Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh. Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature. My current research focuses on the historical redefinition and ideological values of cannibalism as a shifting cultural metaphor, in constructing and contesting Latin American identities throughout various stages of its cultural history. One of the main problems addressed is how the metaphor of cannibalism, the "conceptual character" of Caliban and the trope of consumption, have been articulated with experiences of colonialism and (neo)colonialism,  appropriation of cultural difference, hybrid identity construction, and with the rising criticism of the global market and consumerism in Latin America.

I am co-editor of the collection of essays Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana that will be published by the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana-IILI (Forthcoming, 2002). In addition, I am co-editing with Enrique Dussel and Mabel Moraña a volume on the postcolonial debate in Latin America (Forthcoming, 2003) as well as an anthology of the Latin-American contra-colonial thought (Forthcoming, 2004). My articles have appeared in journals such as Revista Ibeoramericana, Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Hispanic Issues, and Revista de Estudios Colombianos.

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