I am a second-year student in the Ph.D. program in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies at the University of Miami, who was born and raised in Ecuador. My research focuses on Latin American themes and Indigenous Cosmovision of the Peoples of Abya Yala (the oldest known name for the American continent) and their cultural productions as well as their activism as innovative ways of radical resurgent that propose alternative venues to combat the ecological crisis in the Amazon rainforest and worldwide.
I have taught Spanish I and II courses at Texas State University, Texas Lutheran University, and Northwest Vista College in the San Antonio, Texas, area. I am currently serve as a graduate teaching assistant for the University of Miami.
Degrees:
- M.A. in Spanish, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
- B.A. in Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, Maryland.
- B.A. in Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil School of Law, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Areas of Research: Latin American Studies, Social Movements, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Feminism, Ecocriticism, Amazonia and Environmental Justice. Decolonial Studies, Kichwa Diaspora in the US, Latin American Literature of the 19th and 21st centuries, Aesthetics, Comparative Literature Digital Humanities,Ecuadorian Literature,Modernism, Medardo Ángel Silva.