• PhD, French Literature, Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2012
• MA, French Literature, Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2008
• BA/Licenciatura en Filosofía, Universidad Iberoamericana, México, 2005

• Modern and Contemporary French Literature and Art
• French Women Writers
• Aesthetics, Literature, and the Arts
• Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy
• Global Avant-gardes (with a special interest in Brazil and the Caribbean)

Current Research

• Symptom and Sensation: Post-Freudian Experiments in Literature and Art
• Voice and the Unnamable in Samuel Beckett and Luciano Berio

• “Duras’ Césarée and the Subject of Love.” CR: The New Centennial Review 15.3 (2015): 167-199.
• “‘A Vital Unliveable Force’: Rhythm in Nathalie Sarraute’s Writing.” Mosaic2 (2015): 83-98.
• “Chaos-monde and the Aesthetics of Depth in the art of Artur Barrio, Jacques Coursil, and Damián Ortega.” ARTMargins 3.1 (2014): 55-80.

• FR 213: Languages, Texts, and Contexts III
• FR 482: L’expérience littéraire
• FR 525/COL 525: Art-writing and the Functions of the Aesthetic
• FR 525/COL 646: Creation and the Limits of Language in French Experimental Literature

• UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2017
• UB Faculty Internationalization Fund in support of collaborative research and student exchange planning with MARGE research group and Université de Lyon, April 3, 2016