Research: REMEDIOS VARO (1908 – 1963): ON HER SELF-AFFIRMATION BETWEEN HARMONY AND UNEASE IN LITERARY WORK
Currently a PhD student in “Estudio de las Mujeres. Discursos y prácticas de Genero” at the University of Granada, in co-supervision with the course “Studies in mediaeval philology, paleography, romance studies"in the "Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies" at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Her project focuses on the figure of Remedios Varo and her claim as a writer in the Mexican surrealist context from a feminist perspective.
She is a permanent teacher, currently on leave, in the AC25 (Spanish language in lower secondary school) and AC24 (Spanish language in upper secondary school) having passed both extraordinary and ordinary public school competitions in Italy.
She obtained her bachelor's degree in "Linguistic and Cultural Mediation" at "La Sapienza," with a thesis titled "Journey through Female Mythological Creatures Carved in Romanesque Churches of Aragon," and her master's degree in "Modern Languages, Literatures, and Translation Sciences" at the same university, with a thesis titled "The Image of Mexico among Italian Intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s."
After her degrees and obtaining a certification to teach Italian as a second language (L2/LS), she spent three years as a teacher and social educator in Brazil through an internship promoted by AIESEC. She also worked at the "Dante Alighieri Society" and in a high school in Argentina.
Upon her return, she taught Spanish language and literature at the "University of Molise" in the Faculty of "Human, Social, and Educational Sciences" and began substitute teaching in Italian public schools.
Her research interests include: Hispanic-American literature, especially Mexican literature, Spanish avant-garde literature, art history, women's and feminist literature, as well as intercultural didactics and pedagogy.