A visiting scholar in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, from January through December 2010, Amy Sara Carroll is an assistant professor of American Culture, Latina/o Studies, and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her academic essays have appeared in TDR, Signs, e-misférica, and the edited volume Representación y fronteras: el performance en los límites del género. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Version, Vandal, HOW2, Rattle, Jubilat, Talisman, Carolina Quarterly, The Lowa Review, Mandorla, Chain, Bombay Gin, Seneca Review, Borderlands, Faultline, The Bridge We Call Home, and Not for Mothers Only. She translated and created subtitles and visual poems for Claudio Valdés Kuri’s theatrical production El automóvil gris [The grey automobile], which has been presented in venues like the Wexner Center (Columbus, OH), the Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts (OR), the Goodman Latino Theater Festival (Chicago, IL), and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.). Her visual poetry has been displayed in various museums and festivals, including the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA), the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (Denver, CO), the Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY), ISEA 2009 (Dublin, Ireland), and FILE 2008 (São Paulo, Brazil). A chapbook/pamphlet, which she co-edited with Ricardo Dominguez, of group writing about the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), entitled Sustenance: A Play for All Trans [] Borders, was released by Printed Matter, Inc. in their “Artists & Activists” series (June 2010). Thirty poems she wrote for the Transborder Immigrant Tool also form part of an installation currently on display  in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. Her first book of poetry and prints SECESSION, is forthcoming in black-and-white and limited color editions from Hyperbole Books (an imprint of san Diego University Press).