Overview
Tabaré is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Cornell University, specializing in contemporary Latin American cultural production at the intersection of history and environmental change.
His doctoral dissertation, Remolinos en el tiempo: Water and Temporality in 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production, investigates how diverse modern water crises—including desiccation, contamination, and privatization—disrupt and reshape the flow of temporality. Working through the theoretical lenses of hydrocriticism and spectral theory, his research examines how contemporary poetry, narrative fiction, and cinema formally and thematically engage with environmental history.
Tabaré received a B.A. in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before joining Cornell, he worked as an editor for the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Beyond his scholarly research, Tabaré is a creative writer. In 2025, he published the short story collection Las ofrendas azules with Dharma Books, a prominent independent publishing house in Mexico.
Courses taught
SPAN 2230: Perspectives on Spain (in English)
SPAN 2090: Intermediate Spanish (Composition and Conversation)
SPAN 1230: Continuing Spanish
SPAN 1220: Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 1210: Elementary Spanish I
Research Focus
Contemporary Latin American Literature & Culture, Environmental Humanities, Hydrocriticism, Spectral Theory, Environmental History.
Publications
Academic
“Un umbral de sombra: animalizaciones de lo humano y horror biopolítico en Cadáver exquisito, de Agustina Bazterrica”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, forthcoming.
Fiction
Las ofrendas azules. Dharma Books, 2025.