Full Professor at the University of Costa Rica. Researcher associated to the Transcaribe Network. Professor at the PhD programme for Cultural Studies and other PhD programmes of the University of Costa Rica. She has published several books, Eros pervertido. La novela decadente en el modernismo hispanoamericano (Biblioteca Nueva, 2010) among them, with which she obtained the Essay Award of the Costa Rican Academy of Language in 2012. In 2015 she organised the international conference «Entre literatura y medicina. Narrativas transatlánticas de la enfermedad (América Latina, el Caribe y España)» in San José (Costa Rica).