I hold a licenciatura in International Relations from El Colegio de México. I joined the RLL Department at the University of Chicago in 2022. My research questions the notion of ‘feminine literature’ in Latin American cultural studies and sheds light on the informal political power of women writers.
My dissertation studies how women authors represented the experience of economic ruin among elites in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Anchored in close readings of canonical and non-canonical materials, my project shows how these authors used stories of downward mobility or “riches to rags” narratives to negotiate historical tensions in twentieth-century Mexico. It argues that, in addition to serving as a catalyst for the development of unique literary works, the experience of ruin produced a new class of professional women writers in Mexico.
My first book, Colonia Cuauhtémoc: Vida cotidiana de una colonia obrera en Monterrey, 1957-2020 (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2023), explores how workers in northern Mexico perceived and responded to company paternalism. Through interviews, fieldwork, and archival work, Colonia Cuauhtémoc traces social and cultural change in twentieth- and twenty-first century industrial Monterrey. As a licenciatura thesis, Colonia Cuauhtémoc received an honorable mention from the Premio Nacional Luis González y González (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2022).
Recent courses in RLL
- SPAN 10200 Beginning Elementary Spanish II (Winter 2025)
- SPAN 20200 Language, History, and Culture II (Autumn 2024)