Academic

Academic Work

My research centers on the intersections of literature, language, and thought, with particular attention to the philosophical, spiritual, and mystical dimensions of narrative. Interdisciplinary and comparative in scope, it draws on literary theory, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies. Selected papers and essays are included below.

Remedios Varo, *Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista*, 1960

Paul Rumsey, *Danse Macabre Series*, n.d.

The Dance of Love and Death: The Inseparability of the Erotic and the Macabre in Carlos Fuentes

Completed in Fall 2021 through the Merrill Scholarship and Merrill Scholar Award, this thesis examines Carlos Fuentes’s fiction through philosophical and psychoanalytic frameworks. Focusing on the convergence of erotic desire and mortality, it traces the interplay of Eros and Thanatos, gothic and macabre motifs, and the sacrificial dimensions of love in Fuentes’s existential and metaphysical imagination.

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