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Degrees &  Honours:     

• MA Hons (University of Aberdeen)
• MA (King’s College London)
• PhD (King’s College London)

Awards & Prizes (selected):    

• LASA Book Prize, Best Book (Southern Cone Section) 2020
• Henry Moore Foundation Research Award
• British Academy Conference Award
• Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellowship
• El Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile (travel award)
• Institute of Fine Art, University of New York (travel award)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (doctoral award)

Research Interests:    

My main interest is Latin American visual art. I am particularly interested in Chilean and Colombian art. My current focus is the work of participatory needlework collectives (tejedoras) in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, which use quilts, appliqués and embroideries for memorialising or social justice purposes, or for reconciliation following conflict. I am also interested in the link between the material visual culture of textiles and the way images of textiles are currently used on the internet to form diasporas of solidarity.

My previous research was on the embroideries (arpilleras), papier-mâché sculptures and oil paintings created by the Chilean artist Violeta Parra (1917 – 1967) and this has led to two books, the edited volume (Tamesis, 2017) and the monograph (Palgrave, 2020).

I am also interested in the Latin American feminist wave; the iconography of human rights in Latin America; cultural theory; the decolonisation of art history; the Latin American ‘Boom’ of the 1960s, structural biases in art history, the translation of theatre and expanding the surrealist canon.

I welcome enquiries from students with interests in these areas.  

Biography:    

I am a Research Fellow in Latin American Art at �鶹Ƶ��. My degree was awarded by the University of Aberdeen and my PhD was awarded by King's College London. I have been an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and a sessional lecturer at King's College London. I am the Co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section (2022-2024) and on the executive committee of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (2019-2023). I am a graduate tutor at �鶹Ƶ��.

Teaching and Service

I teach in the History of Art Department and the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. I supervise and examine undergraduate students, postgraduate MPhil and PhD students working in the areas of Latin American visual culture, textile art or Surrealism.

I am the co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section (2022-2024) and a member of the executive committee of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS). I am a tutor at �鶹Ƶ�� and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  

Research Awards

My research has been supported by organisations such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, The Henry Moore Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust and the Institute of Fine Art at the University of New York.

I am a Research Fellow at �鶹Ƶ�� and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.