ABOUT
My work mainly lies at the intersection of political discourse and popular culture with a focus on visual media and critical discourse analysis—as well as horror / gothic / weird mediascapes. My postdoc research project delves into the discursive construction and cultural representation of exclusionary identities in the Trump era, and I also steadily collect material for my book project on uncanny teeth and mouths.
After a few past lives, I obtained my PhD in North American Studies at the Instituto Franklin / Universidad de Alcalá (ES) in co-supervision with CISAN-UNAM (MX) in 2024. I am currently an incoming Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Postdoc Research Fellow at John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin.
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 volumes Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media (Brill, 2024) and The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture (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.