Summary Statement of Research Interests

• Within Latin American and theological discourses, my work seeks to explore the social, existential, and embodied representations of queer subjects in Spanish and Latin American literary, visual, and performance arts; that is, bodies that resist the normative trajectories of socio-politically accepted sexualities. Accordingly, I am interested in questions of identity formation, cultural production, discursive representations of sexuality, and how these representations may function as religious and spiritual practice. Attending to intersections, my work proposes to reflect critically on sexualized bodies within Hispanic and Latino/a literary and cultural arts as a site of ethical discourse with particular attention to the ways in which moral philosophy, intersectional analysis, queer theory, and borderland theory, each in conversation with critical spatial theories, to extend and productively complicate the disciplines of Spanish and Latin American studies. To do such work, I explore Spanish and Latino/a literary, visual, and cultural arts as an archive of religious and queer themes; examine religious and political influences on gender and sexuality in Spain and Latin America; and finally draw on my background in liberation and queer theologies as a reflective framework in conversation with language, literature, and cultural studies.