Ten books on Latinx literature, film, comics, and narrative — plus essays, a memoir, and a weekly newsletter on how stories are built.
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Co-written with Frederick Luis Aldama, Touchdown!: Latinos Breaking Through the NFL's White Lines arrives from Ohio State University Press in November 2026. The proofs hit the desk this week — which means it's typeset, it's real, and it's coming.
Storywork — where a narrative theorist breaks down movies, shows, comics, and culture to reveal what's really going on.
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Latinidad in a galaxy far, far away — heritage, representation, and fandom across the Star Wars universe.
The past, present, and future of Latinos in professional football.
A memoir of body, place, and becoming.
Practical teaching strategies to overcome distance, disruption, and distraction.
How Latinxs have been imagined — and imagined themselves — on American screens.
Winner · 2020 International Latino Book Award
A field guide to the central ideas of Latinx studies.
Which stories Latinx authors are permitted to tell — and what happens when they refuse the limits.
Honorable Mention · 2019 Perkins Prize
The landmark collection on Latino comics.
The first book-length study of Díaz's fiction.
Conversations on the brown color line in the NFL.
New public writing appears on Storywork. Serialized fiction lives on the Serials page. Scholarly articles, chapters, and the two book series he edits are on the CV page.