My research and teaching focus on colonialism in Latin America, past and present. Currently, my work studies how colonial legacies have shaped modern and contemporary cultural institutions and practices.
A forthcoming book in Notre Dame University Press, titled Precarious Narratives: The Picaresque and The Writing Life in Mexico, 1690-2013, studies the emergence and development of the Mexican literary field through the lens of the picaresque. The book contends that Mexican writers invoke this literary form to ponder on what they regard as the perils of intellectual labor in Mexico, thus turning the picaresque into a reflection on the place that literature and writers have borne within Mexican society throughout history.
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America; Mexican literature and culture; Cultural Theory; Intellectual History; Poetics