Ayendy Bonifacio Peralta
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Overview
overview
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Ayendy Bonifacio (he/him/his) was born in Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. He earned his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and is currently an assistant professor of English at The University of Toledo. He writes and teaches about American literature and culture, Latinx studies, and print culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He is currently at work on a book titled Newspapers and the Poetics of Paratextuality (1855-1901) that sits at the intersection of periodical studies and nineteenth-century poetry.
His research is published in American Periodicals, Prose Studies, The Black Scholar, American Literary Realism, J19, The New York Times, ASAP/Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other scholarly and public-facing venues. He is also the author of Dique Dominican (Floricanto Press, 2017) and To The River, We Are Migrants (Unsolicited Press, 2020). In 2018, The Latino Author named Dique Dominican one of the “top ten best non-fiction books of 2017.” Bonifacio's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); The Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC); and The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists (C19).
Publications
selected publications
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Article (Faculty180)
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2021“Resisting Print-Culture Norms: Charles Dickens’s ‘Hunted Down’ in the Anglophone Periodical Press” . Comparative American Studies: An International Journal. 17.
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2021“Speculative Aesthetics: Resisting White Norms” . ASAP/Journal.
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2020“El Cronista: Spanish-Speaking Readers in Nineteenth-Century New York City” . American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography. 30:118-121.
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2020“Lessons from ‘City of Print’” . American Literary Realism. 53:117-127.
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2019“Queer Objectivity, Nostalgia, and Modernity: Combative Gendering Discourses in Funny Boy’s Post-1983 Sri Lanka” . Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 4:1-24.
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2017“The 1866 New York City Cholera Epidemic Through Popular Periodicals and Theories of Contagion” . Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism . 39:1-18.
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Article (Web of Science)
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2021Resisting print-culture norms: Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down" in the anglophone periodical press. COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1873025
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2021Lessons from the “City of Print”. American Literary Realism. 53:117.Full Text via DOI: 10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0117
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2017The 1866 New York City cholera epidemic through popular periodicals and theories of contagion. Prose Studies. 39:1-18.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2017.1364465
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Book (Faculty180)
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2020To The River, We Are Migrants. Unsolicited Press.
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2017Dique Dominican . Floricanto Press.
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Book Review (Web of Science)
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Chapter (Faculty180)
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2021“Caribbean Poetry” . The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Palgrave .
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2021“‘¿A’ca’o qué, comadre?’: Border Languages and Xicanisma in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God". New Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo. University of Pittsburg Press.
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Conference Poster (Faculty180)
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Lecture or Panel Discussion (Faculty180)
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Other Scholarly Work (Faculty180)
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2019Digital Archive: The Early Poems of Sarah Morgan Bryan (Piatt) in the New York Ledger, 1857-1860,. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State University Libraries.
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Presentation (Faculty180)
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2020
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Press (Faculty180)
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2021Helen Lewis, “The Identity Hoaxers” . The Atlantic.
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2021Renee Hudson, “Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s “To the River, We Are Migrants.” . Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
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2021Urayoán Noel, “‘La Treintena’ 2021: 30 Books & Chapbooks of Latinx Poetry,” New York University’s The Latinx Project.. New York University’s The Latinx Project.
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2021“Teaching Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and How Our Stories Won’t Save Us,” Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), May 14.. Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
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2021
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2020“COVID-19 and Structures of Oppression among New York City's Undocumented Immigrants”. Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues, the Online Magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan.
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2020“For Many Immigrants, An Even Greater Risk.” The New York Times. The New York Times.
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Review (Faculty180)
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2015
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Workshop (Faculty180)
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2021Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (NEH). UCLA.. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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2020“Organizing Poems in Chapbook Manuscripts” (Virtual).. Hues Foundation Instructor.
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featured in
- Helen Lewis, “The Identity Hoaxers” Press (Faculty180)
- Renee Hudson, “Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s “To the River, We Are Migrants.” Press (Faculty180)
- Urayoán Noel, “‘La Treintena’ 2021: 30 Books & Chapbooks of Latinx Poetry,” New York University’s The Latinx Project. Press (Faculty180)
- “COVID-19 and Structures of Oppression among New York City's Undocumented Immigrants” Press (Faculty180)
- “For Many Immigrants, An Even Greater Risk.” The New York Times Press (Faculty180)
- “Teaching Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and How Our Stories Won’t Save Us,” Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), May 14. Press (Faculty180)
- “We Must Confront Anti-Black History in All Forms in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter” Press (Faculty180)
- “We Must Think About Vaccine Trust From the Perspectives of Undocumented Migrants” Press (Faculty180)
- “What New York City’s Cholera Epidemics Teach Us in the Age of COVID-19” Press (Faculty180)
Contact
full name
- Ayendy Bonifacio Peralta