Welcome!
I am a literary and cultural studies scholar, working across the fields of Latin American and African studies. My research and teaching aim to develop trans-regional approaches to cultural expressions of the Global South, with a special focus on South-Atlantic entangled histories, decolonial epistemologies, and critical ecologies.
Since 2022, I have led the research project "Forgotten Routes across the Atlantic: Cultural Transfers between Africa and Latin America (1960-1990)", funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This study unearths overlooked archives of Cold War transcontinental encounters among key intellectuals of the 20th. Century. In my upcoming book, I chart South Atlantic’s forgotten routes crafted by artists and writers during the rise of Black Internationalism and Non-Aligned cultural diplomacy.
My previous works center around contemporary Latin American Literature and art. My first monograph, Giros topográficos: (re)escrituras del espacio en la narrativa latinoamericana del s.XXI (Potsdam UP, 2022), interrogates how current nomadic experiences of travel and hyperconnectivity generate new discursive spaces that reinterpret the meaning of community beyond territorial and national boundaries. Drawing on theories from the spatial turn, the book proposes new mobile reading frames to Latin American contemporary narrative.
In my latest publications, I reframe the production of space in Global South cultures from the perspective of ecofeminism, indigenous cosmologies, and post-human theory. I am interested in connecting artistic and critical "earthly semiotics" in a wide range of works produced since the ‘60 in Africa and Latin America. Related to this topic I have co-edited and curated, together with Azucena Castro, the online cluster “Geo-Semantics: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in the Global South” for the ASAP/J journal. Other topic-related publications include my article on “Geoescrituras de un planeta enfermo”, as well as a book chapter in the edited volume Estéticas de la tierra en América Latina.
One of the key purposes of my work is strengthening and enlarging networks of collaboration across the Global South. That is the reason why I contribute to several dissemination initiatives, such as the Abidjan and Cape Town-based networks GRELAT and Revolutionary Papers, or the Latin American online platform Humanidades Ambientales, among others. I am actively involved in the organization of the international conference "Decolonizing the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South", at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, in Paris, as well as in the SUR series , at the University of Bielefeld.
I am currently based in Berlin and affiliated with the Centre of Inter-American Studies at the University of Bielefeld, while I hold the APART-GSK Grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2022-2026). Prior to my current research position, I was Assistant Professor of Hispanic-American Cultures at the University of Innsbruck (2020 - 2022), in Austria, Adjunct Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin (2020), and Post-doctoral Fellow at the German Forum for Art History in Paris (2020).