Carmen Medina holds a PhD from the Universitat de Lleida with the thesis “El erotismo en la primera producción literaria de Ana Rossetti (1980-1991)” (2022). This research deals with the study of the theme of eroticism in the work of Ana Rossetti in relation to the social and cultural context of the Transition and the early years of democracy. In particular, it analyzes the representation of sexual liberation in the context of the “Movida madrileña”, the retrospective look at the sentimental and sexual education received during the national Catholic Spain and the events that led to the democratic disenchantment, including the emergence of HIV / AIDS. This research resulted in the monograph “Inefable delirium”: eroticism in Ana Rossetti (1980-1991) (2024, Iberoamericana Vervuert). Her work focuses on the study of contemporary Spanish poetry written by women. Among other results, she has coordinated the monograph “Voces líricas de ambos lados del Atlántico. La poesía escrita por mujeres en español en el siglo XXI (2000-2021)” in la Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas.
Currently, she is a member of the research projects: “The Literature of the Spanish Democratic Transition and European Transitional Narratives” (PID2019-107821GB-I00) funded by MINECO, executed at the University of Zaragoza and directed by María Ángeles Naval and “EXPEDIAS - Experiences of Presentism in Spain: Dispositivos, Artes y Saberes (2022-2024)”, funded by the Laboratoire d'Excellence ‘Les passés dans le présent’, a consortium that brings together the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique de France), the University Paris Nanterre and the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and directed by Brice Chamouleau.
He has made several international stays during his academic career. In the framework of the postdoctoral contract Margarita Salas made a research stay at the University Paris Nanterre (France). Also, during her predoctoral training she did research stays at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).