Education

2015-2020

University of Miami

2005-2010

Universidad de las Artes

(Havana, Cuba)

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

Award of Academic Merit
Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Certificate in Digital Humanities

Dissertation: “Mediated Archipelagoes: Theater, Women, and Media”

Committee: Professors Lillian Manzor (Chair), Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Allison Schifani, Alexandra Perisic, Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)

B.F.A. in Theater Arts. Major in Playwriting (summa cum laude)

Work Experience

2022- present

2021- 2022

2020-2021 (Spring)

2016-2020

2020-2021

2017-2020

2018-2019

2015-2016

2012-2014

2010-2014

2009-2014

2007-2013

Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Latin American Studies
PLAS: Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University

Lecturer

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Department of Theatre Arts, University of Miami

Assistant Editor, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Adjunct Instructor

Department of Theatre Arts and Program in Latin American Studies, University of Miami

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Miami

Communications Assistant to the Sofía Ímber Collection

University of Miami Libraries

Assistant Editor

Latin American Research Review (LARR)

Graduate Research Assistant of Dr. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

UGrow Fellow in Digital Humanities

University of Miami Libraries

Graduate Assistant Editor

Cuban Theater Digital Archive, University of Miami

Research Assistant

Centro de Estudios del Diseño Escénico, Havana, Cuba

Assistant to the Dean of the Facultad de Arte Teatral

Universidad de las Artes,Havana, Cuba

Assistant Professor of Theater History

Universidad de las Artes.

Assistant Editor

Tablas (journal of Cuban theater), Havana, Cuba.

Editor of the section “En tablilla”

Tablas (journal of Cuban theater), Havana.

Awards and Grants

Extramural Awards

2020 MLA Travel Grant ($400)
2019 Goizueta Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($3,000)
American Society for Theater Research, ASTR Fellowship Award ($100)
2018 NEH Summer Institute on Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Georgia, June 17-29.
Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Award, American Society for Theater Research, ASTR ($800)
Winner of the 15th Annual Feministas Unidas Essay Award for Graduate Students
2017 Goizueta Foundation Graduate Pre-Prospectus Fellowship ($1,500)
2014 International Travel Grant, College Art Association (CAA) and Getty Foundation

University of Miami Awards

2021 Barrett Prize for Best Dissertation on a Latin American or Caribbean topic, awarded by the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas (UMIA).
2020 Research and Teaching Fellowship, Modern Languages and Literatures Department
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2019-2020, Modern Languages and Literature Department
2019 Robert E. Jednak Fellowship (to conduct research in Germany) ($7,000)
2019 University of Miami Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (Full stipend)
2018 U-MIA Field Research Grant for Graduate Students, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami ($2,000)
2018 Summer Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami ($5,000)

University of Miami Conference Travel Grants

Graduate Activity Fee Allocation Committee (GAFAC): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Max and Peggy Kriloff Graduate Student Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Playwriting and Directing Awards

2022 As Miamense As Possible Playwriting Award
2021 Finalist to Knight Arts Challenge Miami
2021 Accepted at the 2021 María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop, Latinx Theatre Commons. October 22-25, 2021.
2012 Honorable Mention for the direction of the play Entropía. Festival de Teatro Jove Elsinor, Havana, Cuba
Invited to the 9th Women Playwrights International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Honorable Mention for the play No hagas milagros por mí, V Premio de Teatro Latinoamericano George Woodyard, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Artist in Residency, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Germany
2010 Virgilio Piñera National Award for Playwriting for the play Museo

