ABOUT
My main research themes are related to ethnoracial representations, borders, discourses and identity re/de/constructions in the North American context, Latinx Studies, and US popular culture—with a focus on visual media and critical discourse analysis. My current research work delves into the discursive construction and cultural representation of exclusionary identities and anti-immigrant stances.
I obtained my PhD in North American Studies at the Instituto Franklin at Universidad de Alcalá (ES) in co-supervision with CISAN-UNAM (MX), with a dissertation on the representation of Mexico in US American cinema. I am currently a postdoc research fellow at Instituto Franklin-UAH.
Otherwise, I play games, read crime novels, love art, and enjoy all sorts of stuff that intrigues me.
RESEARCH
I’ve been publishing articles and chapters, as well as dissemination pieces, on topics related to my main research interests. My monograph The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing the Boundary is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press, while the monograph provisionally titled Gone South: The American Experience of Mexico in US Cinema is currently under review at SDSU Press. I’ve also edited a few collections, among which the volume Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media (Brill, 2024).
EDITORIAL WORK
Chief editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal REDEN, dedicated to the study of US popular culture and new media
Book review editor for the peer-reviewed academic journal Camino Real, dedicated to Latinx and US Hispanic Studies
PROJECTS
POPMEC
In 2019, I founded the academic collective PopMeC that transformed into the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies. Now it counts with an amazing team, events including in-person and virtual conferences, an academic blog for ECRs and the peer-reviewed journal REDEN.
Latinx, Chicanx, and Indigenous Studies European Network
(coming soon!)