My book manuscript tentatively entitled “Coexisting with the Elements,” interrogates the ecopolitical significance of air, fire, water, and earth within Chile’s post-1973 context. I deploy these figures to oppose the dictatorship’s uses and abuses of nature and its neoliberal counterpart, natural resources. My project claims that just as manmade impact on the planet can be read in rocks, ice cores, and ocean sedimentation, the elements, too, contain the complex imbrication of memory, history, and politics. What I call elemental art proposes new ethical relations with the more-than-human world erased by Chile’s politics of oblivion.

I am interested in ecosophy (feminist, Indigenous, and nonbinary), materialist theories (old and new), phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and memory theories.  I write and publish about memory, feminist theory, women’s art, and ecology. I teach about Abya Yala’s literatures and cultures from all these diverse perspectives. I am currently teaching a class on waste and putrefaction.