owners for their “discretion.” …

TV Series

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The Witcher, Season 3: Trust Issues
The Witcher, Season 3: Trust Issues
TV Series

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Metafictions

·Jun 25

The Séance at a Wake

How do you tell a forbidden story? Draw the scene. — Here goes. I’m drawing the scene. And I’m going to change some details so I can deny its association with a real location, and with real people in my life. But I’m going to play up the details that drew me in when this person — let’s call him Santi…

Writing

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The Séance at a Wake
The Séance at a Wake
Writing

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Jun 11

Angels

Three tales — In the midst of pandemic lockdowns, my work-displaced chef husband turned his mom’s garage into an “essentials” food store. In the Philippines, the essentials were rice, cured meats, and frozen meals. Francis, my husband, printed a hundred copies of his store’s price list. He thought, he could walk around the…

Nonfiction

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Angels
Angels
Nonfiction

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Age of Awareness

·Jun 5

Teaching Literature with SparkNotes, Google, ChatGPT

How this impatient teacher dealt with students resorting to dubious “study guides” — I was drafting this post on my 11-year-old daughter’s computer. I was browsing images to add from Unsplash when she walked by, saw the title, and exclaimed: “Mom, you know what ChatGPT is?!!” She said it with this shock on her face that shocked me in turn. “What makes you…

Education

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Teaching Literature with SparkNotes, Google, ChatGPT
Teaching Literature with SparkNotes, Google, ChatGPT
Education

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Autism and Us

·May 28

About Me and ‘Autism and Us’

Dwelling in the intersections of multiple, sometimes contrasting perspectives — My four-year-old, not-yet-speaking son Joaquin was diagnosed with autism a year ago, in 2022. Following the diagnosis, I had a very enlightening, perspective-shifting year of reading and asking around as much as I can about autism as a condition, a neurotype, and a disability. All three terms apply — condition…

Autism

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About Me and ‘Autism and Us’
About Me and ‘Autism and Us’
Autism

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Metafictions

·May 22

Third World Exotic, First World Horror in ‘Nocebo’

Is the film’s sociopolitical message too deliberately played? — Chai Fonacier, the actress who played Filipino maid Diana in Nocebo, noted how carefully the producers approached the folkloric aspects of the film. “They did it with a lot of respect,” she said. “It comes from a protective space.” Local shamans were consulted, Filipino writers were employed, and Fonacier guarded…

Film Reviews

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Third World Exotic, First World Horror in ‘Nocebo’
Third World Exotic, First World Horror in ‘Nocebo’
Film Reviews

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May 18

Home is the Most Unsettling Place

Visiting the university after my resignation — I left when the streetlamps were turning on for the evening. I made it a point to leave alone, to walk back to the campus gates alone, leaving behind everyone I reconnected with again during socials and dinner. …

Education

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Home is the Most Unsettling Place
Home is the Most Unsettling Place
Education

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Autism and Us

·May 15

My Nonverbal Autistic Son’s First Speech Evaluation

Takeaways of a literature professor mom — As much as I’m hopeful that my son acquires language, I’m just as prepared to accept that he may not speak at all. And that’s okay. Even if he obtains language, he may not want to speak it — all the time or only some of the time — and…

Autism

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My Nonverbal Autistic Son’s First Speech Evaluation
My Nonverbal Autistic Son’s First Speech Evaluation
Autism

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