Zorimar Rivera Montes is the Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University. She teaches Puerto Rican and Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the English and Spanish & Portuguese departments. Her research focuses on Puerto Rican cultural texts under the combined forces of neoliberalism and coloniality, studying the impacts of colonial neoliberalism on aesthetic products. Her interests include Latinx studies, contemporary Latinx literature and popular culture in relation to migration, diaspora, colonialism, labor and late capitalism in popular culture. Her forthcoming book manuscript, Against Resilience: Puerto Rican Culture and Late Capitalism, examines aesthetic refusals to the drive towards production and resilience during the past two decades.