Research Interests: Nationalism; subaltern studies; postmarxism; representation; transgression, entrepreneurialism; biopolitics; psychoanalysis; film and visual studies.

Dissertation: Beyond Criminality: piracy and transformativity in Lima's informal markets.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

• The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. Tinker Fellowship (Summer research funding). University of California Davis (2013)
• Provost’s Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2012-2013. University of California, Davis (2012)
• Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. Cultural Studies Network. Latin-American council of Social Sciences (2010)

Education: 

• B.A. in Social Sciences with mention in Sociology. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. PUCP, Lima, 2002
• M.A. in Cultural Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. PUCP, Lima, 2011

Publications:

• 2013 «Entre viejos patrones y nuevos gerentes: remanentes simbólicos y nuevos regímenes de verdad en el Per'u Contempor'aneo. En: Sombras coloniales y globalización en el Perú de hoy. Red para el desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Peru. Lima
• 2012 «The Saw franchise, a conservative restoration in the modern horror film» In: «The world behind the screen» Network for the development of Social Sciences. Lima.