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Mireia Vives Martínez holds a B.A. in English Studies (2016) and a B.A. in Modern Languages and their Literatures (2018), as well as a PhD in Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and their Applications (2022) from the Universitat de València. She works currently as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the same university. She is a member of the Research Group RIALE ‘’Relaciones interculturales Alemania-España‘’ (GIUV2013-078) (https://www.uv.es/riale), whose main objective is to establish the basis for a comprehensive research on intercultural relations between Spain and German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Her research interests include issues of female agency in German literature, a topic she has explored in her doctoral thesis (‘Unschuldig sterb ich und doch in Schuld: La culpa como tema en la obra de Theodor Fontane a partir del caso de Effi Briest’) and intercultural relations between Germany and Spain based on the accounts of nineteenth-century German and English women travellers to Spain.