About
I am a doctoral candidate in Spanish and a graduate certificate student in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. My research is primarily in Latin American cultural studies. My work lies at the intersection of settler colonial studies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, Indigenous studies, and political theory. Currently, my dissertation research project examines the sexual politics of settler colonialism in the Southern Cone and its borderlands, focusing on 19th-century literary and visual cultures.
My dissertation reflects on an extensive archival corpus of discourses and images that I call “scenes of captivity.” These scenes intricately weave together narratives of captive white women, Indigenous raids, and the state’s expanding frontiers. By examining three pivotal moments in the colonial and national formation of settler colonial states in the Southern Cone and its borderlands, I reveal how the repetition and challenge of these scenes of captivity, even to this day, serve as a spectacle, perpetuate colonial fantasies, and inform how we think about liberation in settler colonial contexts.
Before coming to the University of Michigan, I studied Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, where I completed my BA thesis in political and historical anthropology, with a focus on the 19th-century Buenos Aires borderlands and contemporary Mapuche territorial struggles.
My most recent article, "Seeing the Body-Territory: Nature, Technology, and Accumulation in Latin American Feminisms" is forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. I have also published in the journals Diálogo Andino, Memoria Americana, and TEFROS. My public writing has been featured in NACLA Report on the Americas. You can find my publications in my Academia.edu page linked above.
