Marisa Martínez Pérsico earned her undergraduate degree in Letters from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and her doctorate in Spanish and Hispano-American Literature from the Universidad de Salamanca. Since 2010 she has lived in Italy, where she works as a professor of Spanish Language and Translation at the Università di Udine. Since 2017 she has been a corresponding researcher of the CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas of Argentina), and she coordinated the Humanities Commission of the RCAI (Red de Científicos Argentinos en Italia / Programa Raíces of Argentina’s Ministry of Education). She has received awards for her research from the Universidad de Lanús, UNESCO, and the Universidad de Salamanca. She also writes poetry and fiction.