August 2005- August 2009 Member of the Research Group: “Diego de Saavedra Fajardo y las corrientes intelectuales y literarias del humanismo.” Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España. Directed by Prof. Jorge Garcia. University of Girona, Spain.
August 2002- May 2005 Member of the Transatlantic Research Group. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. Directed by Prof. Juan Luis Suarez. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON.