I am 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, Writing the Common: Literature and Utopia in Latin America, examines literature’s engagement with the common in contemporary Latin American literature. It focuses on works that foreground literature’s collective dimension through plagiarism, rewriting, collective authorship, and collaborative spaces of literary production, as well as on fictions that imagine and problematize alternative forms of social and political organization.

I am also working on a second project, Contested Natures: Literature and the Posthuman Imagination in Latin America, which analyzes how contemporary Latin American literature decenter the human by giving protagonism to natural elements and forces. The project examines the tension 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.

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.

You can access my CV here.