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Welcome to my academic website. I am currently a Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University. Before coming to K-State I was a Spanish Instructor at Santiago Canyon College, and a Teaching Assistant in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. I hold a Ph.D. in Spanish with a Designated Emphasis in Corporeality & Embodiment, certificates in University Teaching and Contemporary Hispanophone Literature. I received my Bachelor's degree from UCLA, where I studied Spanish and minored in LGBTQ+ Studies. 

As a scholar, my research focuses on contemporary queer cultural production in Mexico. Specifically I am interested in the intersection of space, gender, and sexually and the construction of all three in queer narrative. My dissertation, titled "Epistemologies of the Baño: Bath Space, Affective Occupation, and Public Sex(ualities) in Contemporary Queer Mexican Narrative," explores the representation of bath space (public bathrooms, bathhouses) in Mexico. Beyond the bathroom, I have published and presented on a host of topics, including Mexican graphic novels, queer film, Paraguayan dictatorial film, and contemporary Latin American literature.