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Eulalia C. Piñero Gil is full professor of North American Literature and Gender Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has been President of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) and the head of the English Philology Department of the UAM. She has developed her career as a professor in Purdue University, Saint Louis University, Marquette University, Universidad Complutense, UNED, Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Thanks to a Purdue University scholarship she completed a Master in Comparative Literature. Likewise, she also received a scholarship from the UAM to develop her research in the Rosenbach Foundation and Library in Philadelphia where she got the opportunity to work in the Marianne Moore archive. Her doctoral thesis titled “La obra de Marianne Moore: paradigma de una poética femenina” was the first research dedicated in Spain to this North American poet. She was awarded with a scholarship by the Canadian Government twice to procure research on Canadian poetry and literary theory at the University of Toronto. She has completed research stays with scholarships in Indiana University, University of Edinburgh, Purdue University, University of Toronto, Rutgers University Harvard University. She has published more than 105 books, articles and chapters in Spanish and foreign journals about women’s literature, emotions theory, gothic literature, gender studies, comparative literature, literature theory, North American and Canadian poetry, Asian American literature and North American Literature of the 19th Century. Besides, she has been plenary speaker on several occasions, has presented her research in 180 conferences and has taken part of managing and directing duties at organizations like SAAS. Besides, she has been the coordinator of the Máster “Anglo and North American Literary and Cultural Studies Estudios Literarios y Culturales” in the Saint Louis University, Missouri and is currently the coordinator of the UAM Master in “Literary and Cultural Studies of the English Speaking Countries”. She is part of the ANECA evaluation committee, the European Commission that evaluates research projects, and that she has taken part in 70 doctoral thesis committees.

PUBLICATIONS (among others):

• Si fuera hombre y otros relatos de Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Madrid: Cátedra, 2025.

• “Darkness There and Nothing More”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Popular Culture of Necrolatry and Thanatography”. Retrospective Poe. The Master, His Readership His Legacy. Edited by José Ramón Ibáñez & Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. 39-56.

• “’Thérèse was Love’s Prophet’: The Emotional Discourse and the Depiction of Feelings in Kate Chopin’s At Fault”. The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin’s At Fault. Ed. Heather Ostman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. 196-213.

• "‘Roots striking into the infinite past’: John Dos Passos’s Quest for the Modernist Cosmopolitan Subject in Rosinante to the Road Again." Eds. Aaron Shaheen & Rosa Baustista. The Interwar Chronicling of John Dos Passos: Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama. University of Tennessee Press, 2022. 304-331.

• “El cuerpo sensorial: “Las medias rojas” de Emilia Pardo Bazán y “A Pair of Silk Stockings” de Kate Chopin”. De cuento en cuento. Mujeres y relatos de largo recorrido. Eds. María Gª Lorenzo, Helena Guzmán, et al. Madrid: UNED, 2022. 135-147.

• Arce, Laura y Eulalia Piñero Gil. Eds. Live Deep and Suck All the Marrow of Life: H.D. Thoreau’s Literary Heritage. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020.

• Kate Chopin. Cuentos completos. Prólogo y edición de Eulalia Piñero Gil. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2020.

• El país de las mujeres de Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Introducción y edición crítica. Madrid: Escolar, 2019.

CONFERENCES (among others): 

• “La escritura es poder: el diálogo literario transatlántico entre Emilia Pardo Bazán y Kate Chopin desde una perspectiva comparada”. “School of Languages and Cultures”, Purdue University, Indiana, Estados Unidos. 10 de abril de 2023.

• “Breaking the Taboos of Motherhood in Kate Chopin’s ‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’ and The Awakening: The New American Mother”. 17th SAAS International Conference”. Universidad de Alicante, 8-10 de abril de 2025.

• “Canis ex machina: the Affective Role of Dogs in Edith Wharton’s “Kerfol”. Center for Women’s Studies. Ukranian Catholic University of Lviv. 9 de noviembre de 2022. (Plenary Talk)

• “From the Wasteland to the Arcadia: John Dos Passos’s Transcultural and Transliterary Journey to Spain”. European Association for American Studies Conference. EAAS. Celebrada en la UNED, Madrid, 6 de abril de 2022. (Plenary Talk)

• “Travelling Across Cultures: John Dos Passo’s Quest for a Transcultural Identity in Rosinante to the Road Again”. X International Interdisciplinary Conference AHLIST”. Purdue University/UAM. 18-23 de noviembre 2021. (Plenary Talk)

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS (among others):

• Evaluadora de 

  • Lectora. Revista de Dones i Textualitat.

