Research

Research Interests

Spanish life-writing: diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, correspondence
Queer studies
Medical humanities: illness and stigma
Colonialism and postcolonialism in Hispanic and Portuguese contemporary literature
Psychoanalytic approaches to literature.
Catalan literature
Portuguese literature
Comparative literature
Translation studies: queer translation, feminism and translation, poetry
Second language acquisition and pedagogy

Conference Papers

“La esquizofrenia quiere decir 'nada': Leopoldo María Panero, enfermedad y escritura autobiografica“, conferencia Marginados y malditos en la literatura contemporánea, Astorga, 2024.

“Queer ghosts: archaeology of a silence”, paper at the symposium Sexual Dissidence in Spanish History, University of Leeds, 2024.

“Reinaldo Arenas and Jaime Gil de Biedma: AIDS in life-writing across the Atlantic“, annual conference for the Society of Latin American Studies, 2023.

“Queering tuberculosis: Jaime Gil de Biedma and the antibourgeois illness“, International Conference on Medical Humanities, Birkbeck University of London, 2023

“The Camp and the Dandy: Class, Sexuality, and Desire in Gil de Biedma’s Diaries“, AHGBI Annual Conference, April 2022.

“A fundamental feeling of strangeness: movement, cosmopolitanism and colonialism in Jaime Gil de Biedma’s diaries“, MIDEX Seminars, February 2022.

Conferences

Symposium Sexual Dissidence in Spanish History, University of Leeds, 2024, organized with Richard Cleminson.

Public Engagement

Presentation: “A diary to precipitate events: sex and sexuality in David Vilaseca’s and Jaime Gil de Biedma’s diaries” at the 4th Festival of Queer Literature in Spanish in London at the Instituto Cervantes (London).

Presentation: “A diary to precipitate events: sex and sexuality in David Vilaseca’s and Jaime Gil de Biedma’s diaries” at the 4th Festival of Queer Literature in Spanish in London at the Instituto Cervantes (London).

Leader of the Spanish Book Club at Instituto Cervantes Leeds (2020–2022)

“In Conversation with Eduardo Mendicutti“, Instituto Cervantes, 2021

“Los diarios de Jaime Gil de Biedma con Álvaro González y Andreu Jaume“, Instituto Cervantes, 2020