He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2010. His work focuses on Peruvian and Latin American cultural production and intellectual history of the twentieth century. He is the author of El intelectual y la cultura de masas: Argumentos latinoamericanos en torno a Ángel Rama y José María Arguedas (2016). His work has appeared in MLN, Discourse, Modern Notes, and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. He is currently working on a book-length project on intellectuals and cultural change in Peru during the 1940s and 1950s, of which this article forms part.