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.
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. 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!)