Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

I was appointed Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Galway in 2024. I received my BA from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2012, my MPhil (with distinction) from the University of Oxford in 2005, and my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018. After teaching as a lecturer in Spanish at Oxford (2017-2019), I held a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of the Chilean avant-garde poet and academic Dr Felipe Cussen at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (2020-2021). In 2022, I took up a position as an Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (AVH) postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Jenny Haase at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. 

At the center of my research is Latin American 20th- and 21st-century experimental poetry, as well as its relationship to trends in global avant-garde and conceptual writing. In particular, I analyze the experimental poetry and poetics of the 'Global South' and the Western Hemisphere and their links to other poetries from around the world. Just as experimental poetry invites the reader to participate actively in making semantic and sensorial meaning, I am in my teaching to facilitate, not dictate, the questioning capacities of students as they explore new paths of understanding.