My academic research focuses on examining how neoliberal market dynamics and the many possibilities of mass and social media favor the exhibition of the biographies and bodies of literary authors. My dissertation analyzes the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain writers have been able…

Thanks to the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship in 2019 I visited Mexico City to do archival research in the Hemeroteca Nacional de México (The National Newspaper Archive of Mexico). This summer’s research gave me the opportunity to have a broader approach to Nineteenth Century Magazines created by women writers. Due to the direct access to…

 Within Guyanese racial and religious discourses, Madrasis are a minority of the South Asian population who embarked for the New World, or British Guiana, between 1838 and 1917 via the southern port of the Madras Presidency of the British Empire as sugar plantation laborers. Particular sonic practices have become emblematic of Madrasi religious and racial…

The CLACLS funding allowed me to travel to Maya indigenous communities in the northern highlands of Guatemala. There, I did fieldwork among people who experienced the war between the years 1969 and 1986. Together with a group of survivors we went to the hamlets and mounts where many resisted and fought during and after the…

The CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship funding allowed me to reach key stakeholders within Chile’s language market. As my research involves an analysis of a broad spectrum of linguistic ideologies, being in Santiago helped me focus on a close, detailed observation of phenomena. My preliminary findings consisted on a complex weaving of emerging political discourses about…