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 plagiarism, as well as on fictions that imagine and problematize alternative forms of social and political organization, 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, and new materialisms in the context of an escalating ecological crisis. Focusing on contemporary texts that 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, 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. 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.

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.