Education

  • M.A. Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2024)
  • B.A. History, University of California, Irvine (2010)

Research

I’m interested in the construction of race in early modern Spain’s literature and culture.
In particular, I’m interested in representations of Blackness and non-white peoples in early modern Spain’s literary and theatrical production and the effects such representations had on the racialization of Black Africans, Muslims, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Lately, I’ve been working on an essay that draws connections between Don Quijote and historias verdaderas to demonstrate how Cervantes ironizes and critiques empiricism and its relationship to “the truth”.

Publications

  • “The Ties that Bond: Lending Practices and Economic Subjectivity in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic.” Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference. Minneapolis, MN. October 28, 2022.