Books:

Expected Publication October 2025. Co-authored with Lorna Dillon. The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra: Music, Poetry, and Art. Bloomsbury.

2023. Salvador Allende and the Villa San Luis: Icons of the Just City. New York: Palgrave McMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-18938-8.

2021. Editor and Contributor. Blest Gana at 100. Published by Open Cultural Studies.

Introduction: “Alberto Blest Gana: 100 Years Later,” no. 5, pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2021-0003;

Contribution: “Alberto Blest Gana and the Sensory Appeal of Wealth, ” no. 5, pp. 81-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2021-0006.

2020. Editor and Contributor. Negotiating Space in Latin America. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://brill.com/view/title/55707.

– Selected by Choice 2020 List of Outstanding Academic Titles.

Introduction: “Dis/Locating Space in Latin America.” Negotiating Space in Latin America, ed. Patricia Vilches, 3-18. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers;

Contribution: “La Moneda in Ruins: The Palace Tomb and Epitaph of Salvador Allende.” Negotiating Space in Latin America, ed. Patricia Vilches, 300-328. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

2018. Editor and Contributor. Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes. New York: Palgrave McMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319693019.

Introduction: “Con fuerza, Violeta Parra: The Artist and Her Legacy.” Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes, ed. Patricia Vilches, 1-10. New York: Palgrave McMillan;

Contribution: “Violeta Parra: Her Museum and Carpa as Spaces of Nostalgia.” Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes, ed. Patricia Vilches, 103-117. New York: Palgrave McMillan.

2017. Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile. Cambridge Scholars.

2007. Editor with Gerald Seaman. And Contributor. Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Introduction: “The Enduring Power of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Overview of his Life and Times.”  In Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Eds. Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, 1-18. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers;

Contribution: “The Mask in the Mirror: Nicomaco as an Imprudent Ruler-Prince in the Clizia.” In Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Eds. Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, 219-244. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Articles (Selected):

2024. “Violeta Parra: The Hybrid Space of an Ethnographer and Artist.” Journal of Romances Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 33–54. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2024.

2023. “Alberto Blest Gana and the Unhappy Endings of Beautiful Men.” Hispanic Review, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 363-85.

2021. “A Portrait of the urban female: Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria and Gloria Bell.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 18, no.3, pp. 259–75. https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00055_1.

2021. “When No Means ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’” Film International, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 124–35. https://doi.org/10.1386/fint_00093_1. FINT 19.2.

2019. “El tejido de la nación: El orden social, la moda y los accesorios en dos novelas de Alberto Blest Gana [The Fabric of a Nation: Social Order, Fashion, and Accessories in Two Novels by Alberto Blest Gana]. Anales de Literatura Chilena, no. 32, pp. 35–58.

2019. “Geografías humanas y espacio del Chile moderno en las Décimas de Violeta Parra” [Human Geographies and the Space of the Modern in Violeta Parra’s Décimas]. Artelogie 13, pp. 1–19. https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/3098.

2017. “Cervantes, Lizardi, and the Literary Construction of the Mexican Rogue in Don Catrín de la fachenda.” Open Cultural Studies, no. 1, pp. 428–41. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0040.

2017. “Chivalry, Materialism, and the Grotesque in Don Quijote and Alberto Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera.” Open Cultural Studies, no. 1, pp. 17–31.

https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0003.

2016. “Andrés Wood’s Machuca and Violeta Went to Heaven: The Geographical Spaces of Conflict in Chile.” Latin American Perspectives, no. 43.5, pp. 45–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X16651084.

2013. “Violeta se fue a los cielos de Andrés Wood: El naufragio de La Carpa de La Reina.” [Violeta Went to Heaven by Andrés Wood. The Wreckage of the Tent of La Reina] Ed. Rosa Tapia, “Spanish and Latin American Cinema.” Revista Internacional D’Humanitats, no. 29, pp. 63–80.

http://www.hottopos.com/rih29/63-80Vilches_REV-RT.pdf.

2013. “Monumental Italians: Machiavelli, Giuseppe Rondizzoni and Chilean Independence.” Forum Italicum, no.47, pp. 346–63. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0014585813484251 .

