I am an assistant professor of Latin American cultural studies at Texas Tech University with research and teaching interests in Indigenous studies, visual culture, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies. 

My current book manuscript, Plantation Counterlives: Media, Monocultures and Dissident Ecologies in Colombia, examines how activist media have contributed to Black, Indigenous and mestizo struggles against monocrop agribusiness in 21st-century Colombia. Focusing on visions of autonomy in landscapes dominated by sugarcane, oil palm, coca and coffee, this study treats monocultures as not only commercial products, but cultural ones that enable us to think about histories of food production and environmental degradation as much as the vegetal underpinnings of neoliberalism, its antecedents, and its afterlives. This book weaves together voices of activist media practitioners whose writings, videos and visual art contest hegemonic scripts of the “war on terror,” the “war on drugs” and the “post-conflict” by casting monocultures as agents of a “war against life” that exceeds these terms. Through an entangled methodology situated in the web of relations between humans, plants, animals, water, soil and the built environment, Plantation Counterlives highlights efforts to uproot monocultures of the land, the mind and the heart that resonate across the Plantation Americas, from the US South to the Southern Cone. This project has been supported by the Humanities Center through the Alumni College Fellowship (2024) and the Spring Faculty Fellow program (2025).

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I have published/forthcoming articles, interviews and book chapters in Interventions, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Visitas al Patio, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Romance Notes, Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, Revista de Estudios Colombianos, Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900 (U. of Oklahoma Press) and Water on the Llano Estacado (Texas Tech U. Press). My other ongoing projects investigate New Right film, television and online media; counter-mediations of capitalism and colonialism in queer experimental cinema; and critical conversations between Indigenous, Afro-diasporan and queer/trans/travesti knowledges. 

Examples of courses I have taught include the graduate seminars "Critical Conversations between Queer and Indigenous Studies," "Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Políticas de la Vida" and "Cultural Studies Beyond the Human: Perspectives from the Plantation Américas," as well as the undergraduate courses "Human Rights in Latin America," "Indigenous Literatures, Oralities, Visualities," and "Plantation Américas." During academic years 2023-2025, I am contributing to the development of Texas Tech's Indigenous and Native American Studies (INAS) program as an Expanding the Circle: Indigenous and Native American Studies faculty fellow.

I am also a collaborator on the creative project Corrido Vibrante/Vibrant Currents (with Jorge Hernández Camacho and Criseida Santos-Guevara), a series of audiovisual, poetic and photographic interventions on water and extractivism in the Llano Estacado.