I am an Assistant Professor at St. Kate's in the department of Literature, Language and Writing, also affiliated to the Women's Studies Program. 

I am originally from Lima, Peru, where I studied Literature. I graduated from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMS) with a dissertation about the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela. I continued with the study of poetry among Peruvian female poets from 1980's generation in comparative research with Mexican female poets of the same generation. I graduated from El Colegio de Mexico (Colmex) with a dissertation about Coral Bracho and Rocío Silva Santisteban. I had the opportunity to add more female poets to the comparative study during a year at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The study of poetry diversified into the study of performance art when I discovered Regina José Galindo.

My doctoral dissertation focus on the representation of sexual violence in the poetry of Rocío Silva Santisteban and performance art of Regina José Galindo. In a broad way, my scholarship tries to answer the question How to represent violence without reinforcing it?