Due to the COVID my summer plans changed. I was not able to travel and visit the archives in Caracas and Bogotá I was supposed to, since all the travel restrictions and borders were (and are) closed. I was able, though, to dedicate myself to research in many digital archives throughout the world and thanks to the CLACLS fellowship I was able to stay at home researching, reading and writing my dissertation instead of teaching an extra Summer Course that would have not allowed me to dedicate so much time to my project. I was also able to participate in a couple of online courses about Latin American Arts, Literatures and Cultures, somehow related to my research. Those courses, I believe, enriched my perspective and opened wide new horizons. My focus, now, is on already published or scanned documents on the topics and period of my research-Natural History books written in and about South America in the 18th Century. The idea of working with unpublished material will have to wait, now, till traveling and visiting faraway archives that are not digitalized is an option again. I’m working, then, with materials that are already published or digitalized, and trying to think about those materials from a different perspective, trying to understand them in unexplored and productive ways.