Welcome to my web site.  I am currently a Lecturer in the Committe on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard University.  I hold a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  My research interests include twentieth-century Latin American, North American, French and Francophone literatures, modern poetry and poetics, exile studies, torture, philosophies of space and place, and translation studies.  My current book project, Mapping Disappearance: Representing the Absent in Modern Argentine Fiction, examines the appearance of disappearance as an inter-related aesthetic and political category in twentieth-century Argentine literature.