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I joined Stirling as a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages in September 2022. Previously I was an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Romance Philology of the Freie Universit?t Berlin (2021-2022), and I completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford in 2021.

My research interests broadly fall under postcolonial and diasporic memory studies and border studies. I have published on medieval and early modern Iberian literature and culture as well as on neomedievalisms in the Hispanophone world. My latest book, Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus, was published with OUP in 2024.

I am willing to supervise PhD projects on any topics relating to my research areas, and particularly on the global Hispanophone, medievalism and/or medieval Iberian studies. I lecture and teach on topics across all years of the undergraduate programme in SPLAS and in 2024/25 I am coordinating modules for first, third and final year students.

In the wider Division, I convene the Literature & Languages Research Seminar and am also a member of the Postcolonial Studies and Heritage Research Groups.

I am currently co-editor-in-chief of the journal postmedieval, which publishes theoretically driven scholarship on premodernity and its ongoing reverberations. See: for further information.

My research interests span Hispanophone literature and culture from the medieval to the modern period and are focused on the cultural memory of the premodern era in later centuries, and particularly in postcolonial contexts and diaspora.

My first monograph, Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus, was published with OUP in 2024. It examines how and why a medieval legend that narrates Christian Iberia’s disempowerment and domination by a superior Islamic polity (al-Andalus) was repeatedly rewritten once the reverse colonial dynamic had taken hold.

My current research is primarily focused on postcolonial and diasporic responses to medieval and early modern cultures. I have published on neomedievalism in Argentina and have forthcoming publications on Sephardic and Philippine poetry, as well as on the portrayal of the Inquisition in US cinema. I am moreover developing a new comparative project on historical memory in postcolonial and diasporic poetry that interrogates the persistence of oral ballads in border zones.

In 2023 I was awarded a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant for the project "Living out the Past: Medievalised Self-Fashioning and Postcolonial Memory in Colombia & Argentina". I am now completing a short monograph based on the fieldwork conducted for this project, entitled Re-enacting Premodern Pasts in Latin America: Fantasy, Identity, and Community.

I am also the co-editor, together with Geraldine Hazbun, of the volume A Companion to the Other Medieval Spanish Epic, forthcoming in Brill's Companions to Medieval Literatures and Cultures Series.