New Cabell Hal 434

Office Hours: Monday / Wednesday 9:45-10:45AM 

Education

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2024

M.A. University of Virginia, 2019

B.A. Virginia Tech, 2016

Recent Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Associate & Lecturer in the Engagements, UVA, 2024-2025

Jefferson Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 2023-2025

Research Interests

20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literary & Cultural Studies

Race & Ethnicity Studies

Environmental Humanities

Film Studies

Teaching

University of Virginia, 2017-2025

Instructor of Record

EGMT 1530: Engaging Differences (What Makes a Drug?)

SPAN 4040: Translation from Spanish to English

SPAN 2020: Advanced Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 2010: Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 1060: Accelerated Elementary Spanish

Public Scholarship

“1940s Mexico Has a Lesson for How the U.S. Can Tackle Drug Addiction.” The

Washington Post. June 20, 2023.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Las promesas y los peligros de la ayahuasca en el ecocine sobre la Amazonía.” Otras iluminaciones: Narraciones y cultura a la luz de los psicodélicos, eds. Alberto Ribas-Casasayas, Ana Luengo. Almenara Press, 2025, pp. 175-98.

“The On- and Offstage Politics of Marijuana in Mexico: Doña Juanita: Principio de sainete por un transeúnte del siglo veinte.” Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 58, no. 1, 2024, pp. 21-36.

“Indigenising Colombia’s Marijuana Boom: Race and Settler Colonialism in Pájaros de verano.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2023, pp. 39-56.

“Unmasking the Narco: Irony in Juan Pablo Villalobos’ Fiesta en la madriguera.” Revista de literatura mexicana contemporánea, vol. 25, no.78, 2019, pp. 77-90.