Witnessing the degradation of nature made it impossible for me to look the other way. The journey, which was decisive in my personal and academic career, led me to understand literary research as a form of attentive presence in the world, sensitive to the diversity of living things and the links that cross cultures and territories.

She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and a BA in Hispanic Philology from the University of Alcalá. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Málaga. A substantial part of her research career has been devoted to the integration of ecocriticism and ecofeminism into initial teacher education, as well as to their application to the study of Romance literature and contemporary Latin American literature.

Between 2013 and 2023, she carried out her teaching and research activities at the University of Los Lagos (Chile), where she organized the First Seminar on Ecocriticism (2013) and subsequent editions, and coordinated the research group Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and Ecopedagogy. She served as Principal Investigator of the international project In Defense of Lakes: An Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Proposal for the Transition toward a Culture of Sustainability (ANID, Chile, 2021–2023), within which teacher-training workshops were conducted and didactic strategies for secondary education were developed. She has presented her research at international conferences, including the conference Reading and Writing Today, organized by the Chilean Ministry of Education (2019). She is the author of articles published in indexed journals (WOS and Scopus), including “A Look at Teaching Practice from the Paradigm of Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism” (2025, Revista CS) and “Reading Manzoni in the 21st Century: The Ecogothic Paths of Renzo and Lucia” (2025, Álabe).

Research interests: ecocriticism; ecofeminism; Romance literature; contemporary Latin American literature