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

• The Institute For Theatre Journalism and Advocacy 

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Introduction to Latino Cultures

• Introduction to Latin American Cultures

• Introduction to Latinx Studies

• Latino Literary Studies

Ithaca College

• Theatre Management Practicum

Publications

• (Upcoming) The State of Punk & Resistance in frikiNation: An Interview with Krystal Ortiz, Routledge Companion to New Latine & Carribbean Musical Theatre.

• "'¿Cual Es Tu Sueño Americano?': The Shifting Latinx Perception of Opportunity in Miami Since 1980,"The Macksey Journal: Vol. 2, Article 152.

Conference Presentations

• (Upcoming) Research Paper: “Queer Utopian Longing, Worldmaking, and Hauntings in Jesús I. Valles’ Bathhouse.pptx." Latinx Studies Association. March 2026.

• (Upcoming) 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

•  Shifting Perception of Latinx Opportunity in Miami Since 1980, Best Paper Award at the Phi Alpha Theta Western/Central NY Conference. April 2021.

Projects

• (Ongoing) Archives: Studio Theatre's Digital Production History Repository (1979-2010)