She completed her B.A. dissertation at the English Department, University of A Coru�a (1997) entitled "The Wanderer or Female Difficulties: A Political Reading of Eighteenth-Century Women" (2000). Her Ph.D. thesis, "The contribution of Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth to the English novel between the years 1778-1834" (2007), focused on the narrative work of two of the most important British writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.