Publications | Publicaciones

Here is a list of all my publications:

Esta es una lista de todas mis publicaciones:

Books | Libros

Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature

Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political purposes.

From the Porfirian regime in Mexico to Castro’s Cuba, this book describes how such regimes have sought to seize medical knowledge to support propagandistic ideas and marginalize their opponents in ways that transcend specific pathologies, political ideologies, and geographical and temporal boundaries.

This book brings together the work of literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of medicine, arguing that contemporary authors have actively challenged authoritarian narratives of medicine and disease. In doing so, they continue to re-examine the place of these regimes in the collective memory of Latin America and Spain.

Google Books

Routledge

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production cover.

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production promotes a deeper understanding of cultural forms in Latin America and breaks down disciplinary divides—both between critical animal studies and critical plant studies and between fields such as literary studies, film studies, and art history. Ultimately, this collection challenges anthropocentric perspectives as it offers new pathways to think about and with plants and animals.  

Contributors analyze a wide range of cultural production, including recent science films on monarch butterfly migration, nineteenth-century photographs of Panama, the eighteenth-century diary of a nun in New Granada, 1920s Brazilian landscape paintings, contemporary Zapotec poetry, and twentieth-century vegetarian cookbooks from Uruguay and Mexico. These essays uncover the entanglements of nonhuman lives with issues such as race, gender, labor, and coloniality, while highlighting other-than-human ways of living, knowing, and communicating.

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University Press of Florida

Articles and Chapters | Artículos y capítulos

  • “Español para la ciencia y la tecnología/Spanish for Science and Technology.” Español para Fines Específicos (EFE)The Routledge Handbook of Spanish for Specific Purposes, edited by Barbara A. Lafford, Anita Ferreira Cabrera, and Elisabet Arnó Macià, Routledge, 2025, pp. 121-133. [Routledge page]
  • “Pérdida y duelo en Hijo de monarcas/Son of Monarchs: una aproximación desde las humanidades médicas.” Humanidades médicas: debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales, edited by Ana Forcinito, Hispanic Issues On Line, vol. 33, 2024, pp. 202-217. [webpage]
  • With Bella Klosterman. “Dos visiones del futuro: ficción especulativa y cambio climático en la literatura mexicana contemporánea.” Catedral Tomada, vol. 12, no. 22, 2024, pp. 298-321. [webpage]
  • “Violencia, medio ambiente y ciencia neoliberal en La edad del barro de Sara Rosenberg,” Ciberletras, no. 49, 2023, pp. 73-88. [pdf]
  • With Viviana Rangil. “CLAC at a SLAC: A Distinctive Model for Teaching Language Across the Curriculum in the Context of a Small Liberal Arts College.” Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum in Higher Education: Harnessing the Transformative Potentials of CLAC across Disciplines, edited by India Plough and Welore Tamboura, Routledge, 2023, pp. 131-144. [Routledge page]
  • “Un plaguicida en el franquismo: comunicación de riesgos tóxicos en España, 1945-1975.” História, Ciências, Saúde–Manguinhos, vol. 29, no. 2, 2022, pp. 421-440. [website]
  • “Agrochemical Toxicity in Latin America.” LASA Forum, vol. 53, no. 2, 2022, pp. 79-85. [link]
  • “Poshumanismo y capitalismo digital en Kentukis de Samanta Schweblin.” Hispanic Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-17. [webpage]
  • “‘He Did Not Know Which of the Two Shadows Was His’: A Posthumanist Reading of Amparo Dávila’s First Short Story Collection.” Humanística, vol. 2, no.3, 2021, pp. 68-83. [webpage]
  • “Escaping the Visual Trap of the Agricultural Frontier: Fernando Solanas’s Viaje a los pueblos fumigados.” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 48, no. 96, 2021, pp. 79-85. [webpage]
  • “Spanish for STEM in U.S. Higher Education: A Historical Review and Future Perspectives.” Global Business Languages, vol. 21, 2021, pp. 1-16. [pdf]
  • “Local Landscapes, Global Conversations: The Case of Three Environmental Documentary Films from the Hispanic World.” Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World, special issue of Hispanic Issues On Line, edited by Kata Beilin, Kathleen Conolly, and Micah McKay, vol. 24, 2019, pp. 65–78. [webpage]
  • “Toxic Chemicals in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream).” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019, pp. 148-161. [webpage]  
  • “Spanish for the Sciences: A Communication-Based Approach.” Ibérica. Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, no. 36, 2018, pp. 195-216. [pdf]
  • “Ficciones de contagio voluntario: VIH/sida en el periodo especial.” Letras Hispanas, vol. 14, 2018, pp. 7-21. [pdf]
  • “Spanish: A Language for Scientific and Technical Communication.” Hispania, special Centenary Issue “Visionary Essays: The Future of Spanish and Portuguese,” vol. 100, no. 5, 2017, pp. 102-103. [Project MUSE page]
  • “Ensayos clínicos y neoliberalismo en Wakolda de Lucía Puenzo.” Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual, no. 15, 2017, pp. 1-22. [webpage]
  • “La Montaña Mágica: Representations of HIV/AIDS from the Sanatorium.” Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture, edited by Luis H. Castañeda and Javier González, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp. 37-60. [link]
  • “Una aproximación biopolítica a la narrativa de la posguerra: La tuberculosis en Pabellón de reposo de Camilo José Cela y El mar de Blai Bonet.” Hispania, vol. 98, no. 2, 2015, pp. 231–42. [JSTOR page]
  • “A Queer Reading of Nuevo Cine Mexicano.” Film International, vol. 12, no. 4, 2014, pp. 69-83. [link]

Special Issues | Dossiers

  • Special issue titled: “Escritoras de la Generación de Medio Siglo,” coedited with Giannina Reyes Giardiello, Humanística, vol. 2, no. 3, 2021. [intro pdf; contents webpage]
  • Special issue titled: “Border Environments,” coedited with Gail Bulman, Beth Jörgensen, and Anindita Banerjee, Latin American Literary Review, vol. 48, no. 96, 2021. [pdf]

Reviews | Reseñas

  • Review of Josephine Donovan’s Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. April 2023. [webpage]
  • Review of Lesley Wylie’s The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. June 2021. [webpage]  

I have also worked as part of multidisciplinary teams conducting health and statistics research. For a list of publications visit the following link:

También he trabajado como parte de equipos multidisciplinarios que realizan investigaciones en el área de la salud y la estadística. En el siguiente enlace se puede encontrar una lista de publicaciones a este respecto:

Health and Statistics Publications
Publicaciones en salud y estadística