"What is the use of a house if there is not a tolerable planet on which to place it." Henry D. Thoreau.
I firmly believe in the power of literature as an agent for the transformation of societies, which is why the study of the literary treatment of nature as the source of all goods and its implications in raising awareness towards the adoption of new, more sustainable attitudes is more than relevant today.
Graduated in French Philology and Romance Philology at the University of Granada (1991 and 1993 respectively) and PhD from the University of Jaén in 2008, she began teaching as a career civil servant in the Corps of Teachers of Secondary Education, specialising in French language (1994-2005), continuing as a PDI of the University of Jaén since 2005. She is a member of the University's Research Group "Literary and Intercultural Studies". Her research has focused especially on the work of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a renowned author committed to contemporary issues, including the defence of nature.
Lines of research: ecocriticism, contemporary French-language literature, Le Clézio's literature, literature written by women, French language didactics.