I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Latin American Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. 

My monograph The Darkening Nation (2018) explores the connections between the 2001 financial meltdown in Argentina and the crisis of narratives of whiteness and national identity by examining literary texts, popular music, artworks and films. I am also the co-editor of Chile desde los estudios culturales and Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Latin American literary and cultural production
Critical Race Theory
Digital Humanities
Marxism
Kitsch and the politics of good and bad taste
Critical Whiteness Studies
Opportunities

PhD STUDENTS

Nicolle Alzamora (in progress): Panama as a Point of Transit: Identity and Memory Practices (with James Scorer).

Dylan Bradbury (in progress): Aural Media as a Tool for the Consolidation of Identity: Mapuche Uses of Sound in Asserting Cultural & Territorial Autonomy in Contemporary Argentina (with Peter Wade).

Rodrigo López Martínez (2019–22): Fictional Avant-gardes in Latin American Literature (1973–2015) (with James Scorer).

Nicola Runciman (2013–17): Image, Process, Experience: Exploring the Landscapes of Chilean Cinema (2008-2014) (with Chris Perriam).