Professor at the National University of Colombia (Ph.D in Spanish from the University of Massachussetts, Amherst). She is co-editor of La araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, the anthologies Literatura y cultura, ¿Y las mujeres?,y de Literatura y diferencia. She transcribed and edited the work of Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727). The Ayacucho Foundation published her edition of Su vida by Madre Castillo (2007). In 2019 she published Conventual Voices (University of Alicante) in collaboration with Beatriz Ferrús. Currently, she continues to work in colonial archives.