I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, where I teach in Spanish and Comparative Literature. I’m also affiliated with the UC–CUBA Academic Initiative. I research Latin American literature, film, and society. I’ve published articles on Sergio Chejfec, Abilio Estévez, Leonardo Padura, and Theodor Adorno. My dissertation is on post-Soviet Cuban novels. Some of my other interests include Brazilian literature and crime genres like novela negra, nota roja, and film noir.

Additionally, I work as referee and editor for Brújula, an interdisciplinary journal of Latin American and cultural studies, published under the auspices of the Davis Humanities Institute.

My B.A. is from Arizona State and my M.A.T. is from Northern Arizona.