Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)
M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2022
Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
M.A., Creative Writing, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016
B.S., Psychology, Carlos Albizu University, 2015
A.S., Social Sciences, Essex County College, 2013

Research Interests

• 20th-21st Century Caribbean and Latinx Arts and Literatures
• Feminist Cartographies and Cultural Geography
• Visual Culture and Performance Studies
• Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity Studies

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol 24, no. 2 (forthcoming, Fall 2025). 

Presentations

Panels Organized

• Chair and Organizer, “Transnational Feminisms in the Contemporary Américas,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. January 2023

Papers Presented

• “Stillness as Feminist Praxis: Quotidian Fugitivity in the Work of Myrna Báez and Mónica Hernández,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/14), Seattle, Washington State. October 2023.
• “The Artist as Mapmaker: Feminist Cartographies in Contemporary Caribbean Art,” Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, San José and Limón, Costa Rica. June 2023.
• “Curating Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Born in Flames: Feminist Futures,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. January 2023.
• “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2022.
• “The Power of Images: Learning Culture with Visual Texts in the Contemporary L2 Classroom,” Institute of World Languages Roundtable Series. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. November 2021.

Teaching

SPAN 3020 – Advanced Grammar and Composition II: Fall 2023

SPAN 3010 – Advanced Grammar and Composition I: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

SPAN 2010 – Intermediate Spanish: Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Professional Development

Participant – PhD+ Writing Op-Eds Workshop Series. University of Virginia, June-August 2023.

Participant – PhD+ Graduate Instructor Seminar on the Teaching of Writing. University of Virginia, August 1-4, 2022.

Service

GSAS Student Council Representative – Academic year 2022-2023

SIP Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee – Academic Years 2021-2023

“Why Graduate Education Matters” – UVA Graduate School of Arts and Sciences fundraising initiative, spearheaded by Dean China Scherz, Fall 2022

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Charles Gordon Reid Summer Travel Fellowship, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Summer 2023.
• Del Greco Annual Essay Prize for “Alternative Cartographies: Remapping Landscape, Women and History in the Work of Edwidge Danticat,” Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. May 2021.
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts and Cultures, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Dean’s Diversity Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia. Fall 2020-present.
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Virginia, Fall 2020.
• Master’s Final Project Distinction of Excellence, Pompeu Fabra University, 2016.
• Distinguished Student Medal, Carlos Albizu University, 2015.
• Dominican Heritage Student Grant, Carlos Albizu University, 2014.