Welcome!
I am a literary and cultural studies scholar, working across the fields of Latin American and African studies. My research and teaching aim to develop trans-regional approaches to cultural expressions from the Global South, with a special focus on South-Atlantic entangled histories, decolonial epistemologies, and critical ecologies.
Since 2022, I lead the research project "Forgotten Routes across the Atlantic: Cultural Transfers between Africa and Latin America (1960-1990)", funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This study unearths overlooked archives of Cold War transcontinental encounters among key intellectuals of the 20th century. In my upcoming book, I chart South Atlantic’s forgotten routes crafted by artists and writers during the rise of Black Internationalism and Non-Aligned cultural diplomacy.
My previous work centers on contemporary Latin American literature and art. Giros topográficos: (re)escrituras del espacio en la narrativa latinoamericana del s.XXI (Potsdam UP, 2022), my first monograph, explores how contemporary nomadic experiences of travel and hyperconnectivity generate new discursive spaces that reinterpret the meaning of community beyond territorial and national boundaries. Drawing on spatial turn theories, the book proposes new mobile reading frameworks for contemporary Latin American narrative.
In my recent publications, I reframe the production of space in Global South cultures through the lenses of ecofeminism, indigenous cosmologies, and post-human theory. I am particularly interested in connecting artistic and critical "earthly semiotics" across a wide range of works produced since the 1960s in Africa and Latin America. Related to this topic, I have co-edited and curated, alongside Azucena Castro, the online cluster “Geo-Semantics: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in the Global South” and the Special Issue Geological Groundings (JLACS).
One of the main motivations behind my work is to strengthen and expand collaborative networks across the Global South. For that purpose I co-convened the international conferences "Decolonizing the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South" in 2024 in Paris, and South- South Comparativism: History, Methods, Repertoires in 2025 at the Free University of Berlin.
I serve as associate editor of the journal Global South Literary Studies. During the Winter Term of 2026/27, I am appointed as Visiting Assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck.