APPOINTMENTS & EDUCATION
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University.
Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University. Dissertation title: Against Productivity: Unproductive Writing as Resistance in Early Latin American Fiction.
M.Phil. in Hispanic Studies, University of Glasgow. Thesis title: Obeying and Resisting Gendered Normativities in Contemporary Argentine Fiction.
B.A. in Modern Literature and Literary Theory, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Spec. in Creative Writing, Casa de Letras.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Edited volumes
Queer Latin American Voices. Weston: Katakana Editores. Co-edited with Alberto Quintero. 2024.
Sujetos del latinoamericanismo. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Co-edited with Héctor Hoyos and Florencia Garramuño. 2023.
SPECIAL ISSUES
Iphigenia: centenario, Nuevo Texto Crítico, Vol. 30. Co-edited with Héctor Hoyos and Álvaro Contreras. Forthcoming, 2025.
MOST RECENT TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
“Against Productivity: Unproductive Writing in Early Latin American Fiction,” Cornell University. April 2025.
“Beyond Imagination’s Bounds: A Venezuelan Feminist Expansion of English Romantic Conceptions of ‘Writing’ and ‘the Writer’,” Harvard University, December 2024.
“Seasick Metabolism as Style in Gabriel Catren’s Pleromatica, or Elsinore’s Trance,” Université de Toulouse, September 2024.
“Casarse o escribirse: escritura improductiva v. reproducción socioeconómica en Ifigenia (1924) de Teresa de la Parra,” Stanford University, April 2024.
“Escritura improductiva en Ifigenia (1924) de Teresa de la Parra,” Sorbonne Université, April 2024.
“Against Predictability: Affordances of Unproductive Writing for Anthropodecentric Thinking,” Stanford University. February 2023.
“Pluma en mano(s): la escritura como tecnociencia y como performance en la novela latinoamericana decimonónica,” IILI Conference. July 5-8, 2023.
ARTICLES
“Ways of Queerness: Two Cursory Readings of Robin Myers’ Hunting and Gathering.” Acta Philologica 62.1, 2024, 51-73.
“Cómo banalizar la deconstrucción en solo cinco pasos. Usos, ¿abusos? y potencialidades del término ‘deconstrucción’ en el presente,” Revista Luthor, Volume 53, 2022, 1-27.
“¿Puede la literatura hacer metafísica? Metafísica no-proposicional y aperturas inter-cosmológicas en ‘Meu tio o Iauaretê’ de João Guimarães Rosa,” Revista Iberoamericana, Issue 281, Volume 88, 2022, 927-38.
“Women’s ‘Exchange’ in Amerindian and Western Societies: A Feminist Critique of Perspectival Anthropology,” Feminist Theory, Volume 1, 2021, 2-17. DOI: 14647001211009006.
“Rastros, andares y cruces: la plurisemanticidad de la figura del zapato al filo de la frontera Estados Unidos-México,” Revista Guaraguao, Volume 62, 2020. Available at: <revistaguaraguao.es/producto/numero-62-digital/>.
“Huellas (des)calzadas: Rastros y desplazamientos de la teoría estética heideggeriana en Atrabiliarios de Doris Salcedo,” 452ºF. Revista de Teoría de la literatura y Literatura Comparada, Volume 19, 2018, 29–39.
“Dónde está la ciencia en ‘ciencia ficción’: Una defensa de la apropiación estética del conocimiento científico en la era de su accesibilidad digital,” Revista Luthor, Volume 34, 2018, 36-51.
“La punción de la novedad. Análisis sobre la política editorial de la revista Otra Parte y sus modos recientes del ejercicio de la crítica,” El Matadero, Volume 1, 2015, 57-68.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Writing about Writing Amidst the End of Worlds: An Invitation.” Post-Global Aesthetics: Twenty-First Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Edited by Gesine Müller and Benjamin Loy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
“Alter-regímenes escópicos. Modos de ver y de ser visto en la narrativa especulativa contemporánea.” Régimen escópico y experiencia. Figuraciones de la mirada y el cuerpo en la literatura y las artes. Edited by Alicia Montes and Cristina Ares. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles: Argus-a, 2022.
“O que há de real no virtual.” Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia. Co-authored with Ami Schiess. Edited by Rodolfo Augusto Melo Ward de Oliveira. Brasília: Universidade de Brasília, 2022.
“Motion graphics: límites y potencias estético-políticas en corporalidades digitales anómalas.” Política y estética de los cuerpos. Distribución de lo sensible en la literatura y las artes visuales. Edited by Alicia Montes and Cristina Ares. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles: Argus-a, 2019.
