. His translations include The Absent City (Duke University Press, 2000) by the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia, for which he received an NEA Translation Fellowship Award; Assumed Name, also by Ricardo Piglia (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1995); Dreams and Realities: Selected Fiction by the Argentine writer Juana Manuela Gorriti (Oxford Univ Press, Library of Latin America, 2003); and Juan de la Rosa by the Bolivian writer Nataniel Aguirre (Oxford Univ Press, Library of Latin America, 1998). His first book of literary criticism, Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2005. He is also completing his first novel, Leaving.