I am an Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at Texas Tech University. My interdisciplinary research and teaching draw on media studies, political theory and cultural history to shed light on 20th- and 21st-century social thought in the Americas, especially in relation to questions of land, embodiment and the sacred. 
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My most recent article, "Weapons of Mass Instruction: Eduardo Verástegui, Sound of Freedom (2023) and the New Right in Mexico," is part of a larger project examining far-right cultural production across the Americas in the digital age. I also write regularly about Indigenous and environmental movements, religion, conservatism, reactionary thought, and the literatures of Colombia, Central America and the Southern Cone. 

​Based in West Texas, I am involved in a number of place-based projects concerned with the cultural landscapes of cattle, oil and cotton on the Llano Estacado, and which seek to document the historical presence and erasure of Hispanic and Indigenous communities in this region.