My work explores how culture can help us imagine new ways of relating to our environment and responding to ecological crisis. I am currently working on a book about cultural responses to the Pacific Ocean in modern Chile, and Peru. This book, tentatively titled 'The Ocean to Come: Pacific Futures in Chile and Peru', will show how the Pacific Ocean has long been a laboratory for imagining alternative futures in those two countries.

This is an intermedial project, working across film, visual art, poetry and fiction, and drawing on recent advances in the fields of environmental humanities, film studies and Latin American cultural studies. The underlying research was funded by an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship: 'Reimagining the Pacific: Images of the Ocean in Chile and Peru, c.1960 to the Present'.

I joined the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol in 2017, after completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge. My doctoral research formed the basis of my first book, Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022). I also completed Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Cambridge, writing my MPhil dissertation on the fragmentary imagery of the body in the works of Roberto Bolaño.

I am interested in how cinema relates to other visual media, in the shifting critical frameworks of Latin American studies, and in the intersections between postcolonial theory and the environmental humanities. I am a co-editor (with Lucy Bollington) of Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (University of Florida Press, 2020), which analyses how discourses of humanism and posthumanism have operated in - and have been shaped by - a wide range of literary and visual cultures in the region. With Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha and Julia Kratje, I also co-edited ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Research supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective research students in any area of Latin American cultural studies, particularly those interested in pursuing research in the following areas:

• Latin American film (especially from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru)
• ecological approaches to cinema and visual media
• urban and domestic spaces
• postcolonial and decolonial theory