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 Ph.D. and a M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (emphasis on Latin American Studies) from the University of Southern California, and a M.S. in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University.

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. The manuscript brings these mutually illuminating dimensions together through analyses of literary plagiarism, rewriting, collective authorship, and collaborative literary production, and fictions that imagine and problematize utopian forms of social and political organization.

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. It identifies a tension within the region’s posthumanist imagination between works that present nature as strange, opaque, or irreducible to the human and those that render it legible by translating it into human registers, exploring the potential and limitations of both approaches.

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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