I received my PhD in English Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2000) after obtaining a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California.
Since 2013 I have been the PI of the NETEC research group https://netec.webs.uvigo.es/en
at the University of Vigo, devoted to the study of textual and cultural negotiations in contemporary Anglophone societies. I collaborate as an external expert reader for Literature Ireland https://www.literatureireland.com/ the Irish national agency for the promotion of the translation of Irish literature since 2012. In January 2025 I was elected to the board of trustees of the research association International James Joyce Foundation https://joycefoundation.utulsa.edu/ for a period of six years.
My research as a the PI of NETEC is mainly developed around two axes:
1) The study of translation as a form of negotiation between languages and cultures and in relation to the sociopolitical contexts and intellectual frameworks of translation practices. This line of research has been developed through collaborations with researchers from the Universities of Porto and Queen’s University Belfast, through the organization of the “I International Conference Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality” https://tv.uvigo.es/series/5b5b5d1b8f42080432215b4c
and the publication, among others, of a special issue on translation in the journal Atlantic Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14788810.2018.1454581
2) The study of literary texts and cultural phenomena from transdisciplinary perspectives that include approaches close to sociology and sociolinguistics. This line of research is currently being developed through the NETEC Seminar Series on Intersectional Vulnerabilities and specifically with a focus on the Irish cultural context through the Project which I coordinate “‘INTRUTHS 2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing” PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI
The most recent research results include the organization of the 19th International Conference of AEDEI: Silence and Inconvenient Truths in Irish Culture and Society https://tv.uvigo.es/series/60db1y52d5y35a5917581a39
and the publication of specialized open access volumes such as Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that Speak (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2