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I am Associate Professor in English Literature at the English and German Department (University of Granada, Spain) with 3 periods of six years on research (sexenios) recognized by the Ministry of Education (2002-2008, 2009-2014, 2015-2020). I teach courses on literary criticism and textual analysis, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century literature and Literature and Gender.

In 1998 I was awarded one of La Caixa and The British Council scholarships to undertake postgraduate studies in England. I completed a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies at Oxford University (1998-99). I was awarded my Ph.D. in 2003 with the special mention of Doctor Europeus. My doctoral dissertation was on Katherine Mansfield under the supervision of Dr. Adelina Sánchez Espinosa and the external supervision of Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College) and Jeri Johnson (Exeter College) during my research at Oxford University and Prof. Vincent O’Sullivan and Lydia Wevers during my research in New Zealand.

My research interests cover women writers, gender studies, community theory, New Zealand and Australian literature.

I have researched on late nineteenth-century and modernist women writers (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Zora Neale Hurston), contemporary women writers (Janet Frame, Carmel Bird, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, Sia FIgiel) and male writers like E.G.E. Bulwer-Lytton, James Joyce, Christopher Isherwood, Michael Cunningham, Raymond Carver or Witi Ihimaera from the perspective of gender and masculinity studies.

My current focus resides in the field of communitarian theory after four research projects (since 2010) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the latest one: Democracy, secrecy and dissidence in contemporary narrative in English.

I am a member of the research group Recepción, modos y géneros de la literatura inglesa (HUM592) of Granada University, and of the University Institute for Women and Gender Studies.