About
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano with the project “Violendings: Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative”, funded by the European Commission (HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions).
My PhD Thesis, entitled El Aleph de los poetas: la poesía inserta en la narrativa de Cervantes, was awarded the 6th José María Casasayas Award by Asociación de Cervantistas and Argamasilla de Alba’s Town Hall (April 2021). Education
2013 – Philosophy. Honors. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 – Literature. Honors. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
2014 – MA. Literature. Honors. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
2019 – PhD Hispanic Literature. Honors. Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona. Spain. Publications
Articles in Journals:
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Chè per tal variar natura è bella: variaciones cervantinas sobre el tópico de la navegación amorosa” [Chè per tal variar natura è bella: Cervantine Variations on the Topic of Love Seafaring]. Anales Cervantinos 53 (2021): 239-261.
“¿Confinados en la Arcadia y desconfinados en la corte? Una aproximación a la estructura de los relatos cortesanos en las novelas pastoriles (con una nota sobre Darinto en «La Galatea»)” [Confined in the Arcadia an Unconfined in Court? An Approximation to the Structure of Courtly Stories in Pastoral Novel (with a Note about Darinto in La Galatea)]. Hipogrifo 9.2 (2021): 389-398.
“Tópicos poéticos que conducen a la infelicidad: de La Galatea al Persiles” [Poetic Topics that lead to Unhappiness: from La Galatea to the Persiles]. Filología 51 (2019): 17-28.
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Burlas poéticas en El Quijote” [Poetic Mockeries in Don Quixote]. Hipogrifo 7.2 (2019): 283-295.
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La poesía en La Ilustre Fregona de Cervantes” [Poetry in Cervantes’ La Ilustre Fregona]. Arte Nuevo 6 (2019): 148-168.
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Dos ambigüedades autorales en los poemas insertos en las Novelas Ejemplares de Cervantes” [ Two Authoral Ambiguities in Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels]. Artifara 19 (2019): 247-254.
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La Galatea y las expectativas de la tradición literaria: el caso de Teolinda” [La Galatea and the Expectations of a Literary Tradition: The Case of Teolinda]. Hipogrifo 6.2 (2018): 283-295.
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Elicio, Erastro y Galatea en clave poética” [Elicio, Erastro and Galatea in a Poetic Key]. Criticón 133 (2018): 37-56.
“En el humilde teatro: paradojas de la puesta en escena de la égloga de los cuatro discretos y lastimados pastores en La Galatea” [“On the Humble Stage”: Paradoxes in the Staging of the Eclog of the Four Discrete and Hurtful Shepherds in La Galatea]. Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos 13 (2017): 265-278.
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La poesía en la ficción: una aproximación a la estructura de El curioso impertinente” [ Poetry in Fiction: an Approximation to the Structure of El curioso impertinente]. Hipogrifo 3.2 (2015): 285-295.
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Referentes poéticos cabellerescos en el Quijote de 1615: Gaiferos y Altisidora” [Theatre and Chivalric Poetic References in don Quixote (1615): Gaiferos and Altisidora]. Lingüística y Literatura 67 (2015): 105-121.
Book Chapters:
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A vueltas con el paje poeta de La Gitanilla“. In: Daniel Migueláñez and Aurelio Vargas Diaz-Toledo (ed).
De mi patria y de mí mismo salgo: Actas del X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 2022: 253-261.
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Amor, interés y poesía: el poder de la riqueza en dos bodas cervantinas” [Love, Interest and Poetry in two Cervantine Weddings]. In: Ignacio Arellano and Jesús Méndez Peláez (ed).
La imagen de la autoridad y el poder en el teatro del siglo de oro. New York: IDEA, 2016: 115-134.
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De Urganda al Cachidiablo: una aproximación a los poemas del marco del Quijote de 1605” [ From Urganda to the Cachidiablo: an Approximation to the Poems which Frame Don Quixote (1605)]. In: Emmanuel Marigno, Carlos Mata and Marie-Hélène Maux (ed).
Cervantès et “Don Quichotte” depuis les XXe-XXIe siècles / Cervantes y “Don Quijote” desde los siglos XX-XXI. Lyon: Orbis Tertius, 2017: 73-93.
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Verdad, mentira y poesía en la historia de Timbrio y Silerio en La Galatea“. Adrián Sáez(ed),
Admiración del mundo: Actas selectas del XIV Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica 24. Venezia: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2021:
383-394.Projects
Violendings: Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative (Grant ID: 101062513)
The purpose of this project is to study the complex integration of violence in the Spanish Golden Age happy ending narrative. In the ‘idealistic’ Spanish narrative genres of the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, such as the pastoral and the courtly novel, the inclusion of violence is problematic. It is useful to create a gripping plot, but must be ‘solved’ to reach a happy ending. The project will propose the concept of ‘economy of violence’ to study the narrative structure of these genres and will analyze the strategies to deactivate and legitimize violence that allow these plots to resolve into a happy ending.
Beyond the literary approach, the project has the ambition to propose a multidisciplinary understanding of these strategies, bringing together literature, historical sociology and gender studies. Considering the social structures of the Golden Age Spain, together with the concrete context of production and consumption of these genres (almost always written by men and widely consumed by women), the project intends to provide a critical analysis of what was presented as a happy ending and an ideal solution to violence -particularly to gender-based violence- through these plots. This panorama will be completed with a separate study of the courtly novels written by women and an analysis of how the narrative schemes produced by the male hegemonic culture and the traditional happy endings were transformed or even rejected in their narrative production.
The project has two main objectives. On one hand, from a literary perspective, it aims to arrive at a better understanding of the ‘idealistic’ narrative genres of the Spanish Golden Age through the concept of ‘economy of violence’. On the other hand, from a socio-historical and a gender perspective, it aims to analyze the interplay between the dictates of the Spanish patriarchal society of the 16th-17th centuries and the structure of the idealistic narrative of this period.
Memberships
Asociación de Cervantistas.
CSA (Cervantes Society of America)
AISO (Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro)
SRBHP (Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry).
International Society for Metal Music Studies.
AITENSO (Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos De Oro)
