Ana Fernández-Blázquez

Ana Fernández-Blázquez is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Her research focuses on the intersection between Law and Literature, particularly within the Iberian Early Modern and Contemporary eras. She is passionate about literary approaches to non-fiction as a genre, as well as the convergence between languages, cultural identities and conflict. Other interests include witchery and magical perspectives in Early Modern Iberia, legal cultures and Comparative Literature. In particular, she has worked previously literature on contemporary terrorism. 

Born in Oviedo (Asturias), she holds a Bachelor or Arts in Hispanic Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Bachelor of Laws from UNED. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she had the opportunity to complete an Erasmus+ program at Sorbonne Université in Paris and to participate in the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School at the University of Edinburgh. In the 2023 call, she was awarded a fellowship by the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation.