Professor Vazquez's research and teaching interests focus on performance studies, U.S. Latina/o Studies, cultures of the African diaspora, transnational feminist theory, and Latina/o American literature and criticism, with an emphasis on the Hispanophone Caribbean.  Before coming to Princeton, Vazquez was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University and lecturer at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University.  Vazquez received her PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.

Selected Publications:

• Instrumental Migrations: The Critical Turns of Cuban Music (under contract with Duke University Press).
• La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul, co-editor with Ela Troyano (under contract with Duke University Press).
• "Can you Feel the Beat?: Freestyle's Systems of Living, Loving and Recording," Social Text, special issue on Politics and Sound Recording (forthcoming Spring 2010).
• "Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaeton Aside," Reggaeton, eds. Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Wayne Marshall, and Raquel Z. Rivera. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
• "Toward an Ethics of Knowing Nothing," for Pop When the World Falls Apart, ed. Eric Weisbard, (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
• "Una Escuela Rara: Havana Meets Harlem in Montmartre," Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2006.

Courses offered:

• Writing Sound; The Literary South; Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature; Latina/o Performance; Music of the Hispanophone Caribbean