I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis. My dissertation explores the relationship between the post-Soviet Cuban novel and the social context in which it is embedded, illustrating the connections between aesthetic form and historically specific social forms.

I have published articles on Latin American fiction, including works by Sergio Chejfec and Leonardo Padura. I also study Critical Theory, especially the work of the Frankfurt School and more contemporary German theorists associated with the Wertkritik tendency.

I work as an editor for Brújula, an interdisciplinary journal of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at UC Davis.

I received my bachelor’s degree from Arizona State and my master’s from Northern Arizona.