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 history, 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.