New Cabell Hall 462

No office hours Fall 24

Education

PhD. in Spanish (expected 2026), University of Virginia

B.A. Spanish (Letras), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (2020)

Dissertation Project

Discourses and senses of mobility are ubiquitous in our current age. From airlines’ advertisement to health advises, mobility is coded as dynamic, enhancing, and positive. But, there are also discourses againts mobility, such as discourses which criminalize migrants. As a scholar of the Early Modern world, I explore how notions of mobility impacted the literary production of writers from the first global empire ever: Spain. I seek to explore authors such as Garcilaso de la Vega and Miguel de Cervantes under a mobilities studies perspective, taking into account how human displacement, as well as non-human mobilities, are present in their work, and interact with their creative production. As soldiers and officials of the Spanish Empire, Garcilaso and Cervantes were people on the move themselves—I would like to demonstrate that constellations of mobilities laid at the heart of their creative work.

Courses taught

—SPANISH 3010 (Grammar and Composition I). Spring 2024

—SPANISH 3010 (Grammar and Composition I). Fall 2023

—SPANISH 2020 (Advanced Intermediate). Spring 2023

—SPANISH 1060 (Accelerated Elementary Spanish). Fall 2022

—SPANISH 2020 (Advanced Intermediate). Summer 2022

— SPANISH 2010 (Intermediate). Spring 2022

— SPANISH 2010 (Intermediate). Fall 2021

Research Interests

Early Modern Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies

Spanish Golden Age

Mobilities Humanities and Literary Studies

Presentations

“‹‹Corriendo va tras vos mi fantasía››: Movement and Fragments of the Self in Boscán’s Poetry”, Renaissance Society of America, 71st Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20-22, 2025 (forthcoming).

“La Égloga II de Garcilaso y las movilidades de la temprana modernidad”. The Poetic Function, Past and Present:Versions and Inversions of Golden Age Poetry. Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBHP), University of Illinois, Chicago, September 27 – September 29, 2023

“El monstruo de la globalización: cuerpo y globalidad en las Américas en el Entremés de Cristóbal de Llerena”. The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS).  Toronto, Canada, August, 2022

Professional Memberships

Renaissance Society of America

Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry

Cervantes Society of America

Society for Early Transpacific Studies

Public Scholarship

“Pedro Henríquez Ureña: la respuesta democrática”, Acento (Dominican Republic), 26 Jun 2021