Scholarship and Biography

Research interests include critical and post-colonial theory, modernism and modernity, visual art and performance, human rights and legal topics in the arts, environmental issues.

Courses taught on Sexual dissidence in Latin America; Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies; Literature, Film and Human Rights; Storyteller: Short Stories from Latin America; Culture and Social Change; Latin American Global Film; New Latin American Film from Revolution to the Market; Senior capstone writing seminar, among others.


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Honors

Senior Faculty Research Semester - Spring 2026
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 11/2024
Andrew Mellon workshop "Past and Future Genders". Invited participant
American Academy in Berlin (Germany, Berlin), June 2022
Book prize of Southern Cone section of the Latin American Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association (United States, Pittsburgh) - LASA, 2018
Norman Fund for Faculty Research
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
Morse Fellowship
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 2005-2006
SIAS-National Humanities Center Fellow
National Humanities Center (United States, Durham) - NHC, 2005 and 2006
Hillel Publication Fund
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 2005
Faculty Curriculum Improvement and Innovations Development Grant
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 2005
Whitney Humanities Center Fellow
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 2004-2005
Development Award
SUNY Broome Community College (United States, Binghamton), 2002
Fellow - Institute "The Invisible Giant"
The Ohio State University (United States, Columbus) - OSU, 2001
Travel Grant - Latin American Studies
Johns Hopkins University (United States, Baltimore) - JHU, 2000
Circle for Research in the Humanities and Literatures Fellow
Johns Hopkins University (United States, Baltimore) - JHU, 1999
Migration and Exile Summer Institute Fellow
Boston University (United States, Boston) - BU, 1998

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in International and Global Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature and Culture, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Film, Television and Interactive Media, Brandeis University

Past Affiliations

Yale University (United States, New Haven)

Education

Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
M.A.
University of Maryland, College Park
M.A.
Universidad de Buenos Aires
B.A.