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Research Areas
Latinx Cultural Production, Latin American and Caribbean Theatre, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Aesthetic Theory, Queer of Color Critique, & Contemporary Art Criticism.
Teaching Activities
American College Theatre Festival, Region 3
Instructor, The Institute For Theatre Journalism and Advocacy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latino Cultures
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latin American Cultures
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Latinx Studies
Teaching Assistant, Latino Literary Studies
Ithaca College
Teaching Assistant, Theatre Management Practicum
Teaching Assistant, The Nature of Self
Publications
(Forthcoming) The State of Punk & Resistance in frikiNation: An Interview with Krystal Ortiz, Routledge Companion to New Latine & Carribbean Musical Theatre.
Review: Making the Miami Cubanita : A Pop Cultural Genealogy by Paula Davis Hoffman, The Journal of Pop Culture
Conference Presentations
Research Paper: “Queer Utopian Longing, Worldmaking, and Hauntings in Jesús I. Valles’ Bathhouse.pptx." Latinx Studies Association. March 2026.
Research Paper: “Freedom now!”: Black temporalities, metatheatrics, and refusals in Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. March 2026.
Research Paper: “Notions of Latinx In/Exclusion in the Pan-Ethnicity of In the Heights.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. February 2024.
Roundtable: “Performing Race, Performing Space: Opening Roundtable ’24.” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at University of California Santa Barbara. February 2024.
Research Paper: “Revisiting the Original: Individuality and Finality in Horror Legacy Sequels.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon. June 2023.
Research Paper: “Imperial Exotification and Theatrical Ahistoricism in Peter Shaffer’s The Royal Hunt of the Sun.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. March 2022.
Research Paper: “’Shifting Perception of Latinx Opportunity in Miami Since 1980.” Phi Alpha Theta Western/NY Conference. April 2021.
Accolades
National Leaders of Color Fellow, Illinois at CreativeWest + Arts Midwest
Worker Justice Fellowship at DePaul’s Labor Education Center
BIPOC Critics Lab at The Public Theater
Multicultural Advertising Fellow at American Association of Ad Agencies
Best Paper Award at the Phi Alpha Theta Western/Central NY Conference
Accolades
National Leaders of Color Fellow, Illinois at CreativeWest + Arts Midwest
Worker Justice Fellowship at DePaul’s Labor Education Center
BIPOC Critics Lab at The Public Theater
Multicultural Advertising Fellow at American Association of Ad Agencies
Best Paper Award at the Phi Alpha Theta Western/Central NY Conference
Education
M.A. Latin American and Latino Studies. University of Illinois at Chicago
B.S. Theatre Arts Management/B.A. History. Ithaca College
Projects
(Ongoing) Archives: Studio Theatre's Digital Production History Repository (1979-2010)