About
I received my B.A. in Hispanic Philology and German Studies from the University of Santiago de Compostela and my M.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Kansas. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, my research focuses on early 20th-century ideas of crisis and decadence in Europe from a peripheral perspective, particularly that of Galicia (Spain). In contrast to Nietzsche and Spengler, I examine the work of Galician intellectual Vicente Risco (1884-1963), whose alternative narrative critiques Eurocentrism while challenging the hegemony of Western philosophy and, ultimately, Modernity itself. My interests also include the construction of identity, cultural interaction, concepts of place and space, theories of nationalism, history of religion, and hermetic philosophy.
