I’m a researcher in philosophy, film programmer, and visual artist originally from the U.S. and based in Mexico since 2017. From 2024 to 2026 I will 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.” 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 a variety of figures in aesthetics, social philosophy, psychoanalysis, and related topics, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Simmel, Melanie Klein, and Stanley Cavell, as well as on philosophical themes related to Latin American (especially Mexican) and experimental cinema.
I am a member of the Oaxaca, Mexico-based film exhibition and programming collective Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU), and I also collaborate in the management in Mexico City of the Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film and Video. Additionally, in Mexico I have been invited to speak on experimental film at the FICUNAM festival, the ULTRAcinema festival, and the Centro de Cultura Digital, and on documentary film at the Ambulante festival. My writings on film and media have appeared in Screen, Millenium Film Journal, The Baffler, Desistfilm, and Los Experimentos, among other places. Some of my writings on philosophy, film, and aesthetics are available here.
My drawings and paintings have been included in exhibitions in Mexico 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.