Mariangela Ugarelli is a writer and a PhD candidate in Spanish Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. She has a Licenciatura in Hispanic Literature by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her study field encompasses Spanish American Gothic, fantastic and horror literatures, minor literatures, the female Gothic and eco-gothic. At the moment, she is working on her dissertation on Spanish American Gothic during the period of “entresiglos” (between 19th and 20th centuries).