María Bovea Pascual (Segovia, Spain) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, with a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on late 20^th and 21^st century literature and art production in the Hispanic and Francophone world, related with feminist writing and theory, gender and sexuality studies, and looking for new subjectivities and a literature of transgression. She also works as a Research Assistant at the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos, and collaborates in the CORPEEU project (Corpus del Español en los Estados Unidos), led by Francisco Moreno.

María holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM.) She earned the Academic Excellence Honors Award (2017) and a Research Grant (2018) at the Department of Hispanic Literatures at the UCM, which allowed her to collaborate with the Instituto de Teatro de Madrid (ITEM) during her undergraduate studies. She also holds a MA in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, and has a thorough command of Spanish, French, English and German. By partaking in the Real Colegio Complutense fellowship, María hopes to participate in RCC projects and to contribute to the Spanish community at Harvard.