Research

My thesis, Quixotism in the French Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Reading of Cervantes, Balzac and Flaubert (ORA), studies the reception of Cervantes’s Don Quijote in nineteenth-century France by examining, on the one hand, how it is discussed in non-fiction texts written by professional scholars, literary critics and translators, and, on the other hand, the creative ways in which Balzac and Flaubert reuse and update the knight’s story in their own novels. The thesis aims to demonstrate how a work of fiction from a completely different time period and national tradition can serve as a powerful tool of cultural enquiry, in particular, in relation to the theme of idealism and the revolutions of 1830 and 1848. 

Publications

2027, "Proust's Cryptic Rewriting of 'Don Quijote'", French Studies, [forthcoming].

2024, “Sainte-Beuve’s Quixotic Response to Hugo’s ‘Shakespeare’”, Modern Language Review, 119-1, 36-54.

2022, “‘Sylvie’, or the end of Romanticism”, Neophilologus, 106-3, 381–395.

2018, “Estrategias discursivas irónicas en ‘Madame Bovary’”, Çédille, 14, 377–408.