I am a scholar of Latin American cultural studies. Before joining Brasenose, my academic career included teaching and research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Brooklyn College and King’s College London, where I most recently held a Leverhulme-funded post in Latin American Cultural Studies and Spanish Language. Alongside my academic work, I have sought to make language education and cultural heritage more accessible beyond the university: I taught Spanish to refugee-background women in Barcelona and developed a digitisation project on the Anglican missionary school in Cholchol, which was shortlisted for the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. My research explores Protestant women’s cultural production in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americas, with interests in manuscript culture, evangelical women’s periodicals, and the connections between scientific writing, Christian feminisms and Indigenous identities. My research has included funded stays at the New York Public Library, Wright Library (Princeton) and the Newberry Library (Chicago), and has culminated in my first monograph, Dissident Scribes: Literary Education and the Spiritual Legacies of Protestant Missionary Women in the Americas (1848–1939). I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s, where I am completing the manuscript.

I am a Lecturer in Spanish at Balliol and Brasenose Colleges, where I teach Spanish language and literature.

I teach the full Prelims course for students in Spanish at Brasenose and Balliol, as well as FHS Papers I, II, XIV, and all Spanish American options for Papers VIII and XI.

What I value about teaching Spanish is the opportunity to bring language, literature and culture into dialogue, and to ask students to think critically about the assumptions that shape how languages and cultures are understood. In my teaching, I have particularly sought to broaden students’ understanding of the Spanish-speaking world beyond national and Eurocentric frameworks, bringing in perspectives shaped by colonialism, migration and cultural difference. Oxford’s tutorial system is especially well suited to this kind of teaching. Working with students in small groups over a sustained period allows me to follow their particular interests, challenge their readings and help them build arguments of their own. I see the tutorial as a space where students become contributors to knowledge, rather than simply recipients of it. At Brasenose, my aim is to help students recognise that what the texts we read present as fixed often conceals specific forms of power, shaped by particular historical contexts, and that language itself can be a source of empowerment.

My first book project, Dissident Scribes: Literary Education and the Spiritual Legacies of Protestant Missionary Women in the Americas (1848–1939), offers the first study of women’s missionary writing in Latin America. It reappraises travel writing as a site of spiritual intimacy and feminist critique, rather than solely as an expression of imperial authority, and uncovers a transatlantic network of women whose domestic writings shaped debates on egalitarian priesthood, religious liberty and modernity. My current research examines the role of Methodist women educators in the modernisation of Chile. One strand explores the vocabulary of pleasure as a way of articulating ideals of sexual purity in the first novel written in English by a Chilean student, forming the basis of a chapter currently in press with Routledge. A second examines the paradoxes of Christian feminism in Chilean discussions of food and nutrition, where hygienist ideas about women’s bodies and domestic life intersected with anti-Nazi positions during the period of the Spanish Civil War and the wider political crisis of the 1930s. This research brings together Modern Languages, Religious Studies and English, and has led to invited talks and collaborative initiatives in Europe, the United States and Chile.