Education & Professional History
Universidad de Los Andes, BA, MA; University of Notre Dame, PhD
Assistant Professor of Spanish at Concordia College (on leave)
At Carleton since 2022.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
Modern Languages Association (MLA); Latin American Studies Association (LASA); American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (ATTSP); Asociación de Colombianistas.
I am a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish at Carleton. My research interests include Latin American film, literature, and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. My book project focuses on carnivals and popular festivities in the Andes. Work in this agenda has been published in Hispania, Cuadernos de Literatura, and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana.
Peer-Reviewed
2022 “Mainstream feminism: female identities in Netflix hits Valeria and Toy Boy”. “Tu Casa Mi Casa”: Transnational Netflix’ Spain. University of Wales Press. (Forthcoming, Fall 2022).
2017 “Tiempo de fuga: Desterritorializaciones en Madeinusa de Claudia Llosa.” Hispania, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 612-623.
Other Publications
2022 Dossier on Pilar Quintana. Latin American Literature Today. (Forthcoming, Fall 2022).
2016 David Solodkow. Etnógrafos coloniales. Alteridad y escritura en la Conquista de América (siglo XVI). Editorial Vervuert, Iberoamericana, 2014. 506 pp. Cuadernos de Literatura, vol. 20, no. 39, pp. 489-494.
2015 Luis Fernando Restrepo. El Estado Impostor. Apropiaciones literarias y culturales de la memoria de los muiscas y la América indígena. Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2013. 186 pp. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, año XL, no. 80, pp. 431-472.
2012 Las fronteras desdibujadas: el problema de los géneros en la Nave de los Locos de Cristina Peri Rossi. Thesis. Universidad de Los Andes, 2008. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2012.