My teaching and research interests include Contemporary Spain and Hispanic cultural forms, narratives of displacement (travel writing, nomadic poetry), and Spanish Peninsula ecocriticism. Additionally, I am doing research and learning about active-learning practices, such as ePortfolios, learning reflections and project-based learning.
In my doctoral dissertation, I focused on microfiction written in Mexico by Spanish exile writers such as Max Aub, María Luisa Elío, and José de la Colina. While I teach, I make cultural and critical connections to the past and the present, to Europe and the Americas. I have written and published about postismo (the last Vanguard movement of last-century’s Spain), 20th-and-21st-century microfiction, parody, and mise en abyme. I am currently working on an article about the representation of Spanish economic exile (2008-2018) in different contemporary cultural artifacts, such as documentary, short-stories, novels, films, and poetry. I have also translated Javier Tomeo’s narratives into Italian language.
I am currently working on contemporary issues such as migration narratives in the economic Spanish diaspora (2008-2018).