“De la invisibilidad a la desindividuación. La desintegración corporal como posibilidad probable.” Cuerpos presentes. Figuraciones de la muerte, la enfermedad, la anomalía y el sacrificio. Edited by Alicia Montes and Cristina Ares. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles: Argus-a, 2017.
REVIEWS
“El libro de los caballitos (2020) de Valeria Meiller,” Revista Otra Parte, March 2021. Available at: <revistaotraparte.com/literatura-argentina/el-libro-de-los-caballitos>.
IN THE NEWS
“Writing against productivity in Latin American fiction”
“Klarman Fellow co-edits trilingual ‘Queer Latin American Voices’”
CONFERENCES & PANELS ORGANIZED
Workshop Organizer, “Writing Technologies, Writing Ecologies,” Cornell Tech. Forthcoming, March 22, 2025.
Panel Organizer, “Monstrous Writings,” Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, October 14, 2024.
Panel Organizer, “Media(tiza)ciones literarias: conocimiento científico, tecnología y materialidad en la literatura latinoamericana (1840-2020),” XLIV International Conference, The Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, July 5-8, 2023. Co-organized with Valeria Meiller (University of Texas, San Antonio).
Conference Organizer, “Primavera Especulativa,” National University of Córdoba. September 22, 2022. Co-sponsored by The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and The French National Centre for Scientific Research. Co-organized with Gabriel Catren (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and Emmanuel Biset (National University of Córdoba).
Conference Organizer, “The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity from Poetry to Mathematics,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University. October 28, 2021. Co-sponsored by the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Co-organized with Gabriel Catren (French National Centre for Scientific Research).
Roundtable Chair, “Latin American Studies in a Post-Anthropocentric World: Political, Social, and Epistemological Challenges for Literary Scholars,” Latin American Studies Association Conference. May 5-8, 2022. Co-chaired with Prof. Valeria Meiller (University of Texas at San Antonio).
Panel Chair, “Post-Anthropocentrism in Latin America: New Approaches to the Human and the Non-human,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, March 11-14, 2021. Co-chaired with Michel Nieva (New York University).
Conference Organizer, “Matter, Sentience, and Agency: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human and the Non-Human,” Stanford Humanities Center. Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, the School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. March 30, 2020 [Postponed due to COVID-19]. Co-organized with Victoria Zurita (Stanford University).
Conference Organizer, “Stanford-Harvard Conference: Objects in Theory, Theory in Objects,” Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, December 10, 2018. Co-organized with Isaac Magaña G. Canton (Harvard University).
Panel Chair, Duke-Stanford Philosophy and Literature Graduate Conference “Interiorities. Reflecting Subjectivity and Sociality,” Stanford University, April 27-28, 2018.
Conference Organizer, “Sujetos del latinoamericanismo: actores, redes y teorías,” Stanford University, February 24, 2018. Co-organized with Prof. Héctor Hoyos (Stanford University).
Panel Chair, “Tiempo recobrado: revisiones contemporáneas del imaginaruio histórico colonial desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria,” Latin American Studies Association Conference, 2018.
TEACHING (MOST RECENT COURSES)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Instructor, “Climate Change and Latin American Naturecultures,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
This course explores fundamental concepts of the environmental humanities as they relate to the inseparable natural and cultural phenomena that constitute climate change in Latin America. The class is structured around different ecological themes, such as energy and extractive industries, the Amazon, the desert, the Andes, the Caribbean, and urban habitats, that will be examined through twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American novels, films, short stories, and songs.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Instructor, “Senior Seminar: 4 Boom Novels,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. With Héctor Hoyos.
This course examines four representative novels of the so-called “Latin American Literary Boom,” which put authors Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar in the international spotlight. Novels are read from the perspectives of historiography and literary criticism, paying equal attention to ideological contexts and intrinsic literary features at play.
Teaching Assistant, “Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Prof: Joan Ramon Resina.
This seminar follows the development of Existentialism from its genesis to its literary expressions in the European postwar. The notions of defining commitment and moral ambiguity, the project of the self, and the critique of humanism are examined in selected texts by Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Joan Sales.
Instructor, “Resisting Coloniality: Then and Now,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. With Leonardo Velloso-Lyons.
This course offers a deep dive into the emergence of Western colonialism by focusing on literary and cultural strategies of resisting coloniality in Latin America from the 16th century to the present. The class examines critiques of empire through an array of sources (novel, letter, short story, sermon, history, essay), spanning from early modern denunciations of the oppression of indigenous and enslaved peoples to modern Latin American answers to the dominant cultural paradigms in the post-independence era: Spain, France, and the United States.
Teaching Assistant, “Jaguars & Labyrinths: A Survey of South American Short Fiction,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. With Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo.
