The Researcher

Sara Santa-Aguilar

I have a degree in Literature (Cum laude, Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Meritorious Monograph Award, 2013), Philosophy (Cum laude, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2013) a Master’s degree in Literature (Cum laude, Arts and Humanities, 2014) from the University of the Andes (Colombia) and a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities (Sobresaliente cum laude with International Mention, 2019) from the University of Navarra. I have devoted myself to the study of the poetry inserted in Cervantes’ complete prose. My monograph El Aleph de los poetas: la poesía inserta en la narrativa de Cervantes won the VI Premio de Investigación Cervantista José María Casasayas and was published by the University of Alcalá de Henares (2021).

In 2022 I was granted a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship within the Horizon Europe calls of the European Commission to develop my project “Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative”. In 2023 I was granted funding from the University of Milan for my project “La violenza di genere nella letterattura ispanica attraverso i secoli” PSR-LINEA4-2022. In 2025, I received a PNRR MSCA Young Researchers grant, funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and the European Union, for my NONARCADICS project, which explores non-physical violence in the Arcadia. The following year, I received funding from the University of Milan for my project, “Nuclei diegetici e incrocio di generi letterari tra l’Italia e la Spagna della prima modernità” (PSR-LINEA-4-2025).

I am a member of the advisory board of the journal Hipogrifo, and I have served as a reviewer for prestigious journals such as La Perinola, Anuario Calderoniano, Metal Music Studies, Calíope, and the Centro de Estudios Linguísticos y Literarios of El Colegio de México. I have taught Spanish Literature at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), the Universidad de La Rioja (Spain), the University of Münster (Germany), and the University of Milan (Italy). In 2025, I was elected to the Executive Council of the Cervantes Society of America.