My research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American literature, descriptive bibliography, book history, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both digital and print cultures.My research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American literature, descriptive bibliography, book history, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both digital and print cultures.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities in the Romance Languages Department at the University of Georgia. Before arriving in Athens, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University.
My first monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace (Yale University Press, 2021), considers the marked presence of books, periodicals, and other print mediums in Jorge Luis Borges’s life by analyzing the physical features of his publications, which I read through the lens of analytical bibliography and material studies. In particular, I examine how each of his works were composed and circulated among diverse audiences, the publishers with whom he entered into contracts, his own level of bibliophilia, and how all of these factors influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also cosmopolitan reading in Latin America.
I also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges (Oxford University Press, 2024) with Daniel Balderston.
As a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton, I researched the influence and effect of global literary networks on print culture in Latin America. More specifically, I built a database and generated a series of network graphs centered on Victoria Ocampo’s publishing enterprise. My findings informed the groundwork for my current monograph, Bound Togther: Global Interdependence in the Latin American Book Market, 1940–1970, which examines how international publishing firms directed their energies toward Latin America, what kinds of strategies they employed, and which areas they targeted as they began to enter the market and forge collaborative alliances; it also identifies the kinds of materials that these firms supplied, again driven primarily by market considerations. Generally speaking, this digital work has revealed not only the intricate global circuits of conversations and collaboration that blossomed during this time, but also an archive of metadata about the physical aspects of the documents that link all of the involved intellectuals, from writers and translators, to artists and agents.