Hypertangible: The Materiality of the Book as a Space for Creative Experimentation in the Digital Era
Conference 2025 'Research & Teaching - Exploring Academia'
AMPS Prague
My research focuses on the potential of the physical book as a communication tool in the digital age. Through articles, conferences, lectures, publications, and a doctoral thesis I completed in 2024, I explore what the materiality of the book can offer in an age of screens.
My choice and interest in the topic of materiality is a combination of different factors: a love of reading and writing, a background in architecture, studies in graphic design, a natural attraction to the form of the printed object, and an interest in understanding what a book is and what reading on paper entails.
Ph.D. Thesis – Book layout and design in unconventional printed novels: materiality and reading in the digital era
Tesis doctoral
Department of Typography and Graphic Communication (University of Reading, UK)
The unconventional novel in the twenty-first century: printed narratives influenced by digital media
American Printing History Association - Conference 2024 (New York) ‘Printing History, Past, Present and Future’
Constructing the hypertangible novel: ‘Woman’s World’ and writing as design process
SHARP 2024 Conference ‘Global Book Cultures’
University of Reading (UK)
Diseñoescritura: Construyendo la novela no convencional del siglo XXI
IV Congreso Internacional ‘En los márgenes de la literatura’
Universidad de Salamanca
Designwriting in ‘House of Leaves’: The role of design in unconventional novels of the 21st century
Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing 2nd Postgraduate Symposium
University of Reading (UK)
Una historia de amor entre libro y contenido: la novela rosa en España
Capítulo de libro en Iluminar la letra. El libro ilustrado y su recepción en España Editorial Comares Co-autora con Victoria E. Bonet Solves
De texto literario a objeto físico: la experiencia de lectura en la era digital
Capítulo de libro en El libro, de lo material a lo simbólico Editorial Peter Lang
The unconventional form of the novel as a place of encounter: the reader’s self-awareness
Artículo publicado en Networking Knowledge MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
De texto literario a objeto físico: la experiencia de lectura en la era digital
Congreso Internacional de Arte y Literatura CIAL ‘Diálogos entorno al libro: texto e imagen’
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
El diseño de libros y la reinvención de la literatura
I Congreso Design Challenges
Barreira Arte + Diseño (Valencia)
Instructions on How to Read a Blank Book
Artículo publicado en Place, People & Time
Pride & Prejudice & Textures
XXII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Arte ‘Vestir la arquitectura’ Co-autora con Victoria E. Bonet Solves y MªJesús Piqueras Gómez
Universidad de Burgos
Lo sublime frente a lo pintoresco: ‘Orgullo y prejuicio’ y ‘Jane Eyre’
Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine Co-autora con Victoria E. Bonet Solves y MªJesús Piqueras Gómez
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid