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She completed her MMus in Advanced Musical Studies at Royal Holloway College, University of London, in 2010, and her PhD at the University of Barcelona in 2012. She received the Early Music’s 2012 J. M. Thomson Prize, awarded to the best article in that year by an early career scholar (awarded article: “Women as dedicatees of artes de canto in the early modern Iberian world”) and the research prize of the Spanish Musicological Society (SEdeM) in 2013, which resulted in publication of the monograph Artes de canto en el mundo ibérico renacentista (2014). She has also published a number of works on convents, women, music of the Inquisition, music in early modern urban festivities, and traditional Spanish music in journals such as Music and Letters, Bulletin of Spanish Studies or Early Modern Women. She worked as a postdoctoral research assistant for the project ‘Urban musics and musical practices in sixteenth-century Europe’ (CIG-2012: URBANMUSICS no. 321876), funded by the Marie Curie Foundation and directed by Tess Knighton at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona, between March 2013 and November 2016. This project resulted in the publication of the collective volume Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2018), edited by Knighton and Mazuela. She was successful in Step 1 of the evaluation of the European Research Council Starting Grant 2016, being invited to an interview in Brussels, and received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence in 2017. From January to September 2017, she conducted a research stay at The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, after being awarded with the “Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection” (awarded project: “The Relationship Between the Alan Lomax Collection and the Collection of Spanish Traditional Music of the Institució Milà i Fontanals of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-IMF) in Barcelona (1944-1966)”). The most recent result of this research is the monograph Alan Lomax y Jeanette Bell en España (1952-1953): las grabaciones de música folclórica (2021). She has taught at the Universitat de Barcelona, the Universidad de Salamanca, the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and, from 2018 she works as an Associate Professor (tenured from August 2020) at the Music Department of the Universidad de Granada. She has recently published the monographs Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona (2023) and Música y discapacidad visual en el mundo hispa´nico del siglo XVI: el organista y compositor Antonio de Cabezón (2024), and has been distinguished as a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Granada.

Research topics: Early modern Hispanic music and culture, Gender studies, Women's music-making, Digital humanities, Early modern conventual music, Urban musicology, Hispanic traditional music, Database and GIS technologies applied to music research, Oral transmission of music

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Contribution to Women's Song Forum