Geometry, Frans Floris (1557)
Estudios sobre Europa,
el mundo mediterráneo
y su difusión atlántica
(HUM 680)
Natalia Maillard Álvarez
Since she started her academic career her main research field has been book history, especially the history of reading and the book trade in the Hispanic Monarchy during the 16th and 17th centuries. In her doctoral thesis she studied the diffusion and circulation of written culture in Seville during the second half of the 16th century.
After her PhD, she spent three years at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI), first as Visiting Fellow (postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Spanish Government), and later thanks to a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to develop the research project “Books and readers between the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas towards America. Seville and Florence” (2010-2012). During that time, she had also the opportunity of broadening her fieldwork in different archives and libraries in Europe and Latin America.
During her stay at the EUI she developed two corresponding lines of research: on the one hand, she analysed the influence of Italian culture on Spanish and Latin American readers during the 16th and 17th centuries. In the other hand, she studied the trade networks established by booksellers between Europe and Latin America during the same period. Between 2015 and 2016 she was EURIAS Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon, where she developed the project “Books trade networks between France, the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas (1470-1680)”.
Between 2018 and 2021 she was the PI of the research project HAR2017-82362-P, where, together with a team of international scholars, she could study the role of international publishing firms in the Hispanic Monarchy. Since September 2023 she is PI of the research project RedLibros2: Book Trade Networks in the Hispanic Monarchy: Markets, Agents, and Financial Architecture. 1501-1648 (PID2022-137793NB-100).
In 2012 she became a Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University Pablo de Olavide. In 2016 she was granted a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship at the same institution. At that university she taught undergraduate and master students. Since December 2021 she has been Associate Professor (Profesora Titular de Universidad).