My area of research is the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of modern and contemporary Spain, with the particular purpose of re-evaluating religion as a critical category in a context often labeled as both post-religious and post-secular. At the heart of my work lies the conflicting intersection between ethics and progress in the literary imagination of the West, aiming at the creation of an interdisciplinary ground for discussing how religion is represented in Spanish literature and film in accord with its current role in an increasingly secular society. I am currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled “Sediments of Religion in Contemporary Spanish Fiction,” where I analyze works by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Camilo José Cela, Miguel Delibes, Manuel Rivas, Alberto Méndez, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Arturo Pérez Reverte, and Rafael Chirbes. In recent years I also developed an interest in urban studies and its relationship with cultural production in the Spanish-speaking world, and have co-edited a volume of essays on The Sacred and Spanish Modernity: Beyond the Secular City (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Other research and teaching interests include War, Memory, and Trauma, Film, and Transatlantic Studies, and several articles in these fields have appeared in journals such as Romance Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, or Afro-Hispanic Review.