I am an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish at Ohio University, where I teach Spanish language courses and courses on Hispanic literatures and cultures. 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, posthumanism, and new materialisms. I hold a PhD and an MA in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (emphasis in Spanish and Latin American Studies) from the University of Southern California, an MS in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

My first book manuscript, Writing the Common: Literature and Utopia in Latin America, examines literature’s engagement with the common in contemporary Latin America. It theorizes literature as a practice of commoning that both reconfigures literature as a common and imagines alternative forms of collective life in which the common operates as a logic of social and political organization. The manuscript brings these mutually illuminating dimensions together through analyses of literary plagiarism, disappropriative rewriting, collective authorship, and fictions that imagine and problematize utopian forms of collective life.

I am also working on a second book project, Contested Natures: Literature and the Posthumanist Imagination in Latin America, which analyzes how contemporary Latin American literature decenters the human by giving protagonism to natural elements and forces. The book identifies a central tension within the region's posthumanist imagination between preserving nature as strange, opaque, or irreducible to the human and rendering it legible by translating it into human registers. In tracing the different ways literary works negotiate this tension, it explores the possibilities and limits of literature's capacity to decenter the human and imagine forms of relationality amid environmental devastation rooted in capitalism's violent organization of nature.

My work has appeared in Chasqui, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Universum, and other venues. I serve on the scientific committee of Pirandante. Revista de Lengua y Literatura Hispanoamericana and the evaluation committee of [sic]. Revista Arbitrada de la Asociación de Profesores de Literatura del Uruguay.

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