Valentina Aparicio

Valentina Aparicio is Education and Recognition Adviser at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on global Romanticism and the politics of race and nation, particularly in Latin America and Britain. She has written on Robert Southey’s works on Brazil, as well as on the traveller Maria Graham, and the intellectual José María Blanco White. In 2022 she was awarded the Carl H. Pforzheimer Grant (Keats–Shelley Association of America), and she has also received funding from the Royal Historical Society, the British Association for Romantic Studies and the Chilean Ministry of Education. Valentina has published articles in European Romantic Review, Essays in Romanticism and Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo. She is currently working on her first monograph titled Robert Southey’s Latin American and Caribbean Works: The Setting Sun of Empire.