I am specialized in performing arts aesthetics and cultural memory studies. My current interests focus, on one hand, on exploring and fostering the relationship between activism and academic institutions in Latin American and Europe, strengthening a cooperation between both regions that is mutually beneficial, and, on the other hand, on delving into research-creation, applied arts and community building methodologies for the societal transformation.
We need to understand in a dialogical mode the relationship between systematic education and social change. This paraphrase of Paulo Freire’s words in Pedagogy of the Oppressed inspires me in my own continuous learning as a teacher and researcher. What is teaching if not the activation of students’ transformative skills? What is learning if not the activation of our own transformative skills? I am Associate professor in Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Culture, Media and Society at the Department of German and Romance Languages, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University (AU), and teach in close collaboration with students, researchers, and civil society stakeholders in the following areas: Spanish Literature and Language; Performing Arts; Applied Arts; Cultural Studies; Latin America; Cultural memory; Climate storytelling.
I have extensive experience in working in international research groups and conducting transdisciplinary research. Currently I am work package leader in the EU-research project Transforming Migration through the ARTS (TransMigrARTS), member of the international research group PERFORMA - Theatre Outside Theatre. Contemporary Performativity in the Digital Era, leader of Latin American AU research center and co-coordinator of AU research unit Postcolonial Entanglements.
