Academic and professional qualifications

PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Awaiting for viva).

Thesis: Connecting Threads: The Transnational Textile Trade between Nineteenth-century Britain and the Spanish-speaking World. 

MA History of Design, Royal College / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Dissertation: Woven Knowledge: From Print to 'Textile Enlightenment' in Spain (1759-1813) 

BA (Hons) History of Art, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona

International Exchange Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Grant recipient: International Mobility Scholarship, Becas Fórmula Santander €6,000

National Exchange Scholarship (Sicue), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid

Grant recipient: Seneca Sicue, National Mobility Scholarship €5000

BA (Hons) Textile Design, Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona

Erasmus Exchange, École National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Previous Employment

At the University of Edinburgh, I also work as a research assistant for the digital humanities project Subaltern Histories of Global Textiles, an interactive, public-centred digital resource built on connecting collections which aims to de-centre (fashion) history by disentangling the dress phenomenon of Madras, a South-Indian fabric whose large consumption by Black communities in the Caribbean reshaped Indian production, fostered British competition and was appropriated by Europeans in the craze for ‘Oriental’ fashions. 

Academic service (administration and management)

I act as Personal Tutor to Level-6 students

Languages

▪ English: Bilingual

▪ Spanish: Native

▪ Italian: Fluent. Spoken, written, and read

▪ French: Fluent. Spoken, written, and read

▪ Catalan: Fluent. Spoken, written, and read

Undergraduate teaching

Fashion Cultures 1

This unit introduces the critical & Contextual Studies approach to Fashion as a cultural concept, industry and creative endeavour, developing ways of critical thinking and academic enquiry that will form the basis of subsequent study. The unit introduces students to a wide range of key cultural concepts, whilst developing skills in research methods, literature reviews, critical thinking, reading, analysis and academic writing that will inform subsequent study.

Fashion Cultures 2

This unit enables students to further develop their critical skills and research interests, contextualising and analyzing key issues and shifts in the domain of Fashion. This unit builds on and extends the knowledge and skills developed in Fashion Cultures 1. Students will critically contextualise and analyse contemporary issues and cultural shifts in Fashion. Students have opportunity to focus on an area of critical and contextual studies that aligns with their personal practice.

Fashion and Society

This unit explores the connection between fashion, consumption and popular culture. Students are introduced to key cultural theories and sociological concepts such that they can begin to further understand and critically engage with key ideas that have shaped the fashion system and the culture in which it acts. 

Directing and Producing

This unit provides an opportunity to distil ambition for designing change within Fashion Art Direction contexts. An initial proposition will be continually refined in order to achieve visionary and innovative responses through practice informed by theory. You will be encouraged to reinforce the notion of the collective through continued engagement with relevant cultural and creative opportunities.

Exhibitions

Exhibition Research Assistant for Mediums and Visionaries 15 Feb. to 2 June 2019, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma.

Membership of professional associations

▪ (in process) HEA Fellowship, United Kingdom
▪ DATS (Dress and Textiles Specialists), United Kingdom
▪ FHD (Fundación de Historia del Diseño), Spain
▪ AFET (L'Association Française pour l'Etude du Textile), France
▪ CIETA (Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens), France