I am a scholar of Medieval and Early Modern Comparative Literature (15th–18th centuries). My research explores the interaction between the Indigenous Americas and the Mediterranean in myth, fiction, and art across different fields of knowledge, including antiquarianism, cosmography, and natural history.

I'm interested in the reception and transformation of Indigenous and pre-Columbian narrative, material, and visual culture within transatlantic geographies of cross-cultural contact; and the interaction between medieval mediterranean and indigenous bodies of knowledge. As a comparatist, I work with Romance, Indigenous, and Classical languages from a world literature perspective. Interdisciplinary in scope, my work spans literary, material, and visual sources.

At the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London, I contribute to the Comparative Literature and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies areas. I also serve as convenor for the MA program in Comparative Literature.

I have a PhD from Columbia University, MA and Licenciatura from Universidad de Buenos Aires. I also practice drawing and illustration and actively follow all sorts of sports.

Research interests and PhD supervision

I advise students interested in:

• World Literature and Global Middle Ages and Early Modernity
• Literatures of the Early Americas
• Material culture
• Archaeology
• Myth, Heroes, and Monsters

Teaching

• World Literature
• Early Americas
• Indigenous Literature
• Material Culture

Selected publications

• “Ecuador”. Wallace, David (Ed.) National Epics, Oxford University Press. [Forth]
• “Entangled Archaeologies of Manuscript Arts in the Early Modern Andes”. Vistas: Critical Approaches to Latin American Art. Vol 9 - 2023.
• “Hilos y huellas de las flotas del Rey Salomón en la América Prehispánica: Las navegaciones ultramarinas antiguas reinventadas en la Miscelánea Antártica (1586) de Miguel Cabello Balboa”. Revista Telar, Dossier Pasajes Entre Mundos, 2023: 1-31.
• “Tiahuanaco and Sacsayhuamán: Creating Early Modern World Histories through Pre-Columbian Andean buildings”. Radlwimmer, Romana (Ed.) Relating Continents. Coloniality and Global Encounters in Romance Literary and Cultural History, De Gruyter, 2023: 225-249
• “Sacsayhuaman in der Frühen Neuzeit: Die Erfindung neuer antiker Bauwerke” in Verso: A Discussion Forum of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, 2023. English version: https://verso.hypotheses.org/2911