About
I am a PhD Candidate in Spanish working on Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies. Specifically, I specialize in Cuba and Latinx Studies. My dissertation titled Dissent and Commonality in Cuban and Cuban-American Theater (1970 -2020) investigates the emancipatory dimension of theater and performance through plays staged in Havana, New York, and Miami from the 1970s to the present. My work focuses on alternative ways of being-together that challenge ideas of unity across Cuban and Latinx pan-racial discourses. I work with sound studies, political philosophy, gender Studies and dance studies to address the complexity of the theatrical performances. Other research and teaching interest convey the Hispanic Caribbean, México and Perú. Regarding teaching, I am focused on simulation-based learning techniques, anti-racist pedagogies, and universal learning design.
EDUCATION
2015 M.A. in Hispanic Literatures. Washington University in Saint Louis.
2011 Máster en Estudios Literarios (M.A. in Comparative Literature). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
2010 Licenciatura en Literatura (B.A. in Literature). Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México.
2008 Academic Exchange Student at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
2020 Graduate Teacher Certificate. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT).
2020 Rackham Diversity Inclusion and Equity Certificate. Rackham Graduate School. Concentration area: Teaching.
2019 Graduate Certificate Program in Latina/o Studies. Department of American Culture.
PUBLICATIONS - ORCID: 0000-0002-3490-5153
Article: “Prácticas trans y herencia revolucionaria en el teatro de Rogelio Orizondo.” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, vol. 35, no. 2, 2020, pp. 109-122.
Book chapter: “La función transgresiva del erotismo en El color del verano o nuevo ‘jardín de las delicias’ de Reinaldo Arenas,” in El erotismo en la modernidad, edited by Ángel Clemente and Javier Rivero Grandoso. Compañía Española de Reprografía y Servicios (Cersa). Madrid, 2012, pp. 257-69. ISBN: 978-84-15341-50-5
Performance Review: “Entre nosotr@s todo va bien” Latin American Theatre Review. Fall 2019, pp147-148.
Enciclopedia Entries “Havana Suite”, “Parting of the Ways”, “Madagascar” and “El viajero inmóvil” in A Cuban Cinema Companion, edited by Amanda McMenamin, Salvador Jiménez Muguía and Sean O’Reilly. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019
RECENT COURSES
“Latinoamérica a través de su naturaleza”. Winter 2021. Designed for: “Spanish 280: Conversation in Spanish Through film."
“Transgresiones en el teatro y la literatura del Caribe Hispano”. Winter 2020. Designed for: “Spanish 296: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures”
“Geographies of Migration: Latinx Here and There” Fall 2018, Winter 2019. Designed for: “Spanish 280: Conversation in Spanish Through film.”
