My interests are focused on the relationship between culture and political communities in Latin America. My early research focused on urban imaginaries of Buenos Aires between the 1960s and the early 2000s. More recently, I have worked extensively on Latin American comics, particularly on comics produced post-2005, and on those that include depictions of racialized identities from the mid-twentieth century to the present. I have also published articles on Latin American photography, and on visual depictions of Ernesto Che Guevara.

I am Professor of Latin American Studies in the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. I am currently Associate Director of Research - CIDRAL (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages). Between 2014-2019 I was Co-Director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

My research focuses on culture and political communities in Latin America, specifically on urban imaginaries (particularly those of Buenos Aires), and on Latin American visual culture, especially photography and comics.

Between 2021-2024 I was the principal investigator on a 3-year AHRC-funded project entitled Comics and Race in Latin America (co-I, Prof. Peter Wade). Between 2016-2019 I was the principal investigator of the international network Comics and the Latin American City, funded by The Leverhulme Trust.

I am the author of two books, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame (Texas, 2024), which was selected as the co-winner of the 2025 MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for 'outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures', as well as an Honorable Mention for the Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize in 2025, and City in Common: Culture and Community in Buenos Aires (SUNY, 2016). I am also the editor of Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America (UCL, 2020) and co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America (Pittsburgh, 2017) (also available in Spanish as Cómics y memoria en América Latina (Cátedra, 2019)), and Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (University of London, 2019).

I currently contribute to the following units:

SPLA10410 Cultures of the Hispanic World

SPLA10420 Themes in Spanish and Latin American Studies

SPLA20872 Culture and the Cold War in Latin America

SPLA30000 Dissertation (Spanish)

SPLA31091 The Politics of Business in Latin America

SPLA51060 Spanish Language 6