Visiting Assistant Professor of English at North Central College. She received her B.A. from Williams College and holds a PhD from Northwestern University in Comparative Literary Studies. She teaches and thinks in English and in Spanish, and studies Modernisms and the Global Avant-Garde from a Latin Americanist perspective. She has published on literary Surrealism, on early peripheral concepts of “world cinema,” and on the Argentine author Roberto Arlt. Together with Federico Barea, she has translated Néstor Sánchez’s “Manhattan Island Notebook,” William Burroughs’s Retreat Diaries, and The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, published by Brill in 2023 with a foreword by Lula da Silva.