Biography

I am drawn to literature for its profound engagement with every aspect of life, from the existential to the everyday, and for its capacity to bring forth alternative ways of existence. In my MPhil dissertation at Cambridge, I explored the concept of spatial dignity in the way marginalised subjects conceived and practiced space in Mexico during the Porfiriato. For my PhD project, I aim to challenge prevailing notions of the Latin American desert as an empty, desolate space, and to interrogate how such representations have contributed to the disposability of both human and non-human life. Bringing together contemporary Latin American texts and diverse aesthetic forms, I explore how imaginaries of emptiness have underpinned extractivism, epistemicide, and the dehumanisation of migrants. I believe the stories we tell are inextricably linked to our epistemological and affective engagements with the world, placing literature in a unique position to stir the imagination and reshape our collective consciousness.

Previous Education

Universidad de Los Andes Literature
University of Cambridge ELAC