Emma is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature. She works between film and literature, and Spanish, English, and Portuguese, with a focus on Latin America. Before coming to Berkeley, she worked at Safe Passage Project, an immigration justice organization based in New York City.
Emmais a literary translator whose translation work ranges from crónicas, poetry, oral testimonies, and occasionally film subtitles. She is the translator of Guardianas: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade (APRA), a collection of testimonies from midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the Salvadoran Civil War and continue this work under repressive conditions today (Seven Stories Press 2025, compiled and edited by Noemí Delgado). Her translation of Pedro Lemebel’s De perlas y cicatrices (Of Pearls and Scars) won a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.
She received her bachelor’s in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and she holds a master’s in Comparative Literature with a Certificate in Film and Media Cultures from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied postcolonial literature and film, queer turns, and uncanny doubles.
