About Alicia
Writer, independent researcher and language teacher.
I bring literature, Gothic stories and lived experience into conversation, exploring questions of grief, identity and belonging.
Creator of The Gothic Descent · Based in Gelida near Barcelona · Working in English and Spanish.
A path through language, literature and lived experience
For more than twenty years, teaching languages has meant listening, asking questions and helping people find words for what they want to express.
Alongside teaching, I have continued to write and explore the stories and images that stay with me. Over time, connections have emerged between this creative work and my research.
The Gothic Descent brings these threads together through essays, publications and conversation.
Language teaching → Writing & research → The Gothic Descent
The questions I keep returning to
Loss runs through my work: the people we lose, the roles we outgrow, and the parts of ourselves that inherited expectations leave little room for.
Motherhood is a particularly strong thread within this wider exploration. Gothic literature and Jungian perspectives offer ways to question, connect and reconsider.
Selected writing & research
Mary Winchester as a fragmented Self
The Monstruous Mother
In Horror and Mother/hoods in Global Cultural Imaginaries · Demeter Press, 2026
Motherhood, loss and psychological haunting.
Palabras no escritas
In Diario para madres escritoras II · 2023
A contribution to a collective exploration of motherhood.
The Great Mother in Dark
Conversations & collaborations
Romancing the Gothic · 2021 The Gothic and Second Language Acquisition
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Complutense University of Madrid · 2021 The ghost as a social figure
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Haunted Shores · 2023 The sea and the unconscious in Supernatural
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FOGO · 2023 Folklore and female representation in Mirall trencat
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