I completed a BA in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of Chile in 2011, supported by an Academic Excellence Scholarship from its Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, and an MA in Literature at the same university in 2015, funded by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile. In 2017, I obtained an MEd in Educational Management at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, and in 2018 an MA in Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona, thanks to the support of the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile. I later received further scholarships from this institution and others, which enabled me to move to King’s College London in 2019 to pursue a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies. During my doctoral studies, I contributed to teaching Spanish at all levels, as well as Latin American culture, both at King’s College London (DLLC and Language Centre) and at the UK campus of Queen’s University. Before returning to King’s, I held the position of Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Regent’s University London, and was Associate Fellow in the Latin American and Iberian Programme at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as Visiting Researcher at Brooklyn College.

Research interests

• Protestant women and manuscript culture in the Americas (19th and early 20th centuries)
• History of Christian feminisms in Latin America
• Travel writing
• Food studies
• Environmental studies

My research explores the cultural production of Protestant women in the Americas. Building on my doctoral thesis, I am currently preparing a monograph—the first full-length study to show that the archives passed on by Protestant missionary women to their communities across the Americas often disrupted the narrative of female subjugation to male spiritual authority. This work highlights their pivotal role in shaping early twentieth-century feminist movements and in establishing transnational networks spanning both the Global South and the Global North. To develop this research, I had the honour of receiving generous support from the Society for Latin American Studies to undertake a research residency at the New York Public Library, as well as from the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland to conduct a research stay at the Wright Library, Princeton. I am also working on two new projects: one investigating the use of floral imagination in children’s novels written by Methodist and Anglican missionaries active in Chile and the Wallmapu in the early twentieth century, and another exploring how cookbooks were used by interdenominational women’s leagues in the Southern Cone to teach religious beliefs about motherhood and the scientific care of the family.

Teaching

I have fifteen years of teaching experience in higher education, specialising in Spanish language and culture as well as Foundations. At King’s, I deliver undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Latin American literature and culture, and also contribute to Spanish language courses.

Expertise and public engagement

I actively bring research into public spaces. Since moving to the UK, I have collaborated with the theatre translation collective Out of the Wings and contributed to impactful initiatives such as the Indigenous Ethnicities on Screen film festival, co-organised by King’s College London and UCL in 2022. I also served as Archival Coordinator for the Stories of Strand project during the pedestrianisation of Aldwych and the Strand, in partnership with Somerset House, Westminster Council, and St Mary-le-Strand, and supported the OWRI Language Acts and Worldmaking project as Administrator, overseeing communications and administrative tasks to reach wider audiences. I currently lead Creating Libraries: Religious Women’s Histories across the Americas, a preservation and digitisation project shortlisted by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. I am also interested in initiatives that combine Spanish teaching with social inclusion.

Selected publications

• Portraits of Flowers: Botanical and Devotional Language in One of God’s Lilies. Accepted for publication. Forthcoming in 2026 (Routledge).
• Gender, Empire and Food in the Cookbook of Jane Fitch Trumbull (1848–1875): How the Legacy of a Manuscript Reframed the Concept of the Religious Wife in the Americas. In preparation.