About Me

As a comparatist, I focus on the transnational aspects of migration in Latinx America, the Caribbean, and USA from the 19th century to the present. My other research lines include intersectional feminism & sexuality studies, modern literary history, and the long history of race in Spain.

One critical question that I address in my reading and writing is the following: it seems to me that in the present age, redress through story is usurping the place of radicalism and revolution in the progressive imagination. Because of this, some scholars call our age a tragic one. They see the hopes of nationalists that constituted the present and future horizons of radical, e.g. revolutionary social change in the 19th and 20th centuries as false, misguided, and even exhausted. Perhaps the decolonial movement singularly keeps such a radical progressive and revolutionary spirit alive. Oftener intellectuals take up the question of the political possibilities of story and storytelling to supplant the narrative silences and official erasures limiting the present. I counter optimistically the scholars that deem this development tragic. Redress through story and cultural memory, rather than revolution, I argue, can move society past the impasse that revolution inevitably entails in the form of revolutionary violence.