Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé

B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Stanford University

• Hispanic Caribbean Literature
• New York in Latinx Literature
• Gender and Sexuality in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Literatures
• Latin American Neobaroque

• New York in Latinx Literature and Film
• Queer Caribbean and its Diaspora
• Cuba: Revolution, Literature and Film

Bailando en un encierro: Duelo, danza y activismo en las manifestaciones del Verano
Boricua de 2019. Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico: Editora Educación Emergente, 2023.

Ramos Otero, Manuel, Cuentos “completos,” annotated edition, Compilation, notes
and prologue by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña and Callejón, 2023. Prologue: “Entre el duelo y las rutas: La cuentística
diaspórica de Manuel Ramos Otero,” pp. 11-43.

Ramos Otero, Manuel, Cuentos (casi) completos. Compilation, notes and prologue by
Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé. Colección de Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe.
Habana: Casa de las Américas, 2019. Prologue: “Entre el duelo y las rutas: La
cuentística diaspórica de Manuel Ramos Otero,” pp. 7-32.

Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails. New
Directions in Latino American _Cultures series, José Quiroga and Licia Fiol-Matta, eds.
New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007.

Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York and
London: New York UP, 2002). Coedited with Martin F. Manalansan. Introduction:
Cruz-Malavé and Manalansan IV.

El primitivo implorante. El “sistema poético del mundo” de José Lezama Lima
(Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi: Colección de Teoría Literaria: Texto y Teoría,
1994). On the limits of Lezama Lima’s poetic system: race, sexuality, nation and
consumption in the works of José Lezama Lima.

“¡No te luzcas!: Nuyorican Performance and Spectacularity in the Visual Art of Adál,
David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle,” Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical
Anthology, ed. Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez (Duke UP, 2025), 352-71.

“In the Wake: Temporality, Performance, and Demonic Space in Caribbean Modernist Proposals,” Caribbean Modernisms, Project Small Axe (Duke UP), online, 2024: https://smallaxe.net/sites/default/files/inline-images/CM1-ESSAYS%20rev-10.21.2024.pdf

“Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of
2019,” Small Axe 68 (July 2022): 1-23.

“Lezama Lima’s ‘Julián del Casal’: A New Aesthetics of Reception and Failure for Post-
Revolutionary Times,” Small Axe 60 23, 3 (November 2019): 156-166.

“The Latino Fiction of Piri Thomas,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Literature. Abril
26, 2018: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326657758_The_Latino_Fiction_of_Piri_Thom
as

“Testimonio.” Key Words for Latino Studies. Deborah R. Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal,
and Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2017.
228-231.

“Entre la épica y el consumo: Lezama y las revoluciones”, Asedios a lo increado:
Nuevas aproximaciones a José Lezama Lima. Eds. Marta Hernández-Salván, Juan Pablo
Lupi, Jorge Marturano. Madrid: Verbum, 2016.

“Between Irony and Belief: The Queer Diasporic Underground Aesthetics of José
Rodríguez-Soltero and Mario Montez”, GLQ 21, 4 (Fall 2015).

“Transnationalism and Manuel Ramos Otero’s ‘Traveling Theater’ of Return,” Rasanblaj
Caribéen, e-misférica 12.1 (Spring 2015): https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica- 3 121-caribbean-rasanblaj/12-1-dossier/e-121-dossier-cruz-malave-transnationalism-and- manuel-ramos.html

“’Under the Skirt of Liberty’: Giannina Braschi Rewrites Empire,” American Quarterly
66, 3 (Fall 2014). Special issue of American Quarterly (Las Américas Quarterly) edited
by Licia Fiol-Matta and Macarena Gómez Barris:
http://www.americanquarterly.org/interact/americas.html

“Julián del Casal.” Prologue and annotated edition of José Lezama Lima’s essay from
Analecta del reloj. La Habana Elegante. 53 (Spring-Summer 2013): http://www.habanaelegante.com/Spring_Summer_2013/Hojas_CruzMalave.html

“The Antifoundational Foundational Fiction of Piri Thomas (1928-2011),” CENTRO:
Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies XXIV, 1 (Spring 2012): 4-19.

“The Oxymoron of Sexual Sovereignty: Some Puerto Rican Literary Reflections,”
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies XIX, 1 (Spring 2007): 50-73.

“Lecciones de cubanía: Identidad nacional y errancia sexual en Senel Paz, Martí y
Lezama,” en Enrico Mario Santí, ed., Cuban Studies 29 (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh, 1999), 129-54, and Revista de crítica cultural 17 (noviembre 1998): 58-67.

“What a Tangled Web!: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Foundations of Puerto Rican
Literature in the United States,” differences 8 1(1996): 132-51.

“Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican
Literature,” in ¿Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings, eds. Paul Julian Smith
and Emilie L. Bergmann (“Series Q,” Duke University Press, 1995): 137-67.

“Para virar al macho: La autobiografía como subversión en la cuentística de Manuel
Ramos Otero,” Revista Iberoamericana LIX, 162-163 (Jan.-June 1993): 239-263.