  • AMLIT_American Literatures. Graz University, Austria

• Miembro de

  • Consejo de Redacción de Portal Education / Portal Editions, S.L.

  • Consejo de Redacción de Atlantis. (Associate Editor). Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos.

  • Consejo de Redacción de Journal of English Studies de la Universidad de la Rioja.

  • Junta Directiva de la European Association for American Studies (EAAS Board Member).

  • Kate Chopin International Society Website Advisory Committee.

• Presidenta de la Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), 2019-2023.

• Vocal de la Junta Directiva de SAAS: Spanish Association of American Studies, 2017-2019.

• Vocal 2ª de la Junta Directiva de AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios anglonorteamericanos).

• Especialista en traducción de la obra de Kate Chopin y miembro de la redacción de expertos de la Kate Chopin International Society desde 2012. http://www.katechopin.org/society.shtml#websitestaff.

PROYECTS (among others): 

• “CONSTEMAD: Constelaciones y redes digitales como herramientas para la documentación y análisis del patrimonio teatral”. Entidad financiadora: Comunidad de Madrid. Fecha de inicio: 2024 (21.10.2024). Investigador Principal: Julio Vélez Sainz (UCM). Investigadora colaboradora: Eulalia Piñero Gil (UAM). (PHS-2024/PH-HUM-437) (342,000 euros).

• “CARTEMAD: Cartografía digital, conservación y difusión del patrimonio teatral del Madrid contemporáneo”. Entidad Financiadora: Comunidad de Madrid. Fecha de inicio 2019. Investigador Principal: Julio Vélez Sainz (UCM). Investigadora colaboradora: Eulalia Piñero Gil.

• "El discurso y la representación del espacio como factor determinante, transformador y creador del cuerpo y de la identidad genérica en la literatura y en el teatro anglonorteamericano y canadiense desde finales de siglo XX hasta el presente". Entidad Financiadora: MEC; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Investigador Principal y Entidad: María Antonia Rodríguez Gago, UAM. Segunda Investigadora: Eulalia Piñero Gil, UAM

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María Laura Arce Álvarez is European PhD on American Literature and Comparative Literature with the PhD dissertation titled The Invention of the Space of Literature: Paul Auster's Fictionalization of Maurice Blanchot's Poetics" celebrated the 12th of September 2014 graded Cum Laude. She was awarded with the International Fellowship Exchange Program at Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) where she became a TA at the Romance Languages Department and started her doctoral research and with a Postgraduate Grant by the Spanish Ministry Education to obtain the European Doctorate in Northampton University (UK). She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and has been granted with a six period of research activity (Sexenio de investigación). Her field of study focuses on Postmodern American Literature, Multicultural Literature, Intersectionality, Queer and Gender Literary Theory. She has published several articles on Paul Auster's fiction, Native American Fiction, Queer and Transgender Fiction, American Fiction during the McCarthy Era and Short Fiction. She has currently published 23 academic research publications in national and international journals and publishing houses with highest impact factor, 3 of them focused on matrifocal narratives. She has attended many conferences and has published 2 books, one of them awarded with the Spanish Association of American Studies Best Monograph prize. She is currently working on her third book focused on motherhood and literature titled Intersectional Maternities: Re-creating Motherhood in 21st century American Literature (Brill, Rodopi 2024). She has participated since 2016 in the research group MIRCAALT and previously, she participated  in the research group SIIM Estudios sobre intermedialidad y mediación cultural in the English Department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She currently teaches Postmodern American Literature, Multicultural Literature and the MA course “Sex, Gender and Sexuality in American Literature.”

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS (among others): 

• Live Deep and Suck all the Marrow of Life: H.D Thoreau Literary Legacy. Edited by María Laura Arce Álvarez and Eulalia Piñero Gil. Vernon Press, Studies in Literary Series, 2020

• Paul Auster’s Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition. Rowman and Littlefield: Lexington Books, 2018.

• Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Books, 2016.

CONFERENCES (among others):

• "Mothering The American Dream: Surrogate Mothers In Joanne Ramos’ The Farm" 17th SAAS Conference, American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies. Universidad de Alicante. April 8-10, 2025.

• "Homenaje a Paul Auster." Universidad de Córdoba, October 8, 2024. (Plenary speaker). 

