Professor and researcher in English Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). (Full time, Titular C). She has a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from UNAM, and an Ph. D. in English from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has specialized in literary and cultural studies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, cultural history, translation and literary criticism. She has published forty academic articles and book chapters. She has coordinated four collective books of literary and translation studies, and a book as sole author. She has directed and taken part in several research projects funded by PAPIIT-DGAPA. She directs a digital humanities project, Imaginary Mexico based on imagology about the representation of Mexico in seventeenth and eighteenth-century print culture. She has supervised 35 BA dissertations, she has and taken part in 25 M.A. and 12 Ph.D. adjudicating committees. She has published a book of original poetry, Parizada, or the Round of Dervishes. She was head of the Modern Languages Department and the director of the Centre for Mexican Studies, UNAM-UK at King’s College London (2019-2024). She belongs to the National Research System, Level II.