Degrees

• B.A., Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Literature, 2000
• M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Latin American Literature, 2003
• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2007

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2014-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2008-2014
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2007-2008
• Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2006-2007
• Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2006
• Instructor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 1998-2001

Distinctions

• Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2016-2017
• Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Tulane Graduate Studies Students Association, 2016
• Carol S Levin Fund for Faculty Research Film Studies Program, Tulane University, 2014-2015
• Glick Research Fellowship, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2014-2015
• CELT Fellow, Tulane University, 2012-2013
• COR Summer Fellowship, Tulane University, 2009
• Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2003-2005
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2001-2003
• Academia Argentina de Letras Award, 2000

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese

Overseas Experience

• Argentina
• Cuba

Related Experience

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Tulane University, 2012-

Selected Publications

• 2016. “Distancia, afecto y razón: Entrenamiento elemental para actores de Federico León y Martín Rejtman.” Revista Iberoamericana. 257: 793-804.
• 2016. “Displacing the ‘I’: Uses of the First Person in Recent Argentine Biographical Documentaries.” Edited by Lupe Arenillas and Michael Lazzara. Latin American Documentary Filmmaking in the New Millennium. New York: Palgrave. 63-77.
• 2014. “First-Person Documentary and the New Political Subject: Enunciation, Recent History, and the Present in New Argentine Cinema.” Edited by Vinicius Navarro and Juan Carlos Rodríguez. New Documentaries in Latin America. New York: Palgrave. 45-58.
• 2014. “Tango, Politics, and the Musical of Exile.” Edited by Marilyn Miller. Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice. Durham: Duke UP. 118-139.
• 2013. Escribir el espacio ausente. Exilio y cultura nacional en Díaz, Wajsman y Bolaño. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio.
• 2013. “Argentine Multiculturalism and the Ethnographic Shift in Documentary Cinema: Martín Rejtman’s Copacabana.” Social Identities 19, 3-4: 340-350.
• 2009. “Utilidad e inconvenientes de la escritura en colaboración para la vida (académica).” Brújula 7.1:142-145.
• 2007. “Respiración artificial, novela ejemplar.” In Provisoria-mente: textos para Diamela Eltit. John Beverley, Diamela Eltit, et al, eds. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo. 97-108.
• 2007. “Cuarteles de invierno de Osvaldo Soriano: extraterritorialidad y ‘alegoría nacional’.” Latin American Essays. 20: 50-56.
• 2006. “Jesús Díaz rewrites Cuban exile.” In Cuba: In Transition? Pathways to Renewal, Long-Term Development and Global Reintigration. Mauricio A. Font, ed. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, CUNY. 309-313.
• 2006. “Más allá del ‘formato memoria’: la repostulación del imaginario postdictatorial en Los rubios de Albertina Carri.” With Verónica Garibotto. A contracorriente. 3 (2): 107-126.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• SPAN-6790-01: Latin American Film and Visual Culture