Maite completed her undergraduate studies in Spain, before obtaining an MA in Comparative Literature from Royal Holloway College (2005) and a PhD in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies from King's College London (2013). Her first permanent academic posting was at the University of Leicester, where she worked between 2016 and 2026. She is the author of Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain: Rethinking the Movida (Legenda, 2015) and Spanish Spaces of Crisis: Cultural Responses to the 2008 Recession in Spain (Liverpool University Press, 2026). She has also co-edited (with Stuart Davis) The Modern Spanish Canon: Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy (Legenda, 2018).

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Contemporary Spanish literature and visual culture.

Maite's specific research interests lie in the areas of urban studies and spatial theory, women's writing, and visual culture (particularly photography, comics, and graphic novels) in contemporary Spain. She welcomes enquiries from prospective graduate students interested in these topics, and in Spanish culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries more broadly.

Teaching

Maite teaches on modern and contemporary Spanish culture, as well as on the core Spanish Language programme.

Expertise and public engagement

Maite is happy to consider presentations or interviews on contemporary Spanish culture.

Selected publications

• ‘The political potential of contemporary women’s life writing in Spain: the cases of Marta Sanzand Cristina Fallarás’, in Forms, Fragments & Fractures in Contemporary Women’s Life Writing: Spain, Portugal, and Italy, ed. Hannie Lawlor and Raquel Fernández Menéndez (London:Routledge, forthcoming 2027).
• Spanish Spaces of Crisis: Cultural Responses to the 2008 Recession in Spain (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026).
• ‘NoPhoto’s Memoria Colonizada projects: (re)creating collective memories?’, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 25, Issue 4 (2024): Special Dossier: ‘Cultural Engagements with the Rural inContemporary Spain: Manifestations and Critical Tensions’, co-edited with Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, 529-548.
• ‘Cultural engagements with the rural in contemporary Spain: manifestations and criticaltensions’, co-authored with Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol.25, Issue 4 (2024): Special Dossier: Cultural Engagements with the Rural in Contemporary Spain: Manifestations and Critical Tensions, co-edited with Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, 465-475.
• ‘Homeloss: Narratives of Eviction in Contemporary Spain’, Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 57, Issue 3, July 2021, 291-312.
• ‘Belén Gopegui’s literature in crisis: anticipating the literatura de la crisis?’ in ‘The Politics of(In)Visibility in Contemporary Spanish Literature’, special issue of the International Journal of Iberian Studies, co-edited with Leticia Blanco and Carmina Gustrán, Volume 33, Number 1, 1March 2020, pp. 9-25.
• The Modern Spanish Canon: Visibility, Cultural Capital and the Academy, co-edited with StuartDavis (Oxford: Legenda, 2018).
• ‘Gendered Genres: Autofictional versus Autobiographical Readings of Elvira Lindo’s Lo que mequeda por vivir (2010)’, in Feminine Singular: Growing Up Through Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World, ed. Maria Jose Blanco and Claire Williams (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 229-241.
• ‘¿De la movida no queda nada? El hispanismo ante (sub-)culturas efímeras’, in Los límites delhispanismo, ed. Santiago Pérez-Isasi et al. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 29-39.
• Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain: Rethinking the Movida (Oxford:Legenda, 2015).
• ‘Sex and the city: urban eroticism in Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester’s Manuel series’, Hispanic Research Journal, vol. 14 no. 5, October 2013, 394-408.