I earned my PhD in Hispanic Studies and graduate certificate in Social Theory from the University of Kentucky in 2022. Prior to coming to Ohio State, I taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Penn State. I have taught classes on basic Spanish language skills, conversation, history, advanced grammar, film, literature, and feminist theory, applying a content-based method that prioritizes critical thinking and creativity. I also have co-directed a study abroad program in Puebla, Mexico. 

My research concerns contemporary literature and film and is undertaken from a posthumanist-feminist perspective. I have published an article in which I read Rosa Montero's (Spain) android-centric science fiction as a corrective to elements of Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto that have been critiqued by feminist and disability scholars (Romance Notes, 2022). I also have an article forthcoming in which I further engage with Haraway, this time anchoring my perspective in the work of Argentine feminist philosopher María Lugones and Rita Indiana's (Dominican Republic) science fiction (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, forthcoming). 

More recently, I have expanded a book chapter I co-authored about dogs and friendship (forthcoming in Aproximaciones a la amistad en el cine español contemporáneo [2000-2022]) into a book project about the representation of the Iberian wolf in the Spanish rural and neo-rural novel. I am investigating how such representations relate to historical events and economic practices in the 20th and 21st century that have emptied the Spanish countryside and complicated vital conservation efforts.