About
I am interested in exploring text through the lenses of waste studies, environmental narrative, and the Anthropocene. I am particularly interested in how concepts of fluidity, instability, and disposability can serve as tools for reading texts that grapple with precarity and marginalization. In previous work, I have applied this approach to the writings of Carolina Maria de Jesus and Roberto Bolaño, examining how their works register social and material forms of exclusion. Additionally, I am interested in the environmental and extractivist narratives that belie the transatlantic cultural connections between Galicia and Brazil, with attention to how histories of migration, exploitation, and resilience intersect across these landscapes. I hold undergraduate degrees in International Relations and in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Texas at Austin. Before beginning graduate studies, I lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro with a nonprofit based in the Morro do Borel and Jardim Gramacho, experiences that continue to inform my work.
