Publications + C.V.
Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, Texas Tech University
Women and Gender Studies affiliate faculty
Expanding the Circle Indigenous and Native American Studies faculty fellow
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2022. Dissertation: Life Politics: Race, Ecology and Dissident Aesthetics in Colombia, supported by the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“En la palabra ‘naturaleza’ nace el conflicto: Reflexiones para desalambrar, desgorgojear y sanar el corazón.” (co-authored as part of Minga de Comunicación), forthcoming in Visitas al Patio.
“‘Mother Earth Liberating Herself’: Indigenous Mobilizations, Planetary Relations and Transcorporeal Solidarities in Cauca, Colombia”, forthcoming in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
“The Llaneros, Bison, and Animal Domestication” (co-authored with John Beusterien), forthcoming in Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900, ed. Joel Zapata, Alex Hunt, John Beusterien and Andrew Reynolds. Under contract at University of Oklahoma Press.
“Un witral de hebras heridas: tejiendo miradas solidarias en Piñen de Daniela Catrileo”, forthcoming in Romance Notes 64.1.
“Curating and Curando through Hybrid Connections: The Case of Colombia Syllabus/Primera Línea Académica” (co-authored with Eduard Arriaga, Bibiana Fuentes, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo and David Hurtado), accepted in US Colombianx Studies, ed. Ariana Ochoa Camacho, María Elena Cepeda, Jennifer Harford Vargas and Johana Londoño. Volume under consideration at Duke University Press.
“Suturing or Puncturing the Social Fabric? Afro-Caribbean Textile Art and the Limits of Repair,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 4, 2022.
“‘Una opción sutil de protestar:’ Literary Magazines, Subterranean Resistance and Life Politics in Putumayo, Colombia,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30, no. 3, 2021.
"Desplazamientos entretejidos: imaginarios transicionales y la diasporización de la memoria en los Tejidos de Mampuján," Revista de Estudios Colombianos 53, enero-junio 2019.
Other Publications
“Corrido Vibrante/Vibrant Currents: Visual Poetry on the Llano Estacado,” co-authored with Jorge Hernández Camacho and Criseida Santos-Guevara, forthcoming in Water on the Llano Estacado (ed. Britta Anderson and John Beusterien), Texas Tech University Press.
“Detonando miradas: una conversación con Amber Bemak y Nadia Granados” (Interview). Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades.
(Review) Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo and Kevin G. Guerrieri (eds.). 2022. Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Culture: Embodied Enactments. Ciberletras 48, no. 48, 2023.
(Review) Woods, Maxwell. 2022. On the Chilean Social Explosion. A Contracorriente 20, no. 2, 2023.
(Review) Paschel, Tianna. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Fall 2018.
"Network Power." Critical definition published in Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with the Global South. 17 August 2017.
"Private Military Industry." Critical definition published in Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with the Global South. 17 August 2017.
Presentations
Panels Organized
“Queer/Trans/Feminist Fronteras,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 11, 2025.
“Somos porque otros seres son: perspectivas ambientales sobre violencias, disidencias y re-existencias en Colombia," Latin American Studies Association Congress, June 2024. Bogotá.
“Rethinking Violence in Latin America: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Life Politics,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 8, 2021 (Presider/Organizer).
"Imagining 'Post-Conflict' Colombia," UVA Symposium on Art and Confrontation in the Americas, September 2019 (Organizer).
"Libros en Lugar de Armas/Books Instead of Guns: Libraries as Sites for Peace in Colombia," Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), June 2019 (Co-organized with Miguel Valladares-Llata).
"The Pen and the Dove: Narratives and Post-Conflict Imaginaries in Colombia," Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress, May 2019 (Co-organized with Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo).
Papers Presented
“Spectral Intimacies in Amber Bemak and Nadia Granados’s US-Colombia Borderlands,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 11, 2025.
“Sabotage and Reassemble: Black and Indigenous Counter-Plantations in Cauca, Colombia,” Global Indigenous Studies Network Inaugural Conference, Indiana University, November 2024.
“Hacia una política de la vida: Necroecologías y formas vitales en la lucha del pueblo Nasa contra la agroindustria cañera,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, June 2024.
“Flesh of Territory/Territory of Flesh,” panel on Transfeminist Bondings with Black and Indigenous Knowledges, Modern Languages Association Convention, January 2024. Philadelphia.
“Entre la desnudez y la descolonización: corporalidades indígenas y pospornografía en el Cono Sur.” Intersecciones, Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), October 2023. Querétaro, Mexico
“Perfomando una solidaridad transcorpórea: ecologías disidentes, deseantes y travestis en Abya Yala,” Futuridades Feministas, Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), December 2022. Valparaíso, Chile.
“'Tearing Down the Monument of Sugarcane:' Indigenous Ecofeminisms and the Liberation of Mother Earth," seminar on Feminism/Memory/Activism: Forging Transnational Solidarities, American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, June 2022.
“‘Para Desalambrar la Madre Tierra hay que Desalambrar el Corazón:’ Liberating Mother Earth as Life Politics in Cauca, Colombia,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 8, 2021.
"Jungles and the Colombian Conflict," Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference, June 2019.
"'Una opción sutil de protestar: Archive, affect and library activism in the Revista Literaria del Putumayo," Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congreess, May 2019.
Teaching
Graduate Seminars
Critical Conversations between Queer and Indigenous Studies (SPAN 5356/WGS). Texas Tech University, Spring 2025.
Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Políticas de la vida (SPAN 5356). Texas Tech University, Spring 2024.
Cultural Studies Beyond the Human: Perspectives from the Plantation Américas (SPAN 5355). Texas Tech University, Spring 2023.
Undergraduate Courses
Human Rights in Latin America (SPAN 3306). Texas Tech University, Fall 2024.
Indigenous Literatures, Oralities, Visualities (SPAN 4337). Texas Tech University, Summer II 2024.
Plantation Américas: Race, Labor and Environment (SPAN 4337). Texas Tech University, Spring 2024.
Picturing Pachakuti: Visual Culture and Social Change in the Indigenous Americas (SPAN 3600). Texas Tech University, Fall 2023.
Social Change in the Hispanic World Through Film, Literature, Art and Music (SPAN 2300). Texas Tech University, Fall 2022.
Advanced Spanish Grammar (SPAN 4350). Texas Tech University, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023.
Guest Teaching
“El cine indígena: autonomía, colaboración y soberanía visual,” Center for the Liberal Arts Workshop for Spanish Teachers, April 2022.
“El Sur Global: historia, métodos y conceptos," Center for the Liberal Arts Workshop for Spanish Teachers, November 2021.
“Comics and Participatory Action Research," Community Engagement in Spanish-Speaking Charlottesville, University of Virginia. Spring 2021.
“La obra del Padre Alcides Jiménez Chicangana en la Amazonía colombiana,” Literatures of the Latin American Jungle, University of Virginia, Fall 2020.
“Respuestas a la globalización neoliberal desde el Pacífico colombiano: el caso de CAVIDA,” Afro-Latinidad Across the Americas, University of Virginia, Fall 2019.