Occupation
Assistant Professor & Digital Scholarship Librarian
Scholars’ Collaborative,
John C. Hodges Library
University of Tennesse, Knoxville
Education
2016-2022
PhD. Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures
University of Texas, Austin
2013-2016
M.A. Literatura Comparada
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
2011-2012
M.A. Literaturas Hispánicas
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Publications
Journals
2021
“Navigating the Mise-en-Page: Interpretive Machine Learning Approaches to the Visual Layouts of Multi-Ethnic Periodicals”, Proceedings of the Computing Humanities Research Conference 2021. Co-authored with Sarah Salter, Benjamin Lee, and Jim Casey.
Public Humanities
2021
“Sparking the Datamagination: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part 2”, The Signal, Library of Congress, co-authored with Maria Capecchi and Abigail Tick
“Unearthing Brazilian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Abolitionism in 19th Century US Press”, U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage University of Houston
2020 “Reimagining Searching in Chronicling America”, Division of Preservation and Access Blog, National Endowment for the Humanities
“Title Essays, Linked Data, and the Ethnic Press in Chronicling America”, Division of Preservation and Access Blog, National Endowment for the Humanities
“Introducción a ImagePlot y la visualización de metadatos de colecciones de Imágenes”, The Programming Historian en Español 4
Invited Talks
2021 “Computational Periodical Studies in the Multiethnic Press”, sponsored by the Honors Program Speaker Series, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
2020
“Title Essays and the Ethnic Press in Chronicling America”, presented as part of the panel discussion “Seeing Editors: Metadata, Machine Learning, and the Shapes of Social Justice”, sponsored by the National Digital Newspaper Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Library of Congress.
“Programming Historian: trabajo multilingüe e implicaciones disciplinarias en las humanidades digitales”, 1era Jornada de Humanidades Digitais, Laboratório em Rede de Humanidades Digitais - LARHUD, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia.
Conference Papers
2022
“A Computational Periodicals Unconference: Exploring New Opportunities for Critical and Collaborative Inquiry”, co-organized with Dr. Jim Casey, Dr. Sarah Salter, and Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, DH Unbound 2022. Sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities.
2021
“Visualizing Abolition in 19th Century U.S. Immigrant Press”, Digital Humanities Summer Institute Conference and Colloquium, University of Victoria, Canada.
2019
“Digital Pedagogy and Methodology to Connect Diverse Communities”, Digital Frontiers, UT Austin.
“La lógica del empeño en la reescritura del imaginario nacional en ‘La mucama de Omicunlé’”, XXXVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Latin American Studies Association.
“Cuerpos empeñados y presentes precarios en la literatura de Rita Indiana”, XXXVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Latin American Studies Association, Special section organizer and chair.
2018
“Los abolicionismos de expatriados en O Novo Mundo y El Mundo Nuevo/La América Ilustrada”, XXXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Latin American Studies Association.
Awards
2020-2021 “Unearthing Brazilian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Abolitionism in 19th Century US Press”, Grant-in-Aid, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Program, University of Houston
2020-2021 Graduate School Thematic Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin.
2018 Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Last updated: August 2022