Biography

Carolina Blutrach has a degree in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and received her Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence (2009). She has worked as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universitat de València and has enjoyed a Postdoctoral Fellowship to Researchers and Cultural Creators of the BBVA Foundation. She works on the social and cultural history of the European aristocracy in the Early Modern period (sixteenth to eightneenth centuries), with a particular interest in written culture, material culture, forms and uses of memory and the history of family and gender. She is the author of the monograph El III conde de Fernán Núñez, 1644-1721. Vida y memoria de un cortesano práctico (The 3rd Count of Fernán Núñez, 1644-1721. Life and memory of a practical courtier, Marcial Pons-CSIC, 2014), editor of a special issue on El viaje y su memoria en la construcción de identidades, siglos XVI-XIX (Travel and memory in the construction of identities, 16th-19th Centuries, 2016) and co-editor with Giulia Calvi of Sibling Relations and Family History: Conflicts, co-operation and gender roles in the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries (special issue in the European Review of History, 17, 5, 2010), among other publications.