About

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Augsburg, specialized in Latin American, Latina/o, Brazilian and Iberian Literatures, Cultural Studies and Film. The literatures I investigate in the United Stated (and beyond) are mostly written in Spanish and Portuguese. I am also most interested in indigenous notions and texts. Since 2007, I have been especially working on US Latina/o Literatures, Luso-American Literature (Adriana Lisboa) and Chicana Theory (Norma Alarcón, Chela Sandoval, Norma Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Lourdes Portillo, etc.) which I have been both investigating and applying in my research as frame of reference on an international scale. I have been presenting in the El Mundo Zurdo Conference in San Antonio since 2009 (a conference organized to honor the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa), and have been a member of the organizing committee since 2015.

Here is my reading on Anzaldúa’s 2015 (posthumous) book “Light in the Dark”, published in August 2016 in Women’s Review of Books:

https://www.wcwonline.org/Women-s-Review-of-Books-Mar/Apr-2016/conocimiento-lunar-lunar-knowledge

In Europe, I am member of the ISLA (Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula) at the University of Augsburg, Germany, member of the AKA (Cultural Analysis Study Group) at the University of Vienna, and member of the ACE Traductores (Literary Translators of Spain). In the latter one, I have been recently translating Harold Pinter and John Barth from English to Spanish for the Spanish Edition of GRANTA (Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona) in the Casa del Traductor/Tarazona collective.  Please read my text about this recent experience:

https://actividadesacetraductores.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/cronica-de-los-talleres-de-traduccion-literaria-y-proceso-editorial-en-la-casa-del-traductor/