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I am a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer focusing on comparative literature and climate crisis representation. I currently hold the position of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University.

I have taught and been a fellow at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the University of Granada, El Colegio de México, and Waseda University.

I am member of the research groups Post-MESH Lab, GRESOL-UOC, GREGAL-UAB, STAND-UGR, and TRAMEVIC-UV; and editor and co-founder of Asiademica: Open Journal of East Asian Studies.

Read about my current research project called Disaster Distortion: Climate Crisis Representation in Contemporary Transpacific Literature.

Listen to the companion podcast Disasters Maybe here for audio only and here with video.

Latest publications

(2026) Care as resistance and care as hope: ecocritical affect in Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary and Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime, Japan Forum, 38(3), 386–407 https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2026.2625763

(2026) A Gentle Extinction: Interspecies Care and Deep Time in Speculative Fiction, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isag031, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isag031

(2026) Romantic Individualism and Reactionary Care in Speculative Environmental Fiction, Humanities, 15(7): 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/h15070083

(2026) Promoting resistant reading in university classrooms: Teaching resources and methodologies. OCNOS: Journal of Reading Research, 25:(1), https://doi.org/10.18239/ocnos_2026.25.1.560

Latest lectures

“Climate Change, Sterility Dystopias, and Imagining a Future Beyond Generational Anxieties,” invited talk, Rethinking Population Ageing: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Pompeu Fabra University, June 19, 2026.

“Orbiting or Eluding a Breaking Point: Temporal Strategies in Contemporary Disaster Fiction,” 41st ISSN Conference, Aarhus University, June 5, 2026.

“Extractivist Form: Narrative Strategies and Distorted Care in Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron,” ‘Join the Orca Uprising!’ Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice (11th Biennial EASLCE Conference), April 15, 2026.

“A Gentle Extinction: Disasters and Nonhegemonic Care in Kawakami Hiromi’s Under the Eye of the Big Bird,” Queer Ecologies and the Temporal Imagination, University of Tübingen, February 27, 2026.