I am currently studying the PhD program in Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia; my research regards pictorial art and visual narrative through the concept of narrative space – reconciled visual in the first wordless picture book of Don Quijote de la Mancha. I also obtained a Master’s degree in Languages-linguistics-literatures-cultures from the University of Calgary, Canada 2024. Furthermore, I got a BA in Spanish and Literature. Spanish and Audio Visual Communication Program. School of Education. Technological University of Pereira, Colombia. 2019. I have worked as a Spanish teacher, also in several editorial projects, I have published a number of poems and short stories in magazines of national circulation in Colombia, and I have experience managing cultural projects.

• Spanish Teacher Courses 201 / 203 / 301 / 303. University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada. 2023 – 2024.
• TA Spanish courses. University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada. 2022 – 2023.
• Cultural Manager. Nonprofit organization Mímesis. La Virginia, Colombia. 2017-2018.

Interests

• Creative reading and picture book format
• Analysis of the ekphrasis and reverse ekphrasis applied in the adaptation of classic literature to visual formats
• The construction of new visual-reading codes applied to the reading and dissemination of the literature of the golden age, the elaboration of books, cultural diversity
• Teaching Spanish in alternative ways applied the relationship between image and the text

Working Papers

• “La intertextualidad: una aproximación al concepto de espacio narrativo reconciliado en Don Quijote de la Mancha”. 2005. (Pending publication by JISO).
• “La contingencia femenina: una expresión del poder político y social de Catalina de Oviedo en La gran sultana de Cervantes y de Lucrecia en La mandrágora de Maquiavelo”. 2025. (Pending publication by Intesecciones Hispánica, University of New Mexico)
• Don Quijote de la Mancha I a través de un libro sin palabras: creación y conceptos teóricos. Master’s thesis degree 2024.
• The Representation of Death in the Presence of the Image of the Grandfather in a Set of Children’s Picture Books through the Theory of Orlando Mejía Rivera. Technological University of Pereira, Colombia. Undergraduate thesis. 2019.

Work in Progress

• Cervantes y las joyas. Review. 2025. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. (Pending)
• Characterization and Construction of Picture Books – La Cebolla Azul (The Blue Onion).
• Presentation Art Movement in Pedagogical Analysis of Don Quixote de la Mancha in the Wordless Picture Book – Visual Narrative

Edited Books and Publications

• SpaniCarts, Newspaper. Latinoamerican Art Newspaper. Calgary, 2025.
• Antología de relatos ilustrados: Urdimbre de paisaje tejido en prosa. Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. 2022.
• Sinfonía azul de madrugada (Early Morning Blue Symphony). Comfamiliar Institute- Risaralda. 2017.
• 50/60 De tantas huellas (50-60 Of Many Footprints). Risaralda province and Comfamiliar Institute Risaralda. 2017.

Poetry

• Lo Bello de No Sentir. (The Beauty of not Feeling) Anthology ”Relata’’ Colombian Department of Culture.
• 16 Noches (16 Nights) Anthology “Relata” Colombian Department of Culture
• Alicia. Anthology “Tocando el Viento”(Touching the Wind) Colombian Department of Culture. 2016.
• Debí Advertir (I Should have Known) “Un Travieso sol entre las Calles” (A Playful Sun in the Streets) Chambrana Editors. Pereira, Colombia. 2019.
• Pulsión (Drive) “Un Travieso sol entre las Calles” (A Playful Sun in the Streets) Chambrana Editors. Pereira, Colombia. 2019.
• Urdimbre de Paisaje Tejido en Prosa (Landscape warp woven in prose) La Cebolla Azul Editores. Pereira, Colombia. 2022.

Stories

• La Casona (The Big House). Anthology “50/60 De Tantas Huellas” Norena. A Comfamiliar – Risaralda 2017.

Short Film

• Bajo las Brasas (Under the Coals). Short Film winner of the cultural ward Tejiendo Saberes Risaralda – Colombia 2021.

• Book creation scholarship, Urdimbre de Paisaje Tejido en Prosa, Jóvenes en Movimiento – Colombia 2022.
• International Fellowship, The Theatre and Images Workshop, University of Calgary, Calgary, 2023.

Graduate supervisor: Dr. Raúl Álvarez Moreno

• Rokeby Venus. XV Annual Grad Symposium FHIS – UBC. 2025.
• De la écfrasis a la écfrasis inversa en el Quijote. Congreso anual de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. 2025.
• La intertextualidad, una aproximación al concepto del espacio narrativo reconciliado en Don Quijote de la Mancha. Jóvenes Investigadores del Siglo de Oro (JISO). 2024.
• La mujer que es Nieves. Congreso anual de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. 2023.