Laura Buitrago , ORCID: 0000-0001-8466-7600 is a predoctoral research fellow at the Department of Humanities: History, Geography and Art at the Carlos III University of Madrid, where she is working in the ANTIMO project (The Modernized Antiquity: Greece and Rome at the Service of Civilization, Order and Progress in Spain and Latin America) directed by professors Mirella Romero Recio and Jesús Salas Álvarez. She also took part in the RIPOMPHEI project (Reception and Influence of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Spain and Ibero-America) also directed by Professor Romero Recio. Her thesis studies the Latin American travelers who visited the Neapolitan sites, and the reception of the trip in their countries of origin. Her research focuses on classical reception in Latin America, women’s history and cultural studies. Email: labuitra@hum.uc3m.es.