I am currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish at Ohio University, where I teach courses in Spanish language and Hispanic literatures and cultures. I hold a Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture from the University of Southern California, a M.S. in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University, and a B.A. in Communication Science from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

My teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of 20th-century and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, political theory, environmental humanities, utopian studies, Indigenous studies, and posthumanism. My first book manuscript, Constellations of the Common: Literature and Utopia in Latin America, examines the relationship between literature and the concept of the common through readings of contemporary works by authors such as Ricardo Piglia, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Gabriela Wiener, and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil. The book argues that exploring this articulation can shed light on literature’s utopian dimension and its potential to envision alternative worlds in an era of increasing distrust in political institutions, growing inequality, and environmental catastrophe in the region.

My second book project, Literature in the Capitalocene: Nature(s), Capital, and Resistance in Latin America, examines the intersection of contemporary Latin American literature, environmental humanities, posthumanism, and new materialisms in the context of an escalating ecological crisis. It explores texts that both foreground capitalism’s role in environmental devastation and decenter the human by giving protagonism to natural elements and forces, challenging the idea of nature as a passive object for exploitation. Focusing on novels and short stories by Fernanda Trías, Karina Pacheco, Roberto Chuit Roganovich, and Michel Nieva, among others, the book argues that these literary texts challenge the dominant Anthropocene discourse, which often obscures the structural forces driving ecological destruction, and allow us to imagine alternative forms of conceiving the relationship between humanity and nature.

My work has appeared in Chasqui, Universum, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and other venues.

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