I am an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at USC. From 2023 to 2025, I was a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell and received my Ph.D. from Stanford in 2023.
My research addresses the still unresolved question of what “writing” is. My first book project argues that early Latin American novelists posited intricate theories of writing in their fiction, debunking the myth of the author as a “spontaneously inspired genius” and reconceiving the act of penning as a mediated, embodied, effortful, and ecological activity. In my follow-up research, I explore how South American science fiction and Queer art imagine writing technologies of the future.
I am the co-editor of two books of Latin American literary and cultural studies, Queer Latin American Voices (2024, with Alberto Quintero) and Sujetos del latinoamericanismo (2023, with Héctor Hoyos and Florencia Garramuño). My work has been published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in collected volumes and peer-reviewed publications, including the specialized journals Revista Iberoamericana and Guaraguao, the interdisciplinary journals Acta Philologica, 452ºF and Feminist Theory, and the books Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures (De Gruyter 2023), Régimen escópico y experiencia (Argus-a, 2022), and Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia (Universidade de Brasília, 2022). My research has also appeared in online platforms geared toward a broader audience (including the Latin America-based Otra Parte and Revista Luthor) and in university newspapers (such as TheCornell Chronicle). Over the last two years, I delivered lectures at Harvard University, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Cornell University, and Stanford University.
