My doctoral research examines the representation of catastrophe in contemporary Southern Cone fiction, focusing on how recent novels develop innovative narrative strategies to render experiences of vulnerability and uncertainty in a time of environmental disruption. The project brings into dialogue a heterogeneous corpus that includes Las indignas by Agustina Bazterrica, El monte de las furias by Fernanda Trías, La infancia del mundo by Michel Nieva, El vasto territorio by Simón López-Trujillo, and Trilogía del agua by Claudia Aboaf. By reading these works together, I seek to offer a panoramic overview of the ways contemporary authors imaginatively and formally engage with the textualisation of catastrophe. 

My DPhil project is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC OOC studentship) and the Clarendon Fund.

I hold an MPhil in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, where I examined the representation of water-related catastrophes in contemporary Argentinian speculative fiction. I also earned a BA in Hispanic and Italian Studies and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Zurich. During my time in Zurich, I worked as a research assistant on projects exploring the cultural uses of waste in Latin American arts and literature, as well as the digitalisation of the Eugenio Coseriu Archive.

My research interests include memory studies, new materialisms, the Anthropocene, and environmental humanities.