Book Manuscript In Progress

Corazones Urbanos: Critical Literary Regionalism and Southwest Cities.

This book project centers urban space as a critical site of struggle and cultural production in Mexican American literature, advancing a place-based methodology grounded in critical literary regionalism. Through case studies from Albuquerque, Tucson, and San Antonio, it argues that Mexican American narratives function as spatial critique, challenging erasure and illuminating the local dynamics of global urbanization.

Book Chapters

• Jorge A. Hernández Jr., “‘Region as Method’: Urban Renewal and Cartographic Memory in Three Tucsonense Writers.” New Directions in Latinx Literary Studies, edited by William Orchard and Yolanda Padilla. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming 2027.

Book Chapters In Preparation

• Jorge A. Hernández Jr., “Becoming Mexican American and the Autobiographical Bildungsroman.” The Cambridge History of the Latina/o Novel, edited by Cristina Pérez Jiménez and William Orchard (Under Contract, Cambridge University Press). To be submitted June 2027.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Vielma, Maria, and Jorge A. Hernández Jr. “Consejos y enseñanzas from the Graduate Student Perspective: Implementing Culturally Responsive Practices and Creating Teaching Moments in Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) Classrooms.” Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL), 2025, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 104-123.
• Gil-Oslé, Juan Pablo et. al. [including Jorge A. Hernández Jr.]. “La Galatea y Calíope en el siglo XXI: Del papel a Wikipedia.” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, 2020, 45, pp. 165-175.
• Jorge A. Hernández Jr. “La sexualidad y su descontento: erotismo y poder en el cine de Luis Buñuel.” Arenas Blancas: Revista literaria y lingüística, 2020, no. 15, pp. 74-79.
• Jorge A. Hernández Jr. “Transcending History: An Interpretive Study of Mexico’s Corrido (1974-present).” Southern New Mexico Historical Review, 2018, 25, pp. 31-43.

Articles Under Review

• “From the Flight of ‘El Gavilán’: The Life, Times, and Writings of Mario Suárez.” Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad (Submitted, August 2026).

Articles in Preparation

• “Writing the Local in the Flow of the Global: Critical Regional Aesthetics in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue.” In preparation for Western American Literature, planned submission: January 2027.
• “Puro Corazón”: Memory, Urban Renewal, and the Affective Archive in A. Gabriel Meléndez’s Barrio Prose. In Preparation for Chiricú Journal, planned submission: June 2027.
• “City of Wings: Place, Memory, and the Feminized City in Carmen Tafolla’s San Antonio.” In Preparation for Southwestern American Literature, planned submission: December 2027.

Book Reviews

Review of Melanie “Mele” Ramírez’s The Molino: A Memoir (University of Arizona Press, 2024). Latin@ Literatures. Online.

Review of José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Anna M. Nogar, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, eds., A History of Mexican Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Romance Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Review of Miguel Juárez’s Frontera Freeways: Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas (University of North Texas Press, 2025). Journal of Borderlands Studies. Forthcoming.

Review of Nasario García’s Martineztown, 1945: Tales of Life and Loss in an Albuquerque Barrio (University of New Mexico Press, 2025). Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. Forthcoming.

Review of Laura Belmonte’s Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture (University of New Mexico Press, 2024). Letras Hispanas: Revista de literatura y cultura, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 144-146. (in Spanish)

Review of Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest (Duke University Press, 2021). Southern New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 30, pp. 61–63 (English); companion Spanish-language review in Intersecciones Hispánicas, no. 1, pp. 107–108.

Review of Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer R. Herrera, eds., Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (University of New Mexico Press, 2020). New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 117-118.

Digital Humanities

Founder and Director, Mapas del Corazón (ArcGIS StoryMaps)

A community-engaged digital archive accompanying my book manuscript, Corazones Urbanos, Mapas del Corazón maps Chicanx literary works and the ways writers imagine and inscribe the cities they write about. Drawing on oral histories, photographs, and literary narratives, the project documents displacement and spatial transformation in Tucson, Albuquerque, and San Antonio.

Director, Albu(r)querque Literario (ArcGIS StoryMaps)

• Rudolfo Anaya’s Heart of Aztlán (1976). A tour mapping the novel’s settings in the community of Barelas. Published Aug. 19, 2026.
• Gabriel Meléndez’s Barrio Prose: “Visiones otoñales/Autumn Visions” (1988) and Reflexiones del Corazón (1994). An interactive tour through Barelas and the South Valley. Published Sept. 1, 2026.
• In development: Luis S. Martínez’s Canciones y poesía (1944); Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín and Meditations on the South Valley (1987); and Nasario García’s Martíneztown, 1945 (2025).