Assistant Professor | General Education

Lucía Orsanic holds a PhD in Literature from the Catholic University of Argentina. She has a Master's degree in Hispanic Medieval Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she obtained a scholarship from the Social Fund for Students of the Autonomous University of Madrid. She was a scholarship holder of the Carolina Foundation at the School of Hispanic Lexicography of the Royal Spanish Academy, in Madrid. She has been a guest speaker at various forums, including the Puerto Rican Foundation for Humanities and the Federico de Onís Seminar, of the Faculty of Hispanic Studies of the University of Puerto Rico. She has participated in national and international conferences and published various academic articles in specialized journals. She is the author of the book The Snake Woman in the Castilian books of chivalry. Form and archetype of the monstrous feminine (Madrid, La Ergástula, 2014); A story for Irupé: The lion without a mane (Buenos Aires, Casa de Gatos, 2016) and editor of The one who gave birth to you. Puerto Rican anthology of birth stories (Puerto Rico, Ediciones del Flamboyán, 2022). In the local press, she has written about feminist motherhood for spaces such as 80 degrees y AllPRShe is co-founder and editor at Ediciones del Flamboyán (San Juan, Puerto Rico).