Professor and Chair, Hispanic Studies
I teach across the Hispanic studies curriculum, from intermediate Spanish to upper-division seminars on Latin American literary and cultural studies. I also regularly offer courses in English as part of our interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program. As I scholar, I am primarily interested in the cultural production of nineteenth-century Latin America. My book demonstrates how political rivals in post-revolutionary Argentina were complicit in articulating modern political concepts by employing a variety of cultural forms, including portraiture, graffiti, audiovisual spectacles, and literature. My recent work includes studies on , and my current book project concerns the cultural origins of populism throughout Latin America in the nineteenth century. I鈥檝e also published a series of essays on the ways in which , , and reconfigure foundational figures and myths in the present.