Expertise: Spanish and Portuguese
Specializations
- Comparative Hispanic-American and Luso-Brazilian Colonial Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Theory
- Andean literature and visual culture
- Critical Race Studies; focus on historicizing race, mestizaje, racialized sex, and notions of purity of blood.
My research focuses on comparative colonial and postcolonial studies. Within this framework, there are three main lines of inquiry that are reflected in my work.
Specifically, I examine how the emergence of Iberian notions of purity of blood, and later the institutionalization of the African slave trade, decisively influenced systems of colonial racialization that emerged in the Americas.
A second line of research that I have been working on concerns the intellectual history of Latin American Postcolonial Studies.
Finally, in my most recent work I consider the role of visual culture in propagating and contesting colonial tropes of domination and exploitation. I am interested in both the role of visuality during the process of Latin American colonization, as well as the ways in which the ongoing legacies of colonialism in the Andes are reflected in contemporary cultural production such as the graphic novels by Peruvian artist Miguel Det.
Research Interests:
- colonial Latin American literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; mestizaje; miscegenation; feminism; literary and cultural theory
Research Interests
- comparative colonial cultural studies; postcolonial theory; Andean literature and visual culture; critical race studies
