I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. I am currently working on my dissertation, titled “Spanish Child Prodigies and the Creation of National Myths: The Construction of ‘Spanishness’ Through Popular Culture During the Spanish Miracle (1955–1975),” which examines the narrative constructed around the child and adolescent artists Joselito, Marisol, Rocío Dúrcal, and Raphael through the lens of Roland Barthes’s Mythologies. In my analysis, I focus on how child prodigies served as new role models for the first generation of postwar Spaniards consuming popular music, film, and merchandizing. I have presented several aspects of this project at conferences both in the United States and in Europe, and in spring of 2023 I was awarded the prestigious Margaret Goheen Summer Research and Travel Fellowship to conduct research for this project at the Spanish National Library and the Spanish Cinemathèque in Madrid. This academic year, I am co-organizing the talk series “Smells, Sounds, and Textures of Iberian Modernity,” with points of connection between Iberian Cultural Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Film and Media Studies, History, Religion, Music, and others.