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My research has two main strands:

The first strand explores how fiction both shapes and is shaped by the cultural, political, and aesthetic landscapes in which it emerges. It focuses on contemporary Spanish narrative from the Transition to the present, examining the nature of narrative itself, including metafiction, realism, the persistence of literary and conceptual traditions, and the survival of universal symbolic motifs and myths. Within this strand, a central concern is the role of the uncanny as a mode for engaging with disquiet, absence, and the unresolved in contemporary fiction, both as an aesthetic category and as the expression of political and ideological discourse.

My PhD focused on the Spanish writer José Luis Sampedro (1917–2013), with particular attention to characterisation as shaped by the interplay between story—understood in its temporal and spatial dimensions—and discourse. I framed this analysis within the broader context of the Western novel and the symbolic tradition. Building on this foundation, I later wrote a monograph that moves beyond the scope of the PhD to explore the philosophical, cultural, and symbolic dimensions of Sampedro’s work, particularly through the lens of duality and the tensions it reveals between materiality and transcendence. I also contributed to a , which celebrated Sampedro’s legacy as both a writer and a public intellectual.

In addition, I have written widely on the work of contemporary authors such as José María Merino (b. 1941), Cristina Fernández Cubas (b. 1945), Marta Sanz (b. 1967), and Patricia Esteban Erlés (b. 1972), exploring how their fiction engages with questions of identity, memory, ideology, gender, and narrative form.

The second strand of my research focuses on the cultural history of Spain over the past five decades, with particular attention to the publishing industry and cultural policies during the country’s Transition to Democracy. I have written on the cultural practices and editorial contributions of influential figures such as Rosa Regàs (1933–2024) and Esther Tusquets (1936–2012), whose work was instrumental in shaping literary culture during and after this pivotal period.

As part of this strand, I was a member of the international network ‘ / Cultural Practice and Public Sphere: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Female Publishers’, funded by Spain´s Ministry of Education and Culture and led by Dr Pura Fernández, based at the CSIC (2015-19).

I also contribute to the