Building on Knowledge

'Women and the Republic of Letters in the Luso-Hispanic Word, 1447-1700', is the title of my university-funded doctoral project, completed at The University of Nottingham in 2012. It charts the rise and consolidation of women's authority, chiefly as authors, in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish, within the Respublica litteraria, using a multidisciplinary stance rooted in Book History.

‘The Library of the Count-Duke of Olivares: A Mirror of Power, Patronage, and Baroque in Golden Age Spain’ is an AHRC-funded research project, led by Professor Jeremy Lawrance at the University of Nottingham. I was an associate researcher and a liaison officer for the international conference, 'Poder y Saber: Bibliotecas y bibliofilía en la época del Conde-Duque de Olivares', held 24-26 September 2009, at the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano and Palacio Real in Madrid. I also presented a paper on women and patronage during Olivares's time at 'The Republic of Letters and the Empire of the Two Worlds' conference, held 14-16 September 2010, at the Graduate Center (CUNY).

‘Les Idées du Théâtre’ is an ANR-funded research project, seeking to construct a history of drama precepts in Europe (1500-1700). Professors Anne Cayuela and Christophe Couderc, from Université Stendhal-Grenoble, 3, led the Spanish division. I am the editor of the paratext of Tragicomedia: los jardines y campos sabeos (Lisboa, 1624), by Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán.

'Poder, espiritualidad y género (Castilla: 1400-1550): La emergencia de la autoridad femenina en la corte y el convento’, is a MINECO-funded research project, led by María Morrás Ruiz-Falcó at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. I participated as an off-site researcher, investigating the manifestation of women's authority in print publications. As part of my role, I also presented a paper at the VII SEMYR conference, held 4-6 September 2018, in Salamanca.

'Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters' is a post-doctoral research project for which I was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2019. REVERE examines women's contributions to the Respublica litteraria transnationally, with a focus on the Anglo and Luso-Hispanic contexts -- through a study of print practices, it locates seventeenth-century commercial and scholarly works by eight leading women (Ana Caro de Mallén, María de Zayas Sotomayor, Luisa de Padilla Manrique, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) within the larger context of knowledge communities. I am currently in the last stages of revising the resulting monograph, to be published by Brill.

*Non-fiction Children's and Young Adult Literature. Discover It All is my first book series, which offers short introductions to topics from the humanities and the sciences. Little Books about Big Thinkers, my second book series, offers short, accessible introductions to key ideas from widely known philosophers, from ancient times to the twentieth century. My forthcoming book series, Queens of Change, celebrates the lives and legacies of globally significant women rulers. Aside from these projects, I contribute to Classic Stories, a collection of book adaptations devoted to spreading the love of books that have captivated children across time and space, and to the Spanish translations of a short biography series, originally written in English, focusing on influential people from all over the world.

*Work produced at the Hindawi Foundation and freely disseminated via its proud initiative, Booktime.org. It is both a privilege and an honour to collaborate with so many talented people and for such a wonderful cause.