Cincinnati Romance Review

I work on Contemporary Spanish Poetry, Food Studies (Gastronomy and Culinary Literature), and Spanish Women Writers. I am the author of several scholarly books, poetry books, and critical editions, among them El culturalismo en la poesía de Juan Gil-Albert (Alicante: IGA, 2000), Juan Gil Albert, Poesía Completa (Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2004), De la página al plato. El libro de cocina en España (Gijón: Trea, 2012), and Madrid: A Culinary History (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). I teach courses on Spanish poetry, Spanish language, food and culture, and creative writing.

Using frameworks from the history of science, intellectual history, and the history of the book, I do research on eighteenth-century natural history, encyclopedias, and other topics. I am the author of several books on the topic, among them The European Encyclopedia, from 1650 to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon's Universal History of Arts and Sciences (1745) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010), and Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001). I teach courses on the French language, French culture, and French literary history.

I am a PhD student in Romance Languages & Literatures and I pursue a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I hold a M.A. in Spanish & Latin American Literature and a B.A. in Philosophy. I am proficient in Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and English. Spanish is my native language. I am a language teacher, literary translator into Spanish, and writer.