Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, Trinity College; Associate Lecturer in Spanish, Worcester College
Research
My current project examines the representation of children's health in a range of archival materials from Cuba and Puerto Rico after the US's entry into the Caribbean in 1898. I have published several articles on Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, most recently 'Picturing "Our Colonial Problem": Puerto Rico and Jack Delano's Photographic Humanism' (Intersections 27; 2025).
My second monograph, Modernist Laboratories: Science and the Poetics of Progress in Fin-de-Siècle Spanish America (Oxford University Press, 2026), explores intersections between literary and scientific innovation in periodicals published by Spanish Americans between 1870 and 1920, particularly in Mexico, Cuba, and the Hispanic United States. This project has led me to explore early examples of popular science publishing in Spanish America, which reveal the correlations between scientific modernization and nation-building projects. I was the recipient, in 2017-18, of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, which allowed me to advance the research and writing for the project. Between 2015 and 2017 I was co-investigator, with Joanna Page (Cambridge) of the AHRC-funded Science in Text and Culture international network. An edited volume inspired by the network, entitled Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America was published by the University of Florida Press in 2020.
I have written articles and chapters on Mexican fin-de-siècle Spanish American periodicals, popular science, Spanish American modernismo, Decadence, global modernisms, spectrality, and proto-Latinx writers like William Carlos Williams and Julia de Burgos. My previous work, which studies narratives of haunting as responses to different processes of modernization in the Americas and beyond, includes a monograph (Ghost-Watching American Modernity, 2012) and two volumes co-edited with Esther Peeren (The Spectralities Reader from 2013 and Popular Ghosts, 2010).
Supervision
I have supervised doctoral students working on a range on topics related to Latin American and, more widely, hemispheric American literature and culture, and haunting/the ghostly. I welcome students who are interested in studying topics related to literature and science; spectrality; landscape; intellectual history in Latin America and beyond. I'm very interested in supervising comparative projects that explore transnational literary and intellectual exchanges in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Other selected publications
(with Gayle Rogers) “Hispanic Languages,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernism and Translation, eds. Rebecca Beasley and Kasia Szymanska (Bloomsbury 2027).
“Looking at Modernismo Again, and then Again,” Modernism/modernity Print+ (2026).
“Melancholy modernismo: Mundial Magazine’s Continental Thinking (1911-14),” Continental Modernisms, ed. John Hoffmann (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press).
“Reading Yes, Mrs. Williams Now,” Teaching William Carlos Williams, eds. Mark Long et al (Modern Language Association Publications, 2027).
“Martí’s Contemporary Modernista Interlocutors,” José Martí in Context, eds. Laura Lomas and Lourdes Ocampo Andina (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
“H.G. Wells Goes South: Tablada, Ruelas, and Translations of Progress,” in Tides of Progress: Print Culture and Anglo-Hispanic Exchanges, 1890-1945, eds. Peter Hulme and Ana Rodríguez Navas (Bloomsbury, November 2025).
“Racism as Anticolonial Strategy: The Revista Cubana (1885-1894),” Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (Oxford University Press, 2025).
“Queer Lines, Queer Time: Aubrey Beardsley, Julio Ruelas, and Roberto Montenegro in Modernista Magazines,” in Periodicals in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print Culture (University of Florida Press, 2025), 100-118.
“Lyrical Mobilities: William Carlos Williams and Julia de Burgos in the Latinx Grain,” Latinx Literature in Transition,vol. III, eds. John Alba Cutler and Marissa López (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 260-76.
“Science, (Not-)Knowing, and Periodical Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America,” The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, eds. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo (Routledge, 2024), 352-63.
“Spanish American modernismo and British Decadence: Beardsley, Pater, and Wells in the Revista Moderna de México(1903-1911),” Modern Philology 121.1 (August 2023): 57-81.
“Picturing ‘Our Colonial Problem’: Puerto Rico and Jack Delano’s Photographic Humanism,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies(special issue) (2024).
“Resentful Humanitarianism,” PMLA 137.1 (2022), 112-18.
“Science,” Latin American Literature in Transition, vol. 3, eds. Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 293-306.
“Planetarity’s Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism,” in The New Modernist Studies, edited by Douglas Mao (Cambridge University Press, 2020): 67-87.
“Spanish American Literature and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Decadence,” in Decadence: A Literary History, edited by Alex Murray (Cambridge University Press, 2020): 272-86.
“Chine 1929. (Afterword),” Translation and/as Disconnection, Modernism/modernity (Print+) (2018)
“Whither Latinidad?: The Trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Literature, in The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature, edited by Laura Lomas and John Morán González (Cambridge University Press, 2017): 139-56.