Supervision and Mentorship (Postdoctoral, Doctoral, MA, TFG)
My main line of research focuses on early modern women’s writing (1600-1750), with particular emphasis on prose writing, poetry, and pre-novelistic discourses.
I examine the marginalization of women’s thought in the early modern period (1500-1770), when a massive dissemination of printed matter across Europe and beyond took place. I seek to provide a model for qualitative analysis of neglected textualities by women with a methodology in practice that retrieves intellectual content, modifying androcentric and binary dynamics of representing valuable thinking that have perpetuated up to the present time. The research seeks the full integration of women in the systems of knowledge production and transmission.
My research integrates social history, historiography (debates on the canon), history of ideas (the need to trace a genealogy of women’s contributions, not just biographies), cognitive literary theory, religion and mysticism in the Reformation, reception and textual analysis.
I have supervised over 20 MA dissertations on women’s writing (UAB) and on content and integrated language learning to students in Colombia, US and Ecuador (UNIR, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja).
Selection of MA dissertations on Literature: Alesia Volkova (2025), Francesca Corsetti (2024), María Sánchez Souto (2024), Vanessa Sanchis (2022), Helena Zúñiga (2021); Sally Tozer (2020); Shao Huiting (2017); Francesca Blanch (2016); Paula Yurss (2015); Onur Akin (2014); Azahara Ruiz (2013) and dozens of TFGs for UAB and UNIR.
TFG Award to the best Degree Paper with a gender perspective in Arts and Humanities to Nausica Vicens Salomon (sup. Carme Font): “The Representation of Male Character in Judith Drake’s An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1969): An Educational Proposal”. Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, UAB; Institut Català de les Dones; Observatori per a la Igualtat de la UAB.
Participation in Doctoral progress and MA examining committees (UAB -English Studies and Comparative Literature-, UNIR, UB’s Master on Gender Studies).
Postdoctoral and visitors’ research supervision: Amrish Nair (Johns Hopkins University, 2023); Maxim Rigaux (Ghent University, UAB, 2019-2022); Anita Gill, Fulbright scholar (2021-2022).
Supervision of Doctoral Theses (completed)
2026. Sally Tozer. “The Anglicisation of the Lais of Marie de France (1100-1350)”. Thesis defended on 26 September, 2026. Thesis co-supervised with Joan Curbet (UAB). Mark: Excel.lent cum laude.
2025. Juan Carillo del Saz. “The Early Translation and Reception of the Works of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Kate Chopin in Spain”. Thesis defended on 5 September, 2025, UAB. Thesis co-supervised with Marta Marfany (UPF). Mark: Excel.lent cum laude. La Caixa InPhinit Grantee.
2021. Paula Yurss Lasanta. “I Partake the Common Feeling”: Helen Maria Williams’ Political Writings on The French Revolution (1790-1827)”. Thesis defended on 25 March, 2021, UAB. Mark: Excel.lent cum laude, with European Mention.
2021. Francesca Blanch Serrat. “In Years Long Fled’: Romanticizing Age and Maturity in Anna Seward’s Poetry.” Thesis defended on 22 October 2021, UAB. Mark: Excel.lent cum laude, with European Mention.
Doctoral Students with Grants
Adele Baldachhino. FPI Grantee (2026-2029). FPI. PREP2024-003214. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
Bárbara Hernández. FI Grantee (2024-2027). FI-1 00432. Generalitat de Catalunya.
Juan Carrillo del Saz. InPhinit La Caixa (2022-2025). La Caixa Foundation.
Paula Yurss. ERC doctoral grant (2019-2022). European Research Council.
Francesca Blanch. ERC doctoral grant (2019-2022). European Research Council.
Supervision of Doctoral Theses (in-progress)
Bàrbara Hernández. “Post Essentialist Gender and Sexuality in Modern and Contemporary Irish Sapphic Literature. English Department, UAB. FI Grantee.
Adele Baldacchino. “Maria Callcott’s Manuscript Papers Collection and the Practice of Art Writing (1785-1842)”. English Department, UAB. FPI Grantee.
Sofía Sierra Goyeneche (co-supervised with Alexis Tadié, Cotutelle). “The Sexualisation of the Female Body in English Gothic Literature (1800-1820)”. English Department, UAB. Sorbonne Université, Paris.
Alesia Volkova (co-supervised with Francesca Blanch). “Objects of Emotions: Queer Material Affects in the novels by Ada Leverson, Rhoda Broughton and Marie Corelli”. English Department, UAB.
Francisca Pérez. “Acercamientos Metodológicos a la Pasión Crística en la Escritura Místico-Profética de Gemma Galgani (1878-1903). Departamento de Literatura Comparada, UAB.
Leonilde Cutillo (co-supervised with Eduard Vilella). “Forme dell’immaginazione mitica nell’opera di William Blake e Cesare Pavese”. Departament de Literatura Comparada, UAB.