Education

  • M.A. Hispanic Language and Literatures, Boston University (2024) 
  • B.A. Political Science, Federal University of Piaui, Brazil (2017) 

Research

My academic research focuses on the analysis of the fictional spaces of asylums, hospices, and total institutions in Latin American literature, emphasizing themes of hospitalization, psychiatric violence, and mortification in contemporary Cuban narratives. I explore works by Cuban writers from the second half of the 20th century, particularly the 1960s to the Special Period, examining how they portray experiences of illusion, disillusionment, and hopelessness with the revolutionary socialist utopia through topophobic literary representations. 

 My study investigates the role that these traumatic experiences play in the fictional materialization of claustrophobic spaces and other microcosms of oppression and political violence, both on the island and in exile. I also reflect on how these literary works of extreme contrast confront or subvert the narratives of Cuba’s official history, revealing its tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. Ultimately, my research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of these complex spaces and their impact on discourses, interactions, and meanings of the Cuban post-revolutionary experience, highlighting the dynamics of disenchantment, censorship, and confinement and their relevance to contemporary discussions.

Publications

  • “Poesía y justicia racial en ‘Elegía a Emmett Till’, de Nicolás Guillén”. Káñina, vol. 48(1), pp. 1–17. Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Feb. 2024.
  • “Os territórios do hospício e o domínio da loucura na imaginação literária de Guillermo Rosales”. Revista do GELNE, Natal, Brazil, vol. 23, n° 1, p. 83-98, Feb. 2021
  • “La experiencia del exilio y el paradigma de la destrucción de la memoria en La casa de los náufragos, de Guillermo Rosales.” Revista Em Tese, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, vol. 26, n° 1, Jan.-April 2020

Presentations

  • 2024. “La desestabilización del pacto autobiográfico en Autobiografía de Doña Josefa Acevedo de Gómez”. BU Romance Studies Graduate Conference. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2023. “Psychiatric Violence and Annihilation of Subjectivities in Guillermo Rosales’ Boarding Home”. BU Romance Studies Graduate Conference 2023. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 2021. “Guillermo Rosales y la Geografía del Desencanto”. VI Hispanic Studies Core Colloquium – X International Congress of Languages & Literatures. Piaui State University, Teresina, Brazil
  • 2019. “Lima Barreto and the Vestiges of Madness: Elements of Autobiographical Fiction in Cemitério dos Vivos.” VI International Conference of Afro-Brazilian and African Literatures, History and Cultures. Piaui State University, Teresina, Brazil.
  • 2019. “Subjectivity Annihilation and Self-Mortification in the ‘World’s Inmate’: The Territories of Madness in Diário do Hospício, by Lima Barreto.” VI International Conference of Afro-Brazilian and African Literatures, History and Culture. Piaui State University, Teresina, Brazil.
  • 2019. “Fear, Memory, and Fantasy: The Poetic Representation of the Damaged Object in O prato azul-pombinho, by Cora Coralina.” II SimLer: Literary Symposium of Readings, Reflections, and Dialogues. Federal University of Piaui, Teresina, Brazil
  • 2019. La experiencia del exilio y el paradigma de la destrucción de la memoria en La casa de los náufragos, de Guillermo Rosales.” III CONIL: Language and Literature in Times of Resistance. Federal University of Maranhão, Campus Bacabal, Brazil.
  • 2019. “Boarding Home: The Experience of the Hospice and the Domain of Madness in Guillermo Rosales’ literary imagination”. VII International Seminar of Studies on Literary Spaces. Federal University of Piaui, Teresina, Brazil.