Teaching

Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Current

  • Global History III (BA in Global Studies)
  • Empires in Asian History (Master’s in Asia-Pacific Studies in a Global Context)
  • Recent Trends: War, Gender, and Race in Modern European Empires (Master’s in World History)

Past

  • Història Contemporània I (BA in Humanities)
  • Diasporas in the Asia-Pacific Region (Master’s in Asia-Pacific Studies in a Global Context)


Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

  • Historical Argument and Practice (Seminars in the “Global and transnational history” module, BA in History)


Department of Germanic and Romance Languages, University of Delhi

  • Oral Spanish Expression I (BA in Hispanic Studies)
  • Written Spanish Expression II (MA in Hispanic Studies)


Guest teaching

She has taught as a guest professor at the American University of Beirut, An-Najah National University (Nablus, Palestine), the Universitat de València, and Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona).


Supervision

Supervision experience

PhD dissertations

She is currently supervising 3 dissertations in the PhD in History (UPF). They examine Spanish and US discourses on the colonisation of Guam; the nexus between gender, race, and war in Italian East Africa (1936–1941); and gender and sexuality in mid-twentieth-century Mexican cinema.

Master's dissertations

She has supervised 4 master's dissertations in the Master’s in World History and the Master’s in Asia-Pacific Studies in a Global Context (UPF). Topics include the visual culture of photography in the Crimean War; the anticolonial mobilisation of Nigerian women in the first half of the twentieth century; and the Japanese empire’s military sexual slavery system in Korea.

BA dissertations

She has supervised over 40 BA dissertations in the BA in Humanities and the BA in Global Studies (UPF), mostly focused on the study of gender and/or colonialism. Two of these projects have been awarded the UPF BA Dissertation Prize for Research in Gender (2021, 2022). One of them has additionally  won a Catalonia-wide award: the Francesca Bartrina Prize for the Best Bachelor's Thesis in Gender Studies by the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya (2022).


Research lines for prospective students

She welcomes proposals from students wishing to undertake PhD, master’s, and BA dissertations in the following research lines:

  • Global, transimperial, and connected history
  • History of colonial India and independent South Asia
  • Colonialism, anticolonialism, and decolonisation in the British empire
  • Colonial monarchies, princely states, and forms of indirect rule
  • Cultural history of war in European empires
  • Gender, race, and corporality in colonial contexts
  • Visual culture of colonialism
  • Any other topic related to her areas of expertise