My doctoral research focuses on the life, times, and works of Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal (1910-1980). Reading against the critical tendency to place her in only a feminist and Latin American context, my thesis reassesses Bombal's career by situating it in a much broader, transatlantic world of ideas. With an archival focus, I consider Bombal's multi-genre works alongside cinematic, literary, scientific and philosophical approaches to temporality in modernism, seeking to establish her as an exciting voice in global modernism. 

This project is generously funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities and Linacre College’s Mary Blaschko Graduate Scholarship.

I hold an MSt in Modern Languages (University of Oxford, 2023), funded by the Lidl Graduate Scholarship, and a BA in Spanish and German (UCL, 2021). My master's thesis, on gendered conflicts of the self in Miguel de Unamuno’s Nada menos que todo un hombre and El otro, was awarded the Faculty prize for the best dissertation on a topic in Spanish literature. I have also been a visiting researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, worked on the AHRC-funded 'Kafka's Transformative Communities' project, and taught introductory sessions at the UNIQ summer school.

The 20th century is my main research interest. Within that, I work on Spanish and Latin American literature, film, gender studies, and modernism.