I’m a doctoral candidate at Yale University specializing in contemporary Luso-Brazilian cultural production, with a focus on how empire, gender, and migration interact with the written and material cultures of Africa and Asia. Trained as a comparatist and literary historian, my research charts the making and unmaking of identity across the Afro-Luso-Brazilian world.

My dissertation, The Edge: Reading the Indo-Pacific, examines how contemporary fictions from Mozambique, Goa, Macau, and East Timor, often viewed as peripheral, reorient world literature. Through close readings of texts, visual materials, and state archives produced in the decades surrounding decolonization, I show how Indo-Pacific authors defined new ways to read and write literature in the wake of empire. This project is among the first to assemble and theorize a postcolonial corpus that places these communities at the center of a new global identity in Portuguese.

Recent peer-reviewed articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of Lusophone Studies, BRASIL/BRAZIL, and estrema: revista interdisciplinar de humanidades, among others. I have written reviews on contemporary poetry and critical scholarship for Colóquio/Letras, Comparative Literature, and Asia/América Latina, and am a regular contributor to Pessoa Plural, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Fernando Pessoa. 

In addition to my scholarly work, I’m passionate about educational development and pedagogy. I’m a current co-Coordinator of the McDougal Graduate Fellows at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, and editor of a new resource for first-time teachers, the Teaching How-To. Before Yale, I spent three years as an educator at international schools in Lisbon, Portugal. 

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