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 from the Global South, with a special focus on South-Atlantic entangled histories, decolonial epistemologies, and critical ecologies.
Since 2022, I lead 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 work centers on contemporary Latin American literature and art. Giros topográficos: (re)escrituras del espacio en la narrativa latinoamericana del s.XXI (Potsdam UP, 2022), my first monograph, explores how contemporary nomadic experiences of travel and hyperconnectivity generate new discursive spaces that reinterpret the meaning of community beyond territorial and national boundaries. Drawing on spatial turn theories, the book proposes new mobile reading frameworks for contemporary Latin American narrative.
In my recent publications, I reframe the production of space in Global South cultures through the lenses of ecofeminism, indigenous cosmologies, and post-human theory. I am particularly interested in connecting artistic and critical "earthly semiotics" across a wide range of works produced since the 1960s in Africa and Latin America. Related to this topic, I have co-edited and curated, alongside 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 main motivations behind my work is to strengthen and expand collaborative networks across the Global South. For that purpose I actively contribute to several dissemination initiatives, including the Abidjan and Cape Town-based networks GRELAT and Revolutionary Papers, as well as the Latin American online platform Humanidades Ambientales, among others. In 2024, I co-convened the international conference "Decolonizing the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South" and the SUR Series at the University of Bielefeld.
During the spring term of 2025, I am appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. Prior to my current research position, I served as 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 Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Forum for Art History in Paris (2020).