Education

Research Interests

• Grassroots cultural production in 20th and 21st century Latin America
• Theory, practice and aesthetics of resistance
• Cultural responses to the Colombian conflict
• Artivism, radical publishing and participatory media

Journal Articles

• “Desplazamientos entretejidos: la memoria afro-diaspórica como respuesta al imaginario transicional en los Tejidos de Mampuján,” Revista de Estudios Colombianos 53, enero-junio 2019.

Other Publications

• “A Toolkit […?] the Public Domain,” Scholars’ Lab Blog, 28 September 2018. https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/a-toolkit-the-public-domain/
• "Privatized Military Industry." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. August 17, 2017. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/key-issues/privatized-military-industry
• "Network Power." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with the Global South. August 17, 2017. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/key-concepts/network-power
• “What’s really behind the energy crisis in Colombia?” Barranquilla Life, 18 April 2016. https://tinyurl.com/ydeswdgj
• “The Post-Conflict in Barranquilla: Progress and Challenges.” Barranquilla Life, 04 April 2016. https://tinyurl.com/y9jac47a
• “What’s Being Done: Literacy Initiatives around the World.” Catalyst Magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2012. https://tinyurl.com/yazvwxsg

Teaching

University of Virginia

• SPAN 3300, Texts and Interpretations (Fall 2019)
• SPAN 3010, Advanced Grammar and Composition (Spring 2019)
• SPAN 2020, Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

Universidad del Atlántico (Barranquilla, Colombia)

• English Levels 1, 2 and 5 (Semesters I and II 2015-16)
• Advanced English Conversation (Semester I 2015)

Presentations

• “Jungles and the Colombian Conflict,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference, June 27, 2019
• “Una opción sutil de Protestar: Archive, affect and Library Activism in the Revista Literaria del Putumayo,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, May 25, 2019
• “Praxis Program Roundtable,” Decolonizing the Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Virginia, April 5-6, 2019. http://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/decolonizing-digital-humanities-indigenous-arts-histories-and-knowledges-material-screen-0
• “Weaving Networks of Dissent: Displacement, Justice and Afro-diasporic Memory in the Community Quilts of Mampuján.” UVA Global South Studies Symposium, March 29-30, 2019. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/global-south-studies-symposium-workshop
•  “Minimal Computing Workshop,” UVA Scholars’ Lab, March 5, 2019.

Grants & Awards

• IHGC Public Humanities Lab (University of Virginia, 2019-2020)
• Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation Grant (University of Virginia, Fall 2018)
• Praxis Fellowship (UVA Scholars’ Lab 2018-19)
• Charles Gordon Reid Summer Fellowship (UVA Spanish Department, Summer 2018)
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute Grant (University of Victoria, Summer 2018)
• Fulbright Colombia Scholarship (2015-2016)
• Jefferson Fellowship (Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 2015-2021)
• International Rescue Committee Outstanding Service Award (April 2015).