She earned her Ph.D. is Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literatures at Columbia University. She specializes in Caribbean and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures, with a strong subspecialty in theories of race and ethnicity, as well as transnational and diaspora studies. She is the recipient of the 2016 Bancroft Dissertation Prize. Her current book project explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latino cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s through appropriations of the era’s transnational frameworks, including proletarian fraternalism, Pan-Americanism and anti-fascism. Her work has appeared in NACLA, American Quarterly, Diálogo, and Centro Journal.