Conference Presentations

“Cuerpos teatrales caribeños: mediando el amor y la guerra”. Paper presented at the XLIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Athens, Greece. July 5-8 2023.
“Performative Pasts: Unearthing Colonial Bodies”. Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. Chicago, March 16-19, 2023.
“Estudios académicos, crítica y producción teatral: miradas hacia el futuro”. Paper presented at the As Miamense as Possible Symposium. Koubek Center, Miami February 18, 2023.
“Performing Tropicana: A Cabaret Revolution.” Paper presented at American Society for Theater Research (ASTR) 2020 and 2021 Conference (virtual session held in 2020, in person in San Diego in October 28-31, 2021).
“Between Memory and History: Cuban-American Theatrical Tropicanas.” Paper accepted at New Directions in Cuban Studies Conference 2021. Virtual, October 27-29, 2021.
“La Medea: Bending the Limits of the Theatrical and its Publics.” Paper presented at American Society for Theater Research (ASTR) 2019 Conference. Arlington, November 7-10, 2019.
“Trabajar para el inglés: teatro bufo y La Habana a fines del siglo XIX”. Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2019 Congress. Boston, May 24-27, 2019.
“Mediating Fear: Socialism, Post-socialism, and the Multiple Maps of Utopia.” Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. Washington DC, March 7-10, 2019.
“La escena teatral y el archivo: documentar y actuar la diáspora cubana”. Paper presented at Twelfth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Florida International University, Miami, Florida. February 14-15, 2019.
“Virtual Bodies and Archives in Caridad Svich's Antigone Arkhe.” Paper presented at American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR Forum) 2018. San Diego, November 15-18, 2018.
“Entre autoficción y documento: melancolía en el teatro de Alejandra Pizarnik y Lola Arias.” Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association 2018 Congress. Barcelona, May 23-26, 2018.
“Unsettling Creative Collaboration.” Paper presented at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Hemi Graduate Student Initiative (Hemi GSI) Convergence 2017. York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 5-8, 2017.
“Cuerpo femenino negro y el teatro de Fátima Patterson.” Paper presented at Reading Cuba. An Interdisciplinary Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Literature. Florida International University, Miami, Florida. November 9-10, 2016.
“Voces del Diseño: historia oral y prácticas archivísticas para las artes escénicas.” Paper presented at Humanidades Digitales: Construcciones locales en contextos globales. I Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales. Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 7-9, 2016.
“Teatralidad y picaresca en Rinconete y Cortadillo, de Miguel de Cervantes.” Paper presented at VI Congreso Internacional Cervantino “Cervantes en escena.” Sociedad Cervantina de Madrid, Spain. September 28-30, 2016
“Theatricality and picaresque in Rinconete y Cortadillo.” Paper presented at the X Florida Cervantes Symposium. University of Miami, Florida. March 18-19, 2016
“Black Woman in Cuban Theatre After the Revolution.” Paper presented at the Educational Program XXIX International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. Miami, Florida. July 11-13, 2014.
“A Defiant Look: Race in Cuban Art and Theater.” Paper presented at the 102nd College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois. February 11-16, 2014.
“Jóvenes directores teatrales cubanos.” Paper presented at the XVI Conferencia Científica del Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana. February 21-23, 2013.
“Muchas fuentes donde beber. Otras miradas sobre el mundo. Procesos de investigación y escritura dramática en la contemporaneidad.” Paper presented at the XV Conferencia Científica del Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana. March 28-30, 2011

Invited Lectures

“Archives of Repetition: Adapting Greek Heroines in the Digital Age”. Program in Latin American Studies Talk Series, Princeton University. March 1, 2023.
“Heterotopic Theaters: Mediating Archives of Failure”. University of Rostock, Rostock. July 4, 2019.
“Independent Theatre: New Strategies in the Cuban Theatrical Scene.” Colby College, Waterville, Maine. February 21, 2014.

Theater Directing Experience

La muñeca sin piernas. Casa Tomada, III Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas, Casa de las Américas, Cuba, September 2013.
El malo (by Dariusz Jez and Grzegorz Kondrasiuk). Stage Reading. Semana de Teatro Polaco, Ludwig Foundation, La Habana, April 2013.
Klara´s Anatomie. IV Semana de Teatro Alemán en Cuba, La Habana. Oct. 2010.
Entropía, IX Festival de Teatro Universitario of the University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, and 5th Semana de Teatro Alemán en Cuba. October 2012.