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. 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.

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 20th- and 21st-century works from authors across the region, including Ricardo Piglia, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Gioconda Belli, and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil. Focusing on practices of rewriting and literary plagiarism, as well as on fictions that imagine and problematize alternative forms of social and political organization, the book argues that exploring this articulation between literature and the common 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 project, Posthumanist Imaginaries: Encounters and Tensions in Latin American Literature, explores the intersection of contemporary Latin American literature, environmental humanities, posthumanism, and new materialisms in the context of an escalating ecological crisis. This project analyzes the diverse ways in which contemporary texts from genres such as science fiction, new weird, and ecohorror give protagonism to natural elements and forces. Rather than being portrayed as objects of exploitation, these elements acquire vitality and agency, challenging anthropocentric logic. More importantly, I argue that a productive tension arises within posthumanist imaginaries when addressing the question of what constitutes nature.

My work has appeared in Chasqui, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Universum, and other venues. I co-edited a special issue for Universum on baroque imaginations and politics in contemporary literature and am currently co-editing a special issue for Mediations on literature and the common(s). I am also a member of the scientific committee of Pirandante. Revista de Lengua y Literatura Hispanoamericana and a member of the evaluation committee of [sic]. Revista arbitrada de la Asociación de Profesores de Literatura del Uruguay.

I hold a Ph.D. and an 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 Social Communication from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

You can access my CV here.