I am Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies and look after students taking Spanish at King’s.
I’ve published books on la Violencia in Colombia, on Latin American popular culture and cultural studies, and on the transnational dimensions of Spanish Studies. My current research looks at representations of Colombia’s largest river, the Río Magdalena, and includes steamboat narratives, poetry by black and mixed-race artisans and boatmen, poetry and art about river burials, novels, cartoons and films about a bloat of renegade hippos, and writings about mangrove mud. It’s taken me to some pretty wild places, and I’ve made a film and exhibited my photographs in the process.
When I’m not splashing about in swamps, I teach the first-year Introduction to the Language, Literature and Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World (SP1), the second-year Latin American Culture and History paper (SP5), two final-year Latin American literature and culture papers (SP12 and SP13), and specialist courses on literature, film and theory on the M. MPhils in Latin American Studies and in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures (ELAC).
Together with Giulia and Ian, I run college-based seminars on modern critical theory in which we explore different ways of thinking about culture, power, sexuality, race, gender, ecology, memory and more.
