About Me
I am a Senior Lector and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Born in Guatemala and raised in Los Angeles after my family fled the violence stemming from Cold War politics in Guatemala.
I earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Cornell University. My research specializes in Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American literature, history, and culture, focusing on early modern theories of war, state violence, gender, and surveillance. I have published articles on these subjects in prominent journals such as the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and Bulletin of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. My current work on contemporary issues in Latin America, which I view as ongoing colonial processes, draws on my knowledge of colonial Latin America and early modern Spain.