• "Immigrant Mothers and Geomaternal Border Narratives in Angie Cruz’ Dominicana (2019)" 35th Biennial EAAS-conference, titled “1924 – 2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited." Amerikahaus Munich. April 4-6, 2024. 

•  “Diane di Prima, the Female Voice of the Beat Generation” 15th SAAS Conference, “Fear Narratives” and their Role/Use in the United States. Universidad de Deusto, March 24-26, 2021. 

ARTICLES (among others): 

• "The Urban Essential Solitude of the Hunger Character: A Blanchotian Reading of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 66.2, 2025, pp. 296-309.

• "Queer Narrative Discourse and the Ungendered Narrator in Sara Taylor's The Lauras." Journal of Narrative Theory 54.1, 2024, pp. 89-106

•  "Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism." Alicante Journal of English Studies 40, 2024, pp. 43-62. 

• "Bodily matters: the female Dominican diaspora in Angie Cruz’s Dominicana." International Journal of English Studies 23.1, 2023, pp.163-178. 

• "Invisible or “The Fine Art of Scribbling:” Paul Auster’s Metafiction in Postmodern Narrative Discourse." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 20.2, 2023, pp. 33-48.

• “Growing up Queer: Crossing Gender Boundaries in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings.” Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 30, issue 2, 2021.

• “The Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s Short Story One Good Man.” Culture, Language, Representation, Volume 25, 2021.

• “Translation as Influence: A Dialogue Between Maurice Blanchot’s Literary Theory and Lydia Davis Short Fiction.” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Volume 9, Number 2, 2019.

• “The New Mordor: Dominican-American Identity and the Reconstruction of the Other in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Cultural Hispanic Heritage: Building an Identity. Alcalá de Henares: Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin-UAH, 2018.

• “Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium: The Writer as a Witness of his Literary Space.” Orbis Litterarum, Vol. 73, Issue 3, 2018.

• “Paul Auster’s Oracle Night: The Writing of a Literary Space.” European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 37, issue 2, 2018.

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Natalia Rodríguez Nieto holds a PhD on English Literature with a PhD dissertation titled "The Novel in English as Paradigm of Canadian Literary Identity" granted in 2012 by Universidad de Salamanca. After finishing her degree at Universidad de Salamnca, professor Rodríguez received several grants like those of AEEC and AEDEAN and began her specialization journey on Canadian literature. Having been given a La Caixa grant, she moved to Canada and began there both her specialization and her PhD dissertation at Queen's University. She has taught in several universities like UNED or Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and she is currently teaching at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she has been in charge of Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa en el Siglo XIX (I); Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa en el Siglo XIX (II) and Introducción a la Literatura Inglesa. Her current topics of interest are motherhood studies and transculturalism on Canadian literature which represent her main ongoing areas of research. Three new publications on these matters have seen the light in the current academic course from which “Writing the Unwritten: Childless New Woman Identity in Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of Today” (ELOPE Vol. 22 (2), 2025) stands out. She is also teaching the subject Transculturalism: new identity configurations in literatures in English at the Master in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she also supervises Master's thesis. Furthermore, she has attended several courses on teaching innovation and is currently member of a teaching innovation project at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS (among others): 

• The Novel English as Paradigm of Canadian Literary Identity: From Frances Booke to Sara Jeannette Ducan. Vol. 337. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2014.

• "Identity Crossings: Alternating Voices in Canada." Restless Travellers: Quests for Identity across European and Academic Time and Space ,Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 163-170. 

• "Canadian Literary Identity Revisited: A Multicultural And Feminist Approach to the Novel in English until the 20th Century." A Multicultural and Multifaceted Study of Ideologies and Conflicts related to the Complex Realities and Fictions of Nation and Identity represented in Contemporary Literature Written in English, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2009, pp.169-178. 

ARTICLES (among others): 

• “Joanna Ellen Wood: A Silenced Female Author in English Canadian Fiction,” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (RCEI), 91, 2025. (soon to be published) 

• "Bring what you Know of Life to Life: Alice Munro's Storytelling." VERBEIA, Revista de Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies. 1, 2015, pp. 275-285.

• ""The Issues of Otherness" in Canada's First English Novel: Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague." Canadaria 8, 2011, pp. 7–20, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14680729.

• "Silenced Identities: Early Black Writing in Canada. A View from the South: Contemporary English and American Studies", A view from the south: contemporary English and American studies: Selected Papers from 34th AEDEAN Conference, 2010, pp. 165-171.  

