My research focuses on modern representations of the peasantry in the cultural production of Habsburg' Spain (16th-18th centuries). I am interested in courtly depictions of the countryside and its dwellers, migratory flows, urban poverty, and the conception of public office, and its ideological implications on the literary level.

My dissertation seeks to analyze the political and historical aspects underpinning pastoral literature and the concealment of agrarian popular classes, and the cultural consequences of the aristocratic abduction of public space, among other issues.

I earned my B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature and my M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain). Before joining Temple University, I was awarded an Erasmus+ grant in Germany, where I completed my Master’s practicum at the Friedrich Alexander Universität. After I graduated, I taught preparatory courses for the language test of the Spanish citizenship exam, and I also taught Spanish for international researchers at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química, in Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Faculty Advisor: Víctor Pueyo-Zoco