Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Education
- 2021 PhD, Romance Studies, Duke University
- 2018 MA, Romance Studies, Duke University
- 2012 MA, Investigación en Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
- 2009 BA, History, Earlham College
Professional appointments
- 2022-2025 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
- 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Migrant Frontiers: Race and Mobility in the Luso-Hispanic World. Edited by Anna Tybinko, Lamonte Aidoo, and Daniel F. Silva, Liverpool University Press, 2023.
- “Decolonizing the Metropole: The Born-Translated Works of Najat El Hachmi and Agnès Agboton as Literary Activism.” Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2022.
- “Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain.” The Routledge Companion to 21st Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, edited by Cristián Ricci, Routledge, 2023.
- “Translating Migrant Precarity in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal.” Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multi-lingual Literatures, Arts and Cultures, Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, Manchester University Press, 2022.
Teaching
Vanderbilt University
- Advanced Spanish for the Professions: Contemporary Issues in the Spanish-Speaking World
- First-Year Writing Seminar: Migrants Write the City