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Posts by Ayendy Bonifacio

Cover of fall 2025 issue of MELUS

Cover of fall 2025 issue of MELUS

First page of article “The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience” convo with Ocean Vuong and Joey Kim

First page of article “The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience” convo with Ocean Vuong and Joey Kim

The fall 2025 issue of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US (MELUS) is out, and my conversation with Ocean Vuong is included in it! If you’d like a pdf, let me know! academic.oup.com/melus/articl...

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I'm officially tenured!!! I'm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me through it all. I'm humbled and honored to continue this work as an Associate Professor. 🎉🙏🤩

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Still reeling from this fabulous event! Thank you, Profe! 🙏🏽💜

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Behind every major movement are countless silently abused women and girls.

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Headed to my present my paper on the Aenikkaeng Koreans of 1905 at the C19 conference! Part of an awesome panel on the Latinx-Asian Commons of the Long Nineteenth Century with other papers on Chinese, Punjabi, and Mexican relationalities in print and literature! Co-chaired w/ @ayendy.bsky.social!

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Super excited to be in conversation with all this brilliance as we conceptualize a “Latinx-Asian commons” at @c19americanists.bsky.social conference! Would love to see you there! 💜🙏🏽

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Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury College Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚

Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?

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New Books in Latinx Studies: Conversations with Authors

I’m honored to be a part of this conversación! Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s Book Release: Dique Dominican - La Prensa Newspaper At The University of Toledo By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s book, Dique Dominican, is finally out, and the book release presentation was held at The University of Toledo (UToledo) on...

Thank you so much to Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce for covering the launch event for Dique Dominican. Please check out La Prensa Ohio and Michigan Bilingual Newspaper, northwest Ohio’s oldest and continuously running Latinx newspaper. 💜🙏🏽
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DIQUE DOMINICAN is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child.
#books

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I am incredibly humbled and grateful! Congratulations to my fellow poetas: winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and contributors! Palante mi gente. This is a big one. 🙏🏽💜😭🇭🇹🇩🇴

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I’m placing a new order today. Let me know if you’d like a personalized copy in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. $30 includes shipping 🙏🏽💜

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I’m heading to the post office and still have a few copies left. Let me know if you want one. $30 (includes shipping)

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Friends, join Dr. Lorgia García Peña and I today at 1:30 PM for the virtual launch of Dique Dominican. I’ll be giving away a free signed copy of the book to a lucky attendee in addition to, what I know will be, a great conversation. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...

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I’m enormously grateful to all those who attended the book launch for Dique Dominican as well as all who were there in spirit. Thank you so much!

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¡Mi gente! I have signed copies for sale. They come with a custom Dique Dominican bookmark. Email me at ayendy9 [at] gmail, or private message me if interested. $30 (including shipping). 🙏🏽💜

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English Professor Explores Identity, Anger, Belonging in Revised Memoir | UToledo News Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s “Dique Dominican” blends personal history with cultural analysis to challenge the feeling that you are not who you are “supposed” to be.

¡Palante, mi gente!
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“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!

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It’s official! Today, Dique Dominican is out in the word! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🏽💜🥳
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Colonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT! “Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...

"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics."

Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...

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Read about it here www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

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I’m putting your copy in the mail mañana. Can’t wait to chat! 💜🙏🏽

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¡Advanced copies of Dique Dominican are here!💜🥳🙏🏽🇩🇴🇭🇹

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Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...

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New poem! Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social

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Mark your calendarios!

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Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901 Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Friends! My book is 50% off today—only $12:48. I’m grateful for your support! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...

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