Resume
Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, Cornell University, 2027 (expected).
M.A., Hispanic Studies with Graduate Minors in LGBT Studies and Media Studies, Cornell University, 2025.
M.A., Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs with a Concentration in Ethics and Public Affairs with a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies George Mason University, 2021.
Research Interests
Art Criticism, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Humanities, Domestic Culture, Continental Philosophy, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Culture, Latina/o/x Studies, Literary Theories, Media Studies, Minoritarian Aesthetics, Nightlife Cultures and Communities, Performance Studies, Semiotics, Sound Studies, and Venezuelan Studies.
Awards & Fellowships
Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grant, 2025.
The Cornell Graduate School Research Travel Grant, 2025.
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize at Cornell University, 2025.
The Lourdes Benería Award in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Cornell University, 2023.
Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Cornell University, 2023.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Fellow Program at Cornell University, 2023-2024.
The HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program, cosponsored by the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, 2022-2024.
Dean’s Scholar for the Graduate School Diversity Fellowship at Cornell University, 2022.
Mitchell Program’s U.S. Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Fellowship at George Mason University, 2022.
Campus Election Engagement Project Fellowship (CEEP), 2020-2021.
The Dean’s 2020 Challenge Award at George Mason University, 2020.
The Critical Language Scholarship in Indonesia, 2019.
The Boren Awards, Graduate Fellowship in Indonesia, 2018-2019.
Publications
“Tambor y Caña: A Sonic Aesthetic Movement in the Venespora.” Intervenxions, The Latinx Project at New York University, 9 April 2024, with a print publication released on September 21, 2024.
“Book Review: Victoria Ruétalo's Violated Frames (2022),” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, May 2023, R30-R32.
Professional affiliations
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP).
Latina/o Studies Association (LSA).
Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Modern Language Association (MLA).
Selected conferences, Invited Talks, and Panels
Co-organizer, “Catastrophe Across the Venezuelan Diaspora,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, 22-25 October 2025.
“Una isla como dominio utópica cuir en Todas las Lunas,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA, 23-26 May 2025.
“On the Challenges and Possibilities of a Living Archive” for “Archives in Transit: Todosomos and the Venezuelan Migration Crisis,” the Todosomos Archive Launch at Cornell University, 18 April 2025.
“La Rumba Remains: Queering Venezuela through Lexi Parra’s Nightlife Photography,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 14 June 2024.
“Abstract Environments in Dual Displacement: The Work of Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe,” The American Literature Association (ACLA) at Palais des congrès de Montréal, 17 March 2024.
Co-organizer with 2023-2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Fellows, “Resiliencia desde América Latina y el Caribe: Crisis, Resistance, and Adaptation,” LACS Research Symposium, Cornell University, 16-17 February 2024.
“The Venesporan Artists Project,” The Caribbean Digital (TCD) X Conference at Yale University, 6 December 2023.
Teaching experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record for SPAN1230: Continuing Spanish at Cornell University, 2024-2025.
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record for SPAN1220: Elementary Spanish II at Cornell University, Spring 2024.
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record for SPAN1210: Elementary Spanish I at Cornell University, Fall 2023.
Graduate Teaching Assistant for PHIL 253: Philosophy and Literature with Professor Wayne Froman at George Mason University, 2020-2021.