Associate Professor of Romance Languages
My research focuses primarily on the relationship between economics and literary form nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. My first book, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age (Minnesota, 2013), studied how literature imagined the incorporation of the region's economies into world commodity markets at the end of the nineteenth century. My current book project, tentatively titled "Agrarian Questions: Latin American Literature in the Age of Development," examines how twentieth-century literary fiction registered capitalist transitions in the countryside.