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 monograph, Unproductive Writings: Refusals of Productivity in Early Latin American Fiction (under contract with Fordham University Press) 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 an 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 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), as well as two forthcoming special issues: Iphigenia: Centenario for Nuevo Texto Crítico (with Héctor Hoyos) and (Re)Intersecting Latin America with Latin Americanism for Hispanic Review.
My work has been published or is forthcoming in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in peer-reviewed journals such as New Literary History, Comparative Literature Studies, Acta Philologica, Revista Iberoamericana, and Feminist Theory, and in edited volumes including Post-Global Aesthetics (De Gruyter, 2023), Régimen escópico y experiencia (Argus-a, 2022), and Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia (Universidade de Brasília, 2022).
