CV

Education

  • DPhil/Ph.D., Medieval and Modern Languages (Spanish), University of Oxford, 2024
    • Dissertation title: An assault on the senses: The understanding and rhetoric of the five senses in the first-hand accounts of the initial period of the Arauco War (ca. 1546 – 1656)
    • Dissertation advisor: Dr Imogen Choi
  • MSt, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (2021)
    • Dissertation title: Satire and the city: Lima and Mexico as the ciudad (des)ordenada in the poetry of Mateo Rosas de Oquendo
    • Dissertation advisor: Dr Alice Brooke
  • MPhil, Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2020)
  • BA, Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London (2018)

Publications

The Story of the Strawberry‘, History Workshop, April 2023

The History and Historiography of Afro-Chileans in Colonial Chile‘, EPOCH, December 2022

Awards and Honours

Nominated for PhD Student of the Year, The Postgrad Awards, 2022

Nominated for Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Award, University of Oxford, 2022

Founders’ Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Literature (SRBHP), 2022

Faculty prize for best MSt dissertation on Spanish literature, University of Oxford, 2021

Letter of congratulations for MSt results, University of Oxford, 2021

Grants and Fellowships

Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science, Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, 2023-5

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellow, Newberry Library, 2023

Colin Matthew Fund, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, 2022

Cecil Lubbock Graduate Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Oxford, 2021-4

Conference Activity/Participation

‘Expanding the Black Atlantic’, Transatlantic Studies Conference, Portsmouth, 2023

‘Taste in the first-hand accounts of the Arauco War’, Spanish Golden Age Graduate Symposium, Oxford, 2023

‘New technologies and the literature of the Arauco War’, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Convention, San Juan, 2023

‘A war of words: Characterisation through speech in La Araucana as explored through digital humanities’, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 2023

‘Methodological considerations when reconstructing the early modern Reche-Mapuche sensory experience’, Early Modern Sensory Experiences (ESME), 2022

‘The sound of diplomacy in first-hand accounts of the Arauco War’, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Convention, 2022

‘Rethinking gender, war, and cultural diversity in La Araucana through a trans-Atlantic interpretation of sight’, Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Literature (SRBHP), 2022

‘A case-study of MS. Bodley 617: The challenges of encoding Indigenous diacritical marks in TEI’, TEI Consortium Conference, 2021 (Online)

Professional Memberships

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBHP)

Last updated 23/05/2023