Maria Reyes Ferrer

María Reyes Ferrer is an Associate Professor of Italian Philology at the University of Murcia's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, specializing in contemporary Italian women's writing. She earned her PhD from the University of Sevilla (2014) with a thesis on Adriana Assini's historical novels, supervised by Dr. Pedro Luis Ladrón de Guevara Mellado and Dr. Mercedes Arriaga Flórez. Her research group focuses on Romance Literatures with emphasis on gender and intertextuality.

Ferrer's scholarship examines motherhood representations, feminist revisions of historical narratives, and Neapolitan cultural identity. Key research strands include: 1) infertility narratives and reproductive technologies in 21st-century fiction, 2) matriarchal structures in Neapolitan literature, and 3) Elena Ferrante's deconstruction of maternal archetypes. Her 2024-2025 publications analyze reproductive tourism and patriarchal violence in Italian/Spanish contexts.

Recent articles demonstrate consistent methodological approach combining feminist theory with close textual analysis. Major themes include trauma representation (2024), spatial metaphors of motherhood (2021), and canonical re-evaluation of authors like Matilde Serao (2018-2019). She maintains cross-cultural perspectives through Italian-Spanish comparative studies.