I am interested in twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural histories, literatures and visual cultures of Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. My studies involve environmental issues, Amazonian cultural production, Indigenous arts, and translation studies.

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I am currently the director of the Centre of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILSC) at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, where I also work as a Lecturer. In addition, I am a researcher affiliated with the Amazon Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, where I was previously a von der Heyden Fellow, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Prior to joining the University of London, I worked as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester as part of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America, funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo, where I also received a PhD in English. I was a visiting researcher in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, and a teaching assistant at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo. I have also collaborated with the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. 

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Besides my engagement in teaching and research, my work as a translator specialising in the Humanities and Social Sciences led me to translate books and essays by Ailton Krenak, Marilyn Strathern, Alfred Gell, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Judith Butler and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, among others.