Spanish and Portuguese scholar with a presentable history of working in the higher education industry. Bilingual English-Spanish with skills in Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese. Award winning instructor and researcher.

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I have received broad, interdisciplinary training through seminars that span the Hispanophone and Lusophone worlds––from Spain and Portugal to Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Afro-Hispanic diaspora, and the Caribbean––engaging a wide range of genres and literary movements. In addition, I have completed coursework in diaspora studies, film studies, translation theory, and cultural studies, as well as language training in Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian.

I am currently working in my innovative project, which debunks myths about Asian passivity and unilateral cultural transfer from West to East. I am in the academic world to do collaborative humanities work across Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Critical Theory Studies, Colonial and Decolonial Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese literatures.

My linguistic and cultural competence in Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, and Chinese languages is rare in academia, and it is rarer still for a Latino with no Chinese parentage to study and conduct research on early modern Spanish and Portuguese Asia.