I research the intersections between history, literature, and visual arts in order to understand the concept of “desaparecido” as represented in Latin American cultural artifacts from the seventies and the present-day. The project involves analyzing the transformation of the concept … Read more

I’m taking a break from my book project this semester to work on an article-length project about the horses that appear as human companions and as characters in their own right in Renaissance epic poetry, starting from the most famous … Read more

I am working in a project about female artists/authors from Latin America: Catalina Bu, Power Paola, Sole Otero, and María Luque. The first stage is to establish the difference between comics, comics-books and graphic novels. The latter display specific features … Read more

I am beginning to work on creating a bilingual Italian-English digital environment to document and revitalize Rusitène, an indigenous language from Southern Italy, classified as vulnerable by UNESCO. This digital environment will consist of (1) language data in the form … Read more

My research revolves around the representation of Asian communities in Latin American cultural productions such as literature and films. Currently, I am working on two projects. The first one is an article-length project that deals with the semi-authentic film portrayals … Read more

The French word bruit (noise) is a common a metaphor indicating rumor, “buzz,” “the news of the time”—what people are talking about in society. In my current book project, I explore how writers in the 17th and 18th centuries used … Read more

La recepción literaria de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Un siglo de apreciaciones críticas (1910-2010). Edición e Introducción de Rosa Perelmuter. Recopilación bibliográfica de Luis M. Villar. Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA), Colección «Batihoja». Serie Proyecto Estudios Indianos (PEI). … Read more

As a part of the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity, I am updating my doctoral thesis into a book in the Department of Romance Studies. As indicated in its abstract, my thesis is about speculative aesthetics and philosophy. To … Read more

Over the last two years I have been translating Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country and it was just published with The Feminist Press. This hybrid collection of essays, crónicas, and poems examines systemic violence in contemporary … Read more

One of my current projects is for a journal special issue on reading Proust at home during the coronavirus crisis. My article takes as its inspiration a scene from A la recherche du temps perdu’s third volume where the narrator … Read more