Academic career
– since 2023: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Fordham University (Associate Professor 2018-2023, Assistant Professor 2012-2018)
– 2022-2024: Chair, Department of Languages and Cultures, Fordham University
– 2012: PhD, Princeton University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
– 2005-2007: Translator, Government of the Republic of Chile
– 2002: AB, Occidental College
Research interests
– Latin American cultural studies (modern and contemporary)
– Cinema and visual studies
– Gender and sexuality studies
Publications
– Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. (Translated into Spanish by Camila Matta as Locas excepciones: La via chilena a la disidencia sexual. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2024)
– Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World. Co-edited with Vania Barraza. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020.
– “Feminist Re-Mappings of Colonia Dignidad as Antifascist Praxis.” In Dismantling the Nation: Notes on Contemporary Art and Culture in Chile. Ed. Carla Macchiavello Cornejo, Florencia San Martín, and Paula Solimano. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2023: 57-74.
– “Sexual/Textual Migrations: Queer of Color Theory in Chile.” Confluenze: Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani 14.2 (2022): 272-293.
– “Fascism on Ice: Miguel Serrano in Chilean Antarctica.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 54.2 (June 2020): 505-32.