I am an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literatures and cultures, with a focus on the Hispanophone Caribbean and Brazil. My research explores the intersections of literary criticism, visual culture, and philosophy, with attention to the interplay between transatlantic slavery, Marxism, and form. I hold a B.A. from Smith College Cum laude and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, where I graduated in 2022 with a scholarly excellence award. I studied literary theory with Nobel laureates José Saramago and Gabriel García Márquez.

My current monograph-in-progress, tentatively titled The Edges of Slavery: Pre-birth and the Post-mortem in 19th-Century Cuba and Brazil, builds upon my award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the 2024 First Honorable Mention for Best Dissertation by the Caribbean Studies Association and the 2022 Princeton University Dissertation Award, along with new postdoctoral research supported by the Mellon Foundation. This manuscript expands the cultural understanding of transatlantic slavery by exploring the often-overlooked prenatal and post-mortem stages of enslaved individuals, drawing on 19th-century perspectives and canonical novels from Cuba and Brazil. Key authors include Cirilo Villaverde and Machado de Assis, with a special interest in the work of Marx. This project has been Dartmouth's institutional nominee for the 2024 NEH Summer Stipend, selected from across the Arts & Sciences, and has also been supported by the Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities.

I am also the Spanish translator and editor of Paletó e eu. Memórias de meu pai indígena, a memoir of the Wari' people by Brazilian anthropologist Aparecida Vilaça, winner of the 2020 Casa de las Américas Prize for Brazilian Literature. Additionally, I curated and edited the exhibition Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

My research has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program, the Cuban Heritage Collection, Princeton University Dean of the Graduate School, and Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities. I was a Fellow at the Cuban Heritage Collection, a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the University of São Paulo Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Literature, a Lassen Graduate Fellow in the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies (by nomination), and a Graduate Affiliate in the Princeton Program in European Cultural Studies (by nomination).

In 2023, I was invited to serve as a juror for the 63rd Casa de las Américas Literary Prize in Cuba, an award that has recognized major contributions to Latin American literature since 1960.

Alongside my proficiency in Spanish, and Portuguese, I have recently embarked on studying French.