This dissertation explores the relationship between cultural production in Puerto Rico from 2005 to the present and the unfolding debt crisis on the island. I explore the relationship between colonialism as an institution, coloniality as a broader structuring of power, and the current debt crisis by examining cultural objects that...
One of the challenges of interrogating the increasing precarity of living conditions in some regions of the Americas is seeking for a way of productively addressing the intersections between inequality, climate crisis, and systemic violence. This dissertation analyzes a corpus of contemporary Latin American and Latinx literary and visual works...
In this dissertation I examine the entanglement between female literacy and female sexuality in nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. I investigate the ways in which male authors used literature as a mechanism for policing female sexuality and stabilizing the traditional family. I argue that nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction exhibits a recurring preoccupation with...
