Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Extremadura. Her field of specialisation is Anglophone environmental literature. Within this discipline she has paid special attention to animal literature, as well as ecofeminism. He is one of the founding members of the Research Group in Ecocriticism (GIECO), attached to the Franklin Institute of the University of Alcalá, the institution where he obtained his PhD in North American Studies. She is also part of the Research Group on Languages and Cultures in Modern Europe: Discourse and Identity (CILEM) at the University of Extremadura. Her commitment to ecocriticism is manifested in her involvement in the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). She was a member of its Executive Board from 2012 to 2016 and Executive Editor of its journal, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment, from 2014 to 2020. Her research activity has led her to stays at places such as the University of Arizona in Tucson, the University of Nevada in Reno, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), and the Rachel Carson Center in Munich (Germany) where she was a Carson Fellow from February to July 2019. In 2018 he received a SAAS/Fulbright fellowship which he enjoyed at Georgetown University (USA). In February 2022, she started a one-year research stay at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) thanks to a Recualification Grant. She has recently participated in the European projects "EnviroCitizen: Citizen Science for Environmental Citizenship" (GA No 872557) and DigiPhiLit "Digital Humanities and Filipino Literature in Spanish" (2020-1-BE02-KA203-074821), as well as in Aglaya "Strategies of Innovation in Cultural Mythocriticism" (H2019/HUM-5714 AGLAYA-CM Grupo GIECO) funded by the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the European Social Fund and in "Women Who Write Animals: Animal Alterities and their Creators in Anglophone Literature: An Ecofeminist Approach" (GV/2022) funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. Her latest publication is “Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Maria Paz Zamora-Mascuñana's Mi Obolo” published in the journal Kritika Kultura (2023). Within the field of environmental humanities, she has recently co-edited with Lorraine Kerslake the volume Women Who Write Animals which will be published in 2024 (Brill).