Education

Ph.D in Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedra

Research Interests

• Technology and society studies
• 20th - 21st Century anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean
• Caribbean speculative and science fiction
• Digital humanities scholarship
• Digital cultures in the Caribbean and the U.S.
• Japanese culture influence on Caribbean science fiction and culture

Publications

“What the Doppelgänger Says About Female Characters in Murakami’s Fiction: Close Reading The Strange Library”. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2018, pp. 99-101.

“La música como elemento mágico realista y aspectos de la ‘janponeidad’ en dos novelas de Murakami”. Revista [IN]Genios, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-11.

Selected Presentations

“De manos que se levantan y voluntades voluntariosas: Wiso t Mishima”. Latin American Studies Annual Conference (LASA). May 23-26, 2018.

“Murakami’s Female Mediums: Cross-gender Doubling in The Strange Library and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage”. 40 Years with Murakami Conference, organized by Newcastle University. March 6-9, 2018.

“La música como elemento mágico-realista y la ‘japoneidad’ en dos novelas de Murakami: Tokyo Blues y 1Q84”. XXXVI Annual ILASSA Student Conference, organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association at the University of Texas at Austin. March 3-5, 2016.

Grants and Fellowships

• Dr. Piri Fernández de Lewis Award for our most distinguished Comparative Literature undergraduate student and best Comparative Literature undergraduate thesis in the class of 2018
• Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Spring 2016-Present.
• Honors Program Student. Fall 2015-Summer 2018.
• Dean’s List for Tuition Exemption. Spring 2015-Summer 2018.