Gaëlle is a writer, a literary scholar, and critic. She received an M.A. in Mexican Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her primary research focuses on two main areas: late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century transnational movements and contemporary forms of writing. Her work has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) at Yale University, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University, as well as the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Her new book Escrituras sin rostro (University of North Carolina, 2025) discusses the notions of antagonism and authorship in literature and politics in 21st-century Mexico.

She is the author of several books: Les émigrants, Otra es la casa, La isla más alta, Beirut o de la ruinas. She has been literary critic for the magazine Letras Libres since 2007. Before migrating to the United States, Gaëlle worked as an editor for cultural magazines such as Chilango, Dónde ir, Alógeno, Origina, and SAPerspectiva. In her editorial career, she published numerous writers and journalists who are now internationally recognized, including Álvaro Enrigue, Valeria Luiselli, Bernardo Fernández (BEF), Naief Yehya, Max Ehrsam, and Mael Vallejo, among others. When she’s not reading, writing, or grading, she enjoys long walks and spending time with her family.