I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and a member of the core faculty of the Latin American studies and Comparative literature programs. In a broad sense, my teaching and research focus on the cultures of Brazil and Argentina, situated both within their national contexts and in relation to transnational coordinates and dynamics. I accordingly seek to foster approaches that are comparative and conducive to questioning bounded definitions of national cultures. My current book project focuses on the spatial and territorial imagination in the cultural production of Brazil and Argentina from the 1950s onward. My historicizing interpretation of contemporary Brazilian cinema is included in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas' special issue on Geographic imaginaries. I am preparing an article manuscript suggesting new premises for reading Argentine documentary cinema from the second half of the 1950s, linking documentary cinema’s gaze to other contemporary modes of production of knowledge about "under-development." My review article exploring the intersections of memory, space, landscape and exploitation in Latin American cultural anthropology, and examining the broader relevance of these intersections for a cultural studies perspective can be accessed here at the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies’ website. For additional details, please see the abridged version of my CV, below.