Biography
As a textile historian, she is interested in the materiality of textiles as agents of economic and cultural change in processes of circulation from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Her holistic approach to textile history is grounded in a BA (Hons) in Textile Design (ESDI, Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona, with an Erasmus exchange at ÉnsAD, Paris), a BA (Hons) in the History of Art (Universitat de Barcelona, with exchanges at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the University of Pennsylvania), a two-year MA in the History of Design (Victoria and Albert Museum/ Royal College of Art), and an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Glasgow, funded by a Lord Kelvin-Adam Smith PhD scholarship. Her thesis, titled ‘Connecting Threads: The Transnational Textile Trade between Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Spanish-Speaking World’, employed a transnational approach to explore the reciprocal impact of textile traders, recipient societies, and intermediaries in the Anglo-Hispanic textile trade between the 1830s and 1914. In her research, she combines business records with other archival and material sources. She has published articles in Fashion Theory, Enterprise & Society (forthcoming), and, with the rest of the Connecting Threads team, in The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Most recently, she received a research grant from the Karun Thakar Fund for a forthcoming article. For the past two years, she has worked as a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the digital humanities project Connecting Threads,