As a specialist in Contemporary Latin America Studies, I research national and trans-national flows, as well as social inequality in the Andes. My current research examines the emergence of speculative fiction Andean futurism, and neo-Indigenist cultural narratives, with a particular focus on the Anthropocene and the cultural transformations that have shaped the post–Cold War period. Other research interests include the cultural connections between the Chinese and African Diasporas in Andean countries. Across my scholarship, I investigate how cultural narratives imagine and contest the relationship between space and movement. Whether through migration, transnational circulation, or speculative futures, my work explores how shifting geographies of mobility reshape identities, cultural production, and forms of belonging in contemporary Latin America.
I teach a variety of courses that include Spanish for the Professions, Latin American Literature, Film, and Culture, Latino/a Literature in the U.S., Comparative Literature of the Americas, composition, rhetoric, narrative, theater, and Spanish as a second language. During the last ten years, I have been teaching in both English and Spanish, in and outside of the U.S., I adapt my classroom activities according to my students’ varying backgrounds—graduate, undergraduate, heritage speakers, as well as students who have no previous knowledge of Spanish.
My work at the university level started in Peru, where I gave classes at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and the Universidad Nacional de Ingienería. I have also worked as coordinator of language and literature courses at the Universidad Nacional de Ingienería, and as Counselor for the National Language Evaluation (2004, 2005) in the Ministerio de Educación del Perú [Education Ministry].