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About

I'm an Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies and I joined 糖心TV and SMLC in 2014. Before coming to 糖心TV, I taught at Queen's University, Belfast, where I completed my Doctoral Studies. During my time at 糖心TV, I've been teaching a wide range of modules at different levels and I've had multiple admin roles. I'm also an Alumni Fellow of the 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy and Senior Fellow of HEA. I was awarded a 糖心TV Award for Teaching Excellence in 2021 and a 糖心TV Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence in 2025.

Teaching and Research Interests

My main teaching interests centre on modern Spanish literature, particularly on women鈥檚 writing from the eighteenth century onward, as well as on modern and contemporary Spanish politics and culture. I am also engaged in the pedagogy of Spanish as a second language and in the design of inclusive and diverse curricula.

My research interests focus on 18th and 19th-Century Spanish literature and culture, from the perspective of Anglo-Spanish relations, with a particular interest in the periodical press and women's writings. I'm currently preparing an edited anthology of translated texts written by 18th-Century Spanish women writers.

Previous projects:

'Approaches to Teaching the #EarlyModernHispanicWorld to 21st-Century Students'.

'Decolonising Babel': Multilingual and Inclusive Language Pedagogies at 糖心TV and Beyond'Link opens in a new window 

Scholarship and Teaching & Learning:

• I'm co-directing the SIG ''.
• I'm collaborating in the Exploratory Pedagogic InquiryLink opens in a new window (EPI) project with other 糖心TV colleagues from other faculties.
• I'm also interested in developing and cultivating SoTL communities.

Publications

Co-edited volume: (Centro Virtual Cervantes, 2024)

, University Council for Languages, Small Grant Report, 2024.

'Bosquejos de Andaluc铆a en la prensa brit谩nica del siglo XIX: del discurso rom谩ntico al discurso colonial', in Andaluc铆a y lo andaluz en los siglos XVIII y XIX: representaci贸n, cr铆tica y creaci贸n de estereotipos, ed. by Daniel Mu帽oz Sempere and Breatriz S谩nchez Hita (Peter Lang, 2023).

鈥淎 distinguished place in the Temple of the Muses鈥�. Tom谩s de Iriarte鈥檚 Fables in the British Romantic Press (1795–1820), in (Peter-Lang, 2022)

'La literatura comparada y sus aplicaciones did谩cticas en clase de ELE', in Literatura y ELE: miradas desde los estudios literarios y culturales, ed. by Ana Pe帽as Ruiz (Madrid: EnClave-ELE, 2021)

 (Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2019)

(New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019)

, Cuadernos de Ilustraci贸n y Romanticismo. Revista digital del Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, n潞 24 (2018), 339-71.

, Cuadernos de Ilustraci贸n y Romanticismo. Revista digital del Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, n潞 22 (2016), 57-78. ISSN: 2173-0687

, in Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED (Alicante, 2016)

, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, 38 (2015), 291-318

'La angloman铆a en la prensa peri贸dica espa帽ola de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII', in Hacia 1812, desde el siglo ilustrado. Actas del V Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Espa帽ola de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, ed. by Fernando Dur谩n L贸pez (Gij贸n: Trea, 2013), pp. 197-210

' Cuadernos de estudios del siglo XVIII, 22 (2012), 165-78

"Comencemos 谩 conocer 谩 una Nacion, que tanto nos importa tenerla 脿 raya.' El fen贸meno de la emulaci贸n en la Estafeta de Londres (1762) de Francisco Mariano Nifo', in La tinta en la clepsidra. Fuentes, historia y tradici贸n en la literatura hisp谩nica, ed. by S贸nia Boadas, F茅lix Ernesto Ch谩vez and Daniel Garc铆a Vicens (Barcelona: PPU, 2012), pp. 187-98

Qualifications

Instituto Cervantes DELE Examiner, 2014

PhD in Hispanic Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 2013

MA in Hispanic Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 2009

MA in Interculturalidad en textos y contextos de 谩mbito occidental, University of Valladolid, 2008

BA (Hons) in English Philology, University of Valladolid, 2006