I am an Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. My work focuses on the relationship between art and capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. I specialize in modern and contemporary Iberian visual culture, examining its development within the cultural economy of the European Union, integrating insights from political theory, cultural theory, and political economy.

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I am at work on my first book, Sabotage: Artistic Destruction and the Creative Economy in Neoliberal Europe. This cultural study contends that, just as fin-de-siècle industrial workers used sabotage to protest the reorganization of labor, contemporary artists, writers, activists, and critics, incorporated strategies of sabotage in their production to protest neoliberal economic restructuring—specifically, the use of the artist as a model of the ideal neoliberal worker and the promotion of cultural infrastructure itself to promote and perpetuate neoliberalism.

I have published on Spanish cultural and political history, feminism, and environmental issues. My writing has appeared in boundary 2, the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Forma. Revista d’estudis comparatius d’art, literatura i pensament, Chasqui, LA Review of Books, Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, Revista Re-Visiones, and is forthcoming in Hispanófila and Modern Language Notes. I serve on the board of the Asociación de Literatura y Cine Español Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI), am a research member of the Spanish government-funded project Rhythms of Feminized Labor in Spanish Visual Culture (1936-2022), and am on the advisory board of Revista Re-visiones.

Before joining the Department of Romance Studies at Duke, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, where I taught a course on Contemporary Civilization. My research has been supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Grant, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities Research Grant, and a fellowship at the Fisher Center for Gender and Justice at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. I hold a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Studies and in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University.