About
I am a Latin American resercher specializing in Cuba, Caribbean and Latinx Studies.
My book project "Actos en común: interrupciones y comunidades en el teatro cubano y cubanoamericano (1970-2020)" addresses the emancipatory dimension of theater and performance through plays staged in Havana, New York, and Miami from the 1970s to the present. I argue that contemporary theater productions challenge notions of community and national ulity and create a space for audiences to envision differently what it menas to be Cuban or Cuban American in a post'1959 revolutionary context. I analize plays by theater groups such as Teatro El Público ad El Ciervo Encantado and plays by Rogelio Orizondo, Ulises Rodrigues Febles, Carlos Celdran, Ivan Acosta, Dolores Prida, and Nilo Cruz.
Regarding teaching, I am focused on simulation-based learning techniques, anti-racist pedagogies, and universal learning design.Other research and teaching interest convey México and the Andean Region.
PUBLICATIONS - ORCID: 0000-0002-3490-5153
Peer Reviewed:
“El teatro y la memoria emergente de El Mariel: Testimonio, vulnerabilidad y archivo”. Anthurium, vol. 17, no. 2, 2021, p. 8. http://doi.org/10.33596/anth.454
"Prácticas trans y herencia revolucionaria en el teatro Rogelio Orizondo." Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, vol. 35 no. 2, 2020, p. 109-122. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cnf.2020.0010.
Other publications:
Interview: "Against Conventional Harmony: An Interview with the Cuban Theatre Company El Ciervo Encantado" .Performance Matters, vol.8 no1, 2022, p. 125-129. https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/343
Creative writing: "No hace ruido la nieve cuando cae (un ensayo sobre lo que no vemos)". Latin American Literary Review, 48(97). DOI: http://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.213
Performance Review: “Entre nosotr@s Todo Va Bien, Una Obra De Teatro El Público”. Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 53, no. 1, Nov. 2019, pp. 147-8, https://journals.ku.edu/latr/article/view/10266
Enciclopedia Entries: “Havana Suite”, “Parting of the Ways”, “Madagascar” and “El viajero inmóvil” in A Cuban Cinema Companion, edited by Amanda McMenamin, Salvador Jiménez Muguía and Sean O’Reilly. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019
Book chapter: “La función transgresiva del erotismo en El color del verano o nuevo ‘jardín de las delicias’ de Reinaldo Arenas,” in El erotismo en la modernidad, edited by Ángel Clemente and Javier Rivero Grandoso. Compañía Española de Reprografía y Servicios (Cersa). Madrid, 2012, pp. 257-69. ISBN: 978-84-15341-50-5
RECENT COURSES
"Realidades latinoamericanas y latinx en la época de la globalización cultural". Disigned for: "Spanish 373: Special Topics in Spanish Literature"
“Latinoamérica a través de su naturaleza”. Winter 2021. Designed for: “Spanish 280: Conversation in Spanish Through film."
“Transgresiones en el teatro y la literatura del Caribe Hispano”. Winter 2020. Designed for: “Spanish 296: Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures”
“Geographies of Migration: Latinx Here and There” Fall 2018, Winter 2019. Designed for: “Spanish 280: Conversation in Spanish Through film.”
