Joined CMLL in: 2010, Visiting Assistant Professor; 2011, Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• 20th and 21st-century Latin American Literature
• Southern Cone
• Comparative literature
• Literary and critical theory, with emphasis on philosophical, political and psychoanalytical approaches
• Feminisms, violence against women, femicide, non-binary bodies and sexual difference

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Latin American Literature and Culture (canon and beyond)
• Literary and critical theory
• World literature
• Language and Culture
• Hispanic Women’s writing (specially 20th and 21st Latin American writers)
• Feminine and non- binary literature
• Visual art (painting and photography)

OTHER INTERESTS

• Gardening
• Reading
• Soap opera and Crime T.V series
• New pandemic hobbies: puzzles and Legos!

OTHER LANGUAGES

• French (Intermediate level)
• German (low/intermediate level)

AFFILIATIONS

Affiliate Faculty Member of the Gender Studies Program, MSU

Personal Website

• Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER)/CARES Act. “MSU Support for Online Language Teaching,” US Department of Education. Award $104,683. (Dr. Kelly Moser PI, Sol Pelaez and Karina Zelaya Co-PI)

• Ph.D. in Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo SUNY
• M.A., University at Buffalo, SUNY
• B.A. in History (Licenciatura en Historia), UBA
• B.A. in Professor of High School and Superior Studies, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)