Beatriz Ferrús, new director of the UAB Doctoral School

Ferrús was director of the Department of Spanish Studies and coordinator of the bachelor's degree in Spanish Language and Literature. She is a specialist in Spanish-American literature, mainly in two areas: convent literature during the viceregal period and the formation of the figure of the professional writer in the 19th century.

She is part of the research team of the project Fastos, simulacros y saberes en la América virreinal PID2020-113841GB-I00 and has published the monographs Discursos cautivos: vida, escritura, convento, Heredar la palabra: cuerpo y escritura de mujeres and La monja de Ágreda, historia y leyenda de la dama azul en Norteamérica. She edited the Vida de la venerable Sor Francisca Josefa de Castillo with Nuria Girona, and the Tratado de la redondez de la tierra de Sor María de Ágreda with Judith Farré. She also published the book Mujer y literatura de viajes en el siglo XIX and made incursions into the study of Latin American women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is co-director of the journal Mitologías hoy. Revista de crítica y pensamiento latinoamericanos.

The UAB Doctoral School, founded in 2014, organises the academic programmes and activities of the University's PhD programmes and shares its headquarters with the Graduate School in the Can Miró building located on the Bellaterra campus. The school works with the commitment to respond to the challenges of the moment and of society, to develop policies of quality and continuous improvement of PhD programmes and to promote research, experimental development and innovation as pillars of sustainable economic development and social welfare. Ferrús takes over from Imma Ponte, lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.