Lydia Freire Gargamala is a PhD candidate in Advanced English Studies at the University of Vigo. Her research examines eighteenth-century Irish women’s writing through an ecofeminist and Gothic lens, with particular attention to female agency, otherness, and the entanglements of gender, landscape, and coloniality, focusing on authors such as Elizabeth Griffith and Regina Maria Roche. She has presented her work at AEDEAN, AEDEI, and the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conferences, among other fora, and recently completed a research stay at the University of Galway, where she expanded her research on Eighteenth-Century Irish Literature under the guidance of specialists in cultural history. Her publications include “‘There Is Something Accursed in Wealth’: Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904)” and “Rebellion and Wilderness: Female Agency and Irish Nature in Elizabeth Griffith’s The History of Lady Barton (1771)”, alongside several scholarly reviews. Her current project maps how Irish Gothic forms register climate, care, and vulnerability, reframing eighteenth-century narratives for contemporary debates in ecocriticism and gender studies.
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