2012. “Prudenza as Spectacle: Machiavelli, Cervantes, and Their Leading Ladies.” In The Power of Place. Chasson, Robert Timothy and Thomas J. Sienkewicz, eds., 210–19. Chicago: Associated Colleges of the Midwest.

2011. “Not a Fox but a Lion: A Machiavellian Reading of Chile’s First President, José Miguel Carrera.” M/MLA Journal, no. 44, pp. 123–44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23621448 .

2010. “Rocín-Antes: La vestimenta y el lujo como referentes de ascendencia social y espacio económico en la nobleza espiritual de Don Quijote y Martín Rivas” [Rocín-Antes: Dressing, Luxury, Upward Mobility and Economic Space in Don Quijote and Martín Rivas] Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, Revised 2010. Available: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/nd/ark:/59851/bmc086r7.

2010. “Martín Rivas, Maquiavelo y masculinidad decimonónica chilena” [Martín Rivas, Machiavelli and Nineteenth-Century Chilean Masculinity] Anales de Literatura Chilena, no.13, pp. 69–88.

2010. “Alicia Galaz: Transculturación, Ilusión y Acción humana en poesía” [Transculturation, Illusion, and Human Action in Poetry] Trilce, no. 28, pp. 34–38.

2008. “El cuerpo femenino: Efectos estéticos de política neoliberal y violencia urbana en las Décimas de Violeta Parra.” [The Feminine Body: Aesthetic Effects of Neoliberal Politics and Urban Violence in Violeta Parra’s Décimas] IXQUIC: Revista Hispánica internacional de análisis literario y cultural, no. 9, pp. 61–84.

2008. “‘Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero:’ Espacio socio-económico y conceptos de nacionalismo en Don Quijote y en Don Catrín de la Fachenda de Lizardi” [Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero: Socio-Economic Space and Concepts of Nationalism in Don Quijote and Lizardi’s Don Catrín de la Fachenda] Nueva revista del Pacífico, no. 53, pp. 121–43.

2008. “Pugna en el convento y la cocina: Los recovecos de la fe y la construcción del ‘yo’ femenino en los films Yo la peor de todas y Como agua para chocolate” [Conflict in the Convent and the Kitchen: The Crannies of Faith and the Construction of a feminine ‘I’ in the films I, Worst of All and Like Water for Chocolate] Journal of CEJ (Centro de estudios judaicos), no. 14, pp. 133–48.

2008. “La más bella de Mandalay: Construcciones de la feminidad oriental en dos poemas de Residencia en la tierra de Neruda” [La más bella de Mandalay: Constructions of Oriental Femininity in two Poems of Residencia en la tierra by Neruda] In Moros en la costa: Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Ed. and Intro. Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia, 201–16. Madrid, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany; Iberoamericana; Vervuert.

2006. “El paraíso perdido: La ausencia, el destierro, y la memoria en la poética de Pedro Lastra” [Lost Paradise: Absence, Exile, and Memory in the Poetics of Pedro Lastra] In Arte de vivir: Acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra. Eds. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Luis Correa, 61–80. Santiago, Chile: RIL Editores.

2005. “Rocín-Antes:” La vestimenta, el lujo, y lo material como referentes de ascendencia social y espacio económico en la nobleza espiritual de Don Quijote y Martín Rivas” [Rocín-Antes: Dressing, Luxury, Upward Mobility and Economic Space in Don Quijote and Martín Rivas] Nueva revista del Pacífico, no. 50, pp. 157–76.

2004. “Is It Your Border or Mine? Linguistic Borders, Identity, and Subjectivity, in Mexican, Mexican-American and Dominican Fiction and Film.” CIBERLETRAS 11. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v11/vilches2.html.

2004. “De Violeta Parra a Víctor Jara y Los Prisioneros: Recuperación de la memoria colectiva e identidad cultural a través de la música comprometida” [From Violeta Parra to Víctor Jara and Los Prisioneros: Recuperation of Collective Memory and Cultural Identity through Protest Song] Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana, vol 25, no. 2, pp.195–215.