Department Member, Romance Languages and Literatures
Tulane University, Spanish and Portuguese
About
I am a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University in New Orleans. My area of expertise is Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture with specialization in Caribbean Studies , Mexican Studies, and Latino Studies that I approach theoretically largely from the perspectives of Cultural Studies, Border Studies and Postcolonial Theory. In my dissertation entitled Frontera sur: Tropicalismo, nacionalismo y mayanización en la (Pen)ínsula de Yucatán, I focus on different aspects of the contemporary cultural and literary production of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico framed by border theory, and incorporating interdisciplinary approaches from the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Tourism Studies, Border Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Music, and Cartography.
