Chile. Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the author of Av. Independencia. Literatura, música e ideas de Chile disidente (2013); Memorias del nuevo siglo: jóvenes, trabajadores y artistas en la narrativa chilena reciente (2009), Diamela Eltit: redes locales y redes globales (ed.), and Leche amarga: violencia y erotismo en la narrativa chilena (2007). She has been a visiting professor and researcher at Georgetown University and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Cambridge. She is the director of the journal Taller de Letras at the Faculty of Letters of PUC and directs the Fondecyt project: “Hacer cantar la maravilla: plantas medicinales en la canción y poesía chilena.” She is currently writing the book Todas las hojas son del viento: viajes con Diamela Eltit and co-editing Adiós a las armas: masculinidades emergentes y en retirada with Catalina Forttes.