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RESEARCH INTEREST

I examine the inter-relation of foreign discourses on sexology, sex, sexuality in the creation of a national identity. My study offers a new critical understanding of the way that “Spanishness” has been defined in relation to the foreign and discourses on sex. It provides a new perspective through which to consider literary works interacting in a context of scientific advancement. My dissertation examines the role that translation, cultural reappropriation, and publishing play in the attempts to establish Spanish scientific authority, drawing on historical accounts of the history of sexology.

Peninsular literature
19th and 20th centuries
Gender studies
Studies on national identities
End of the century sexology

COURSES TAUGHT

At the University of Leeds, UK

  • Groups of intermediate-level students (B2 on the European scale). From October 2012 to May 2013.

As a Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois

  • SPAN 103, Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2014)

  • SPAN 122, Elementary Intensive Spanish (Summer 2015)

  • SPAN 141, Introduction to Spanish Grammar (Spring 2016)

  • SPAN 141 (online), Introduction to Spanish grammar (Summer 2020)

  • SPAN 204, Advanced Spanish Grammar (Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019)

  • SPAN 204 (online), Advanced Spanish Grammar (Summer 2017)

  • SPAN 208, Oral Spanish (Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

  • SPAN 228, Composition in Spanish (Fall 2016, Spring 2019, Fall 2019)

  • SPAN 232, Spanish in the Community (Fall 2017)

As Instructor of Record

  • SPAN 232, Spanish in the Community (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

  • BASQ 402, Readings on Basque Studies (Spring 2017)

  • Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP): Intermediate Spanish (Summer 2018)

  • Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP): Elementary Spanish (Summer 2019, Winter 2020)

EDUCATION

Degrees

  • PhD Candidate, Spanish Literature and Culture, University of Illinois (graduation expected May 2021)

    • Dissertation title: Science, Sex and the Foreign: Sexology and Representations of Sexualities in the Spanish Fin de Siglo

    • Director of the dissertation: dr. Joyce L. Tolliver

  • MA, Spanish, University of Illinois, USA, 2016

  • BA, Modern Languages, University of Deusto, Spain, 2014

  • University of Leeds, UK, 2012-13

Other courses

  • Understanding the MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO: An Online Course by MLA. January, 2020.

  • Researching Subject Areas in the MLA International Bibliography by MLA. January, 2020.

  • Spanish Didactics Course, Instituto Cervantes. October, 2013 to January, 2014.

  • Teamwork and leadership course of the Honors Program of the University of Deusto, from February, 2012 to June, 2012.

  • Basic childhood course, Cáritas Bizkaia in 2011.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Best Graduate Paper Award (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) 2018 for "La mujer 'Ford': la modernidad no deseada en La Venus mecánica (1929) de José Díaz Fernández".

  • Best Graduate Paper Award (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) 2016 for "Mujeres de maíz: el uso del maíz como instrumento de identidad femenina nacional en Cocina ecléctica (1890) de Juana Manuela Gorriti".

  • List of Teaches Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015 *, Spring 2016 *, Fall 2016 *, Spring 2017 *, Summer 2017, Fall 2017 *, Spring 2018 *, Fall 2018, Spring 2019 *, Fall 2019 *, Spring 2020 (*: outstanding classification).

  • Award for graduate students, International Association of Hispanic Female Literature and Culture (AILCFH), 2015.

  • Extraordinary End of Degree Award, 2014, University of Deusto.

  • Graduation with Honors (Honors Program), 2014, University of Deusto.

  • Extraordinary High School Award of the Basque Country, Government of the Basque Country, 2010.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Graduate College Conference Travel Grant. Fall 2015, Fall 2019.

  • Summer research grant from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Summer 2019, summer 2018.

  • Conference Travel Grant from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Fall 2015, spring 2017.

  • Conference Travel Grant from the Organization of Graduate Students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Fall 2017, spring 2019.

  • Erasmus study grant, 2012.

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