Ph.D., New York University, 2006

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English
B46 McCosh Hall
(Office hours Wed: 4:30–6:30)
(609) 258-4078
atvazque@princeton.edu

Professor Vazquez’s research and teaching interests focus on performance studies, U.S. Latina/o Studies, popular music, cultures of the African diaspora, transnational feminist theory, and Latina/o American literature and criticism, with an emphasis on the Hispanophone Caribbean. In 2010-2011, she received a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. 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:

• Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (under contract with Duke University Press for the series “Refiguring American Music”).
• La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul , co-editor with Ela Troyano (under contract with Duke University Press).
• “How Can I Refuse?” The Journal of Popular Music Studies Vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2011)
• "Can You Feel the Beat?: Freestyle's Systems of Living, Loving and Recording," Social Text 102, special issue on “The Politics of Recorded Sound.”
• "Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón Aside," Reggaeton, eds. Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Wayne Marshall, and Raquel Z. Rivera. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
• "Towards an Ethics of Knowing Nothing," for Pop When the World Falls Apart, ed. Eric Weisbard, (forthcoming March 2012, 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 (graduate)
• The Literary South
• Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literatures
• Latina/o Performance
• Music of the Hispanophone Caribbean
• Music of the Americas (PLAS freshman seminar)