Irene Sanchez Sempere

Irene Sanchez Sempere is a researcher affiliated with the Facultad de Educación at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She holds a doctorate from Universidad de Murcia (2024) with a thesis on Cervantine echoes in late 20th-/early 21st-century Spanish novels.

• Key Research Interests:
  • Spanish Golden Age Drama
  • Textual Criticism and Intertextuality
  • Contemporary Spanish Literature
  • Metafiction and Narrative Theory
  • Gender Studies and Women's Literature

Recent Publications focus on intertextual relationships between Cervantes and modern authors like Luis Mateo Díez, Javier Marías, and José Jiménez Lozano, analyzing narrative techniques, fictional authors, and thematic continuities. Her work explores how contemporary fiction reinterprets Cervantine motifs through impostors, structural innovation, and dialogic storytelling.

Collaboration Network includes scholars like Ana Calvo Revilla (Universidad San Pablo CEU) and Mariano García (Università degli Studi di Milano). She has supervised PhD work and contributes to journals such as Pasavento, Itinerarios, and Anales Cervantinos.