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• Latin American literary, cultural and audiovisual studies
• Latin American feminisms, human rights and women’s cultural activism
• Diamela Eltit and Chilean post-dictatorship fiction
• Political imaginaries, active archives, authoritarian/neoliberal continuities and transnational cultural circulation
• Law, technology, rights and culture in comparative and transnational contexts
• Artificial intelligence, digital governance and technology-mediated professional practice
• Translation, subtitling, accessibility and cross-cultural mediation
• Digital humanities, audiovisual methods and practice-based research
• Transnational research partnerships across Europe and Latin America

Research

My research examines the politics of fiction, archives, audiovisual culture and technological mediation in Latin America and across transnational contexts. I am particularly interested in how cultural forms, bodies, technologies and institutions shape questions of political agency, representation, visibility, rights and social transformation.
My established work focuses on Latin American cultural studies, political imaginaries, memory, feminist cultural production and the work of Diamela Eltit. I am currently developing this research through the concepts of active archive, political circulation and neoliberal foreclosure, examining how cultural and political forms are inscribed, transmitted and reactivated across media, historical periods and geographical contexts.
Alongside this work, I am developing an interdisciplinary socio-legal research strand on law, technology, rights and culture in comparative and transnational contexts. This research explores how emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, are reshaping cultural production, professional practice, authorship, human agency and the governance of cultural and linguistic circulation.
My continuing work on Diamela Eltit extends these questions to the relationship between embodiment, cultural production and artificial intelligence. Through audiovisual and practice-based research, I am exploring how AI alters the conditions under which bodies, voices, images and cultural traces are produced, represented, circulated and reactivated.
Before entering academia, I worked for nearly a decade at the Gender Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), where I contributed to research on gender equality, the status of women in Latin American societies, and women’s rights as human rights. This experience continues to shape my interdisciplinary research, particularly my interest in the relationship between culture, institutions, rights and social transformation, and provides an important foundation for my emerging socio-legal work on technology, human agency, equality, representation and governance.

Current research and international collaboration
I am currently developing a transnational research agenda around active archives, political imaginaries, cultural circulation and technological mediation across Europe and Latin America.
This work is supported by a British Academy Pump Priming Collaboration award, Revolution Through Her Voice: Transnational Dialogues on Women’s Cultural Resistance, which is contributing to the development of a Horizon Europe consortium on the safeguarding and transmission of intangible cultural heritage.
The project brings together universities, cultural organisations, artists and audiovisual practitioners to examine how cultural and political forms travel across media, languages and national contexts. A growing strand of this research examines the rights and governance questions raised by such circulation, including authorship, consent, cultural and linguistic mediation, translation and subtitling, accessibility, digital reuse, data governance and the implications of artificial intelligence for cultural production and transmission.
I am particularly interested in translation, subtitling and accessibility as forms of cultural mediation through which cultural materials move not only between languages, but also between communities, institutions and regulatory contexts.