• "De la ficción a la realidad: memoria literaria e histórica de la participación canadiense en la Guerra Civil Española." Las Brigadas Internacionales: 70 años de memoria histórica. Amarú, 2007.

CONFERENCES (among others): 

• “Joanna Ellen Wood: A Silenced Female Author in Early English Canadian Fiction” 35th Conferencia Internacional AEDEAN. Universidad de Barcelona, 16-18 Nov. 2011.

• “Early English Canadian Literature” II Conferencia Internacional de ASYRAS (Association for Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies). Universidad de Salamanca, 6-8 Oct. 2011.

• "Silenced Identities: Early Black Writing in Canada." A view from the south: contemporary English and American studies. 34th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Almería, 2010.

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Anna M. Brígido-Corachán holds a PhD in Comparative Literature by the New York University (2017) and in English Rhetoric and Linguistics in Universitat de València (2008). She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Philology where she teaches subjects about North American literature and cinema in the English Studies Degree and the Advanced English Studies Master. Since 2018, she is the leading researcher (PI) of the research group LENA: Literaturas Étnicas Norteamericanas en un Contexto Global (LENA - GIUV2019-457) which contains the projects "Las literaturas (trans)étnicas norteamericanas en un contexto global: Representaciones, transformaciones y resistencias" (GV/2019/114) y "Reconfiguraciones de género, raza y clase social en la literatura étnica norteamericana de la era Obama/Trump" (GV/AICO/2021/249). Besides, she also coordinates the innovative education group NAPCED: Nuevas aplicaciones de la Pedagogía Crítica a la Educación Digital en la Literatura y la Cultura Audiovisual (GCID23_2580121), financed by the Servei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa de la Universitat de València. Her academic interests include US contemporary literature, literature and culture of ethnic minorities in the anglosphere, audiovisual languages, critical and decolonial pedagogy and the application of new technologies in education with an emphasis on the literature and history of North American indigenous communities, traditional native knowledge systems, ecocriticism and the intersections between literature and cinema.

PUBLICATIONS (among others):

• "The Self-Making, Worlding Processes of Contemporary Zapotec Literature". Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 7.2, 2023, pp. 39 - 57 . ISSN: 2096-4374

• Anna M. Brígido-Corachán, Alex Caamaño (2023) Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924-1993). Earth and Time (translations). Metamorphoses. The Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation, 31(1-2), pp. 72 - 77 . ISSN: 1068-7831

• "Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise". Western American Literature, 59.2, 2024, pp. 125 - 152 . ISSN: 0043-3462

• "'Like a great river flowing restless': Fugitive Figures across (Central) American Borders in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead." Roczniki humanistyczne, 72.11, 2024, pp. 51 - 65 . ISSN: 0035-7707

EDITOR OF: 

• Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives. Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature (Michigan State University Press, 2023) 

• Indigenizing the Classroom. Engaging Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture in Non-native Settings (Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2021)

• Coeditor of Géneros (meta)literarios digitales y creación audiovisual. Aplicaciones educativas y profesionales (Tirant Lo Blanch 2024).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (among others):

• Comunicar la investigación literaria en la era 4.0: Reseñas y ensayos digitales Géneros (meta)literarios digitales y creación audiovisual. Aplicaciones educativas y profesionales, 2024, pp. 37 - 62.

• Place-Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature, 2023, pp. ix - xxii.

• Relational Bodies in Motion: A Trans-Indigenous Reading of Ofelia Zepeda and Irma Pineda's Place-Based Poetry Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature, 2023, pp. 155 - 176.

• Reframing Our Pedagogical Practice.Teaching Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture through Indigenous-centered Methodologies Indigenizing the Classroom: Engaging Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture in Non-Native Settings . Volumen. 172, 2021, pp. 11 - 24.

