I am a cultural critic, intellectual historian, and translator working to write the recent cultural history of Latin America. Since 2020, I am  Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities and affiliate faculty in Latin American Studies at Bucknell University where I teach courses in the history of ideas focused on the Global South. 

I study the political economy of culture in Latin America. My first book, Study Without Ends: Aesthetic Education in Neoliberal Argentina and Chile, focsues on the reproduction of humanist knowledge systems in the Southern Cone in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through the idea of the university and its crises, the literary-critical system, and the institutionalization of theory as they relate to the neoliberal experimentation that has characterized the region since the coups d'état of the early 1970s.  My current project, The Informal: Cultural Infrastructures of the Americas, analyzes  case studies drawn from visual art, film, literature, architecture, urbanism, tourism, and cultural policy in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the United States.to show how  restricted  cultural production in the neoliberal era institutes among elites an aesthetics of informality, a new common sense that lionizes negative liberty at the same time that it naturalizes inequality, precarity, and insecurity. 

My research interests span 20th- and 21st-century Latin American social and cultural texts, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; late 18th- through 20th-century German-language philosophy and history of ideas, especially aesthetic and critical theory; cultural materialisms;  sociologies of culture; critical university studies; and cultural policy studies.

I am a coordinating member of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES), a collective of teachers, scholars and activists  that promotes emancipatory teaching and learning practices from across the Americas. From 2017-2022 I was managing editor of its journal,  LÁPIZ.

I was elected to serve as  secretary-treasurer of AAUP Bucknell upon its rechartering  in June 2023. I also  help to coordinate the Mondragón Radical Library Collective, a leftist community organization and study group in Lewisburg, PA.