I’m a researcher in philosophy, film programmer, and visual artist; I’m originally from the U.S. and a naturalized Mexican citizen. I currently hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship with the Aresmur research group in aesthetics and art theory at the University of Murcia in Spain, undertaking the research project “Materialism and Geographic Specificity in the Philosophy of Film” (2024-26). From 2018-2020 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and just prior to that I completed my PhD in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University.
I have published on different figures in aesthetics, social philosophy, psychoanalysis, and related topics, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Simmel, Melanie Klein, Annette Michelson, Richard Wollheim, and Stanley Cavell, as well as on philosophical themes related to Latin American (especially Mexican) and experimental cinema.
I’m a member of the Oaxaca, Mexico-based film exhibition and programming collective Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU). I have curated film programs at the (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in Coruña, Spain, the RPM Festival in Boston, Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional and Centro de Cultura Digital, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y de las Culturas Oaxaqueñas (MACCO), in addition to co-curating programs and exhibitions at the Cámara Lúcida festival in Cuenca, Ecuador, Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, and Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film and Video.
My writings on film and media have appeared in October, Screen, Millennium Film Journal, The Baffler, Desistfilm, Los Experimentos, and NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, among other places, in addition to co-authored pieces in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and La Furia Umana. In 2025 I co-edited with Jiří Anger a special issue of Iluminace: The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics on the topic “Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity.” Some of my writings on philosophy, film, and aesthetics are available here.
My drawings and paintings have been included in exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, and the U.S., and belong to private collections in Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, New Dehli, New York, and San Francisco. A selection of my art is available here.