This course surveys ten South American short stories in ten weeks—it explores tales of jaguars and octopuses, labyrinthic cities and eerie parks, magicians and mediums, time loops and spatial stretches. Each of the works offers a unique insight into South American literature, history, and culture. The class focuses on twentieth and twenty-first-century stories that deal with the future of techno-science, the interaction between Western and Indigenous worldviews, the intersection of fiction and reality, the relation between the human and the non-human, and the planetary ecological crisis. Authors include Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, João Guimarães Rosa, Vilém Flusser, and Conceição Evaristo.
Instructor, “Modern Latin American Literature,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. With Héctor Hoyos.
This course examines significant authors and works of Hispanic and Brazilian Portuguese literatures from independence to the present, focusing on fictional prose and poetry. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Darío, Martí, Agustini, Vallejo, Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, Rulfo, García Marquez, and Bolaño.
Teaching Assistant, “Magical Realism and Globalization,” Stanford Summer Institutes. Prof: Héctor Hoyos.
What is “magical realism?” Is it a genre, a style, a label for elaborated fiction from the Third World? How does magical realism, a globalized phenomenon, reflect upon globalization itself? The course addresses such questions by studying fascinating literary works that come from places as diverse as Cuba, Colombia, India, Germany, and the United States. The course’s main goals are to trace the trajectory of the concept from its origins in 1920s post-expressionist painting to its contemporary developments, as well as to articulate well-informed positions on the scholarly debates that pertain to both particular seminal works and magical realism as a whole.
FOREIGN OBJEKT ART NETWORK
Instructor, “Does Matter Matter? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Artistic Praxes.”
This course explores an interdisciplinary corpus of texts that deal with the relationships between artistic theory and practice, as well as with the connections between the artist’s body and artistic objects’ materiality. The selected corpus, as well as the cross-disciplinary and post-anthropocentric methodology adopted for its analysis, helps students develop ways of epistemologically and aesthetically engaging with the plasticity, resilience, frailty, and consistency of matter.
UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Instructor, “Los ‘relatos del yo’ como problema.” [‘Writing the Self’ as a Problem]. With Dámaso Andrés Rabanal Gatica (Universidad Austral de Chile).
This pre-collegiate course addresses the nature of self-growth and subjectivity through the study of Latin American literature. The class seeks to be a space for metacognitive reflection where young students can critically consider what it means to write in the first person, to dare to say “YO.” Through analyses of literary and testimonial texts and writing activities, the course also explores how theoretical categories (such as subjectivity, performativity, and gender) play out in auto-fictional and self-referential stories narrated in the first person.
CUNA MEX
Instructor, “Literatura, máquinas y lenguajes: bases para el futuro de lo literario.” [Literature, Machines, and Languages: Foundations for Literary Futures]. With Rodrigo Baraglia (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
This course surveys one hundred years’ worth of theory about what “literature” was, is, and might be in the future. The class examines historical ways of thinking about the relationship between literature, machines, and language, considering that literary objects are always part of a broad technological, social, and artistic ecosystem. Beginning with the birth of literary theory in the early twentieth century, the class addresses connections between: written language and speech; literary language and everyday language; books and technoscience; literature and politics; fiction and futurity; literary objects and other media, such as cinema, comics, and videogames.
CENTRO CULTURAL RECOLETA
Instructor, Creative Writing.
This course provides students with a beginner’s guide to creative writing. Topics addressed in the class include character formation and development, plot design and unfolding, style consolidation and refinement, genre-based expectations and dynamics, and the breaking of genre-based rules for aesthetic and dramatic purposes.
INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE BUENOS AIRES
Instructor, Communication and Discourse Analysis.
This class equips students with tools for effective communication in academic and professional settings. Topics covered include characteristics of logical argumentation, particularities of academic and formal discourse, skills for effective oral delivery and presentation, structuration and composition of academic papers, and composition of research reports.
Instructor, Spanish as a Foreign Language.
In this third-year course, students acquire advanced Spanish linguistic skills by using the language in culturally specific and academically-oriented settings. Meetings focus on delivering oral presentations about contemporary issues, developing hypotheses about abstract and complex subjects, and writing argumentative texts in appropriate formal and academic registers.
EDITING WORK
Nuevo Texto Crítico Journal. <muse.jhu.edu/journal/412>
Assistant Editor, 2022-23.
PhilPapers.org
Assistant Editor, Philosophy of Literature.
ANSES Argentina (National Social Security Administration).
Assistant Editor and Communications Consultant, I.T. & Innovation Office.
Argentine Ministry of Education.
Assistant Editor and Social Media Manager, “Conectar Igualdad” Digital Equality Program.
VOLUNTEERING WORK
New Books Network en Español
Contributor, Latin American Literature and Literature & Cultural Studies.
La Usina Non-for-Profit.
Editor and Social Media Manager, Accessibility and Outreach Office.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Diversity Innovation Funds (DIF) Grant, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University. Funds to carry out the graduate-led project “Queer Latin American Voices: Revisiting the Past, Reading the Present, Writing the Future.”
Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.
Mary Anne Bours Nimmo Graduate Fellowship, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.
France-Stanford Collaborative Research Project Grant, Stanford University. Funds to carry out the inter-institutional project “The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity from Poetry to Mathematics.” Faculty Chairs: Marisa Galvez (Italian and French, Stanford) and Gabriel Catren (Paris Diderot University, French National Centre for Scientific Research).
The Europe Center Graduate Student Grant Competition, Stanford University. Funds to conduct field and archival work on a research project titled “Written in Stones: Tracing Early Modern Iberian Origins of the Modern Brazilian Mining Economy,” Lisbon, Coimbra, and Madrid.
Center for Latin American Studies Field Research Grant, Stanford University. Funds to conduct fieldwork on a research project titled “Darkest Stones: The Impact of Long-Term Mining in Southeastern Brazilian Culture,” Belo Horizonte.
Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages Grant, Stanford University. Travel grant for the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Boston.
Stanford-Leuphana Grant, Stanford University and Leuphana University. Travel grant for the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy, Berlin, June 2019.
Center for Latin American Studies Faculty-Led Conference Fund (w/Prof. Héctor Hoyos). Funds for the Stanford-Harvard Conference “Objects in Theory, Theory in Objects,” Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University.
The New Centre for Research & Practice Seminar Scholarship. Seminar: “Of the Tautological Universe of Value Production” taught by Dr. Katerina Kolozova at The New Centre for Research & Practice.
Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages Grant, Stanford University. Travel grant for the NYPH Winter Summit, New York University.
McGill-UCLA Conference Grant. Funds for the Objects of Conversion in Early Modern Europe Conference, University of California, Los Angeles.
Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages Grant, Stanford University. Travel grant for the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Barcelona.
ACADEMIC ROLES AND SERVICE
Coordinator, “Job Market Workshop,” Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, Stanford University.
Representative, Wellness Information Network for Graduate Students, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.
Coordinator, “Queer Latin American Voices: Revisiting the Past, Reading the Present, Writing the Future,” Diversity Innovation Funds Project, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University. Co-coordinated with Alberto Quintero (Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford).
Coordinator, “The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity from Poetry to Mathematics,” France-Stanford Collaborative Research Project. Faculty PI: Marisa Galvez (French & Italian, Stanford) and Gabriel Catren (Paris Diderot University, French National Centre for Scientific Research).
Coordinator, Research Unit “Materia,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University. Faculty Pi: Héctor Hoyos (Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford), Ximena Briceño (Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford), and Lea Pao (German Studies, Stanford).
Coordinator, “The Gothic Research Unit,” Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University. Co-coordinated with Cristian Soler (Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford) and Cynthia Laura Vialle-Giancotti (French & Italian, Stanford).
Graduate Student Representative, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University.
FURTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING & ADDITIONAL COURSES
The University of Granada.
IberLab International Doctoral Summer School “Futuro desde los Sures: distopía, ecología y fin del mundo.” Instructors: Prof. Mariano Siskind, Roland Breeur, Franco Bifo Berardi, Úrsula Heise, Guillermo Rojo, and Carmen Castillo Peña.
Stanford University-Leuphana University.
Summer Academy “Against Presentism. Historicizing Mediality.” Instructors: Prof. Shane Denson, Fred Turner, Claus Pias, Marisa Galvez, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and Karla Oeler. Stanford Berlin Haus Cramer.
The New Centre for Research & Practice.
Seminar “Of the Tautological Universe of Value Production.” Instructor: Prof. Katerina Kolozova.
University of Glasgow.
Professional Training Workshop “Modern Language Studies: Exercises in Reflective Practice.” Instructor: Prof. James Simpson.
Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Research Unit “Cuerpo presente. Artes visuales y literatura latinoamericana contemporáneas.” Faculty PI: Prof. Alicia Montes and Dr. María Cristina Ares.
Seminar “Ficción, transmedialidad y mundos posibles narrativos” Instructor: Dr. Mariano Vilar.
Research Unit “Cuerpos insumisos y paradigmas críticos.” Faculty PI: Prof. Claudio Martyniuk and Dr. Oriana Seccia.
Research Unit “Cruces y fugas en el modernismo y el posmodernismo hispanoamericanos.” Faculty PI: Prof. Ariela Schnirmajer.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native.
English: Near-native.
Portuguese: Advanced.