Professor of Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The CUNY Graduate Center.

My research centers on Latin American photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, documentary film, and feminisms in the Southern Cone. I am the author of La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales Pesados 2021) / The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile’s Dictatorship (UP Florida 2020), which received the Best Book Award in Latin American Visual Culture at LASA 2021 and Best Book Award in Recent History and Memory at LASA 2022. In 2015, along my BMCC colleague Yolanda Medina, I co-edited Latina/os of the East Coast: A Critical Reader (Peter Lang).

I also work on public humanities. Since 2020, I am the Faculty Lead of Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center/CUNY. Archives in Common is a public humanities project developed in collaboration with La Morada, an undocumented family-owned and operated Oaxacan restaurant in the South Bronx. You can visit our website here.

As member of the activist research collective somoslacélula, I create video-essays that respond to pressing matters, such as “Matar el ojo” (2020), formulated in collaboration with writer Lina Meruane.

In 2020, I collaborated with Forensic Architecture, a multidisciplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the video-investigation Tear Gas in Plaza de la Dignidad.