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I currently work at Villanova University. My research interests include history of concepts, Latin American culture, performance, emotions, and intellectual history. My current study of emotions borrows from my work and research in the field of theater. In addition to being a scholar, I am also a performer. I have trained in corporeal mime technique both in New York and Paris, and I hold an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. While in NYC, I collaborated with La Micro Theater.

I am always creating, researching and volunteering. At the moment, I volunteer at El Taller Puertorriqueño, an organization that uses art to promote development within its community and the Latino Diaspora. I am also in El Taller's Board of Directors.

My previous research includes topics such as: the relationship of the Argentinean comic strip Mafalda to social and avant-garde discourses; performance and voting rights in New York at the time of presidential elections (2008) (2012); representations of the rights of Latino illegal immigrants in New York; emotional dispositions in the novels of the Mexican revolution; the valence of mad love in the photo-text Soul’s Infarct by Diamela Eltit and Paz Errázuriz; nostalgia and Variedades de Galiano by Reina María Rodríguez and studies of contemporary Romanian dancer Manuel Pelmus and Nicaraguan digital-traditional artist Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga.