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 book manuscript, Vital Forms: Communal Media and the War Against Life in Colombia, examines how Indigenous, Afro-descendant and mestizo artist-activists have challenged dominant narratives of violence in Colombia by framing the country's territorial conflicts as struggles over the social reproduction of life. Focusing on videos, writings and visual art produced through various modes of communal collaboration, this book highlights the role of activist media in disrupting neoliberal and right-wing grammars of "defending life" to imagine forms of life-in-common beyond capitalism.

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My other long-term projects investigate plantation economies and architectures of separation in Latin American cultural production; post-pornography; and Indigenous genealogies of queer and transfeminist thought. My articles and interviews have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Interventions, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Romance Notes, Revista de Estudios Colombianos, and Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades. 

Examples of courses I have taught include the graduate seminars "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.