Javier (he/him) is a queer Latin American film scholar. He currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Research Fellowship at LLC. His research examines Latin American cinema through an interdisciplinary lens that brings together queer theory, decolonial thinking, and film studies. Javier's postdoctoral project, "From the Fringes to the Frame", examines the place of queerness in twenty-first-century Latin American documentary films. Javier holds a PhD in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Film and Film Cultures from the University of Leicester, and a BA in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). His writing has appeared in publications such as The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, and The Bulletin of Latin American Research, among others.