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Anna Fernández-Caparrós graduated in English Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. After receiving in 2005 an FPI pre-doctoral fellowship, granted by the Comunidad de Madrid and the European Social Fund, she obtained her PhD in 2001 in the same university with a European doctoral thesis titled “La poética de la imaginación en el teatro de Sam Shepard”. She has developed her teaching and research activity in several Spanish universities and has completed research stays in diverse North American and European centres: City University of New York (CUNY), Georgia State University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Zurich. She is member of the research groups: Teatro contemporáneo europeo (siglos XVIII-XXI): Crítica, recepción y trasnacionalidad (TCE), GIUV2013-091 and Literature, Arts and Performance (LAP), GIUV2017-354. Furthermore, she has written and published her work on Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irene Fornés, Sarah Ruhl among other playwrights in specialised books and journals like the Contemporary Theatre Review, South Atlantic Review, Journal of Contemporary Drama and English, Atlantis or Primer Acto. She is the author of the book El teatro de Sam Shepard en el Nueva York de los sesenta (PUV 2015); coeditor, together with Natalie Gómez Handford and Stella Ramos, of the volume Poéticas por venir, políticas del duelo (Verbum, 2014); editor, with Noelia Hernando Real y Fabio L. Vericat, of the special number of the Complutense Journal of English Studies “Staging the Sounds of a Nation: The Poetic Soundscapes of the USA” (2015) y the special number of Studies in the Literary Imagination titulado "21st-Century American Crises: Reflections, Representations, Transformations. Part 1" (2017).

PUBLICATIONS (among others):

• “Drawing New Circles: On Paula Vogel’s Maieutics, Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Broken Language and the Seeds of Boricuan Inspiration”. Jones, Lee Brewer, The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy and Influences. Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama, 2023, pp. 140-154. ISBN: 9781350251724.

• “Horses and Cowboys on the Contemporary American Stage: The Horse as Prop in Sam Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse and Sarah Ruhl’s Late: a cowboy song.” Studies in Theatre and Performance, vol.43.1, 2023, pp. 91-107. DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2021.1902139.

• “Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in 21st-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Annie Baker’s The Flick.” Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis, edited by Avra Sidiroloupou. Routledge: 2022, pp.108-120. ISBN 9780367495312.

• “Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Faltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick”. Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, Vol. xxv, 2021, pp. 119–133. ISSN1697-7750·E-ISSN2340-4981. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/CLR.2021.25.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (among others):

• “El conflicto entre las pasiones y el compromiso político en el teatro de David Hare”, XIV Ciclo Autor: David Hare, el teatro como compromiso ético, 10 Festival de Escena Contemporánea, Centro Cultural Moncloa, 5 de Febrero 2010.

• “Circles of Fractured Togetherness in 21st-Century Drama”. Resilience in words and Bodies Symposium, Sorbonne Université, 20 March 2024.

• “American Dreams and Betrayals in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.” American Dreams, American Journeys LENA Research Seminar, Universitat de València, 12 December 2023.

• “Mothers on the Contemporary American Stage: Towards a New Poetics of Representation”, Gender Studies Graduate Seminar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 22 November 2023 (invited lecture).

MEMBER OF (among others):

• Title: La mujer emprendedora en las artes escénicas del siglo XIX en Gran Bretaña y su proyección en la actualidad.

Main Researcher: Laura Monrós Gaspar

Grupos de Investigación consolidable AICO, Conselleria d'Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana. AICO/2021/225

• Title: Entorno digital de investigación del teatro en lengua inglesa del siglo XIX escrito por mujeres. Fase 1 (GV/2018/A/106)

Main Researcher: Laura Monrós Gaspar

Projectes d’R+D+i desenvolupats per a grups d’investigació emergentes, Consellería d’ Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana.

• Title: “Fuentes francesas del teatro británico victoriano (1843-1901): Adaptación, industrial teatral e imperialismo cultural”. FFI 2013-47961-R.

Main Researcher: Ignacio Ramos Gay.

Proyectos I+D+I - Programa estatal de investigación, desarrollo e innovación orientada a los retos de la sociedad (convocatoria 2013)

• Title: “Construyendo Europa: literaturas en contacto y arquetipos literarios”. UV-UNV -PRECOMP14-206579. CLAU ESPECÍFICA 20140461"

Main Researcher: Laura Monrós Gaspar

Proyectos precompetitivos de la Universitat de València (Adjunct researcher).

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Elisa Fernández Rodríguez started her PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2023. Her research is currently funded by an FPU fellowship (FPU22/01485). She graduated in English Studies with honors at the University of Oviedo, where she also obtained a MEd in Secondary Education. She also graduated from the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, with a BA in English and Spanish Studies. Elisa also worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in Spanish at SUNY New Paltz (Fall 21-Spring 22). She holds an MA in English Literature from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she is currently pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Laura Arce Álvarez. Her research focuses on the US/Mexican border, the female body and how both are represented in contemporary literature.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (among others): 

• "In, Out and In-Between: Intersectional Space in Joseph Cassara’s The House of Impossible Beauties”. