I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a core faculty member of the Critical Ethnic and Community Studies program.

I received my Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and my M.A. in philosophy and B.A. in political science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Prior to joining UMass Boston, I held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory at the University of Bologna/Duke University, and was the Karl Lowenstein Fellow at Amherst College.

My research seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. While focused on that question, I have reimagined the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, settler colonial critique, and poststructuralism.

I am the author of Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death in the Settler Colonial Present (SUNY Press 2021), and The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

My research has also been published in Modern Drama, Philosophy and Global Affairs, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Critical Philosophy of Race, Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia, among others.