Ayendy Bonifacio Peralta
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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 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. Bonifacio is the author of Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the U.S. Press, 1855-1901 (Edinburgh UP, 2024).
His research has been published in American Periodicals, Prose Studies, Slate, 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 writing has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); The Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC); The Ohio Arts Council; The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo; and The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists (C19).
Publications
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Article (Faculty180)
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2023"Reprint Poems in Francisco P. Ramírez El Clamor Público". American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography. 33:1-16.
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2023
“The Institutionalization of Anti-Haitianism in Dominican History and Education"
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2023"Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora"
. AAxL: Asian American x Latinx Critical and Digital Studies, Fordham University.
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2022“Pastoral Escapes in Alice Cary's New York Ledger Poems". J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 10.
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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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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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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“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“For Many Immigrants, An Even Greater Risk.” The New York Times. The New York Times.
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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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2023“Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and the Puerto Rico’s Colonial Press". Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. 24.
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2022“Story-Paper Origins in the US: The Unknown Public and The New York Ledger”. New Directions to Print Culture. Bloomsbury Press. 25.
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2022“The Hispanophone Reader”. Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U.S. South. Routledge.
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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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2023Poetry & Memoir Reading, Q&A, Sacramento State Festival of the Arts. Sacramento State University.
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2023Poetry Reading and Q&A, Ohio Writers Series, . Mt. Vernon Library.
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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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Press (Faculty180)
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2023
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2022
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2022
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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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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
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"For Some Home Decorators, Books Are As Much About Style As Content"
Press (Faculty180) - “Dominican Republic's treatment of Haitian migrants draws fire” Press (Faculty180)
- “UT's Latin American and Latinx minor enters its third year” Press (Faculty180)
- 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)
- “Professor’s Bilingual Collection of Poetry Captures Migrant Experience” Press (Faculty180)
- “Renowned Ethnic Studies Scholar to Speak at Sept. 29 Summers Lecture,” UToledo News, Kirk Baird, Sep. Press (Faculty180)
Contact
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