She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University in 2012. Her research employs a historical materialist analysis of the conditions of production, circulation, and decay of cultural objects in the context of 21st century Latin America. For her Fisher Center work she is embarking on a project for a critical recovery of the political legacy of anarchism, socialism, and communism that characterized the Republican front of the Spanish Civil War. Through an analysis of the conditions of preservation and survival of the actors and archives of the Spanish Republic during the war and later in exile, the purpose of the project is to shed light on the lasting political effects of acts of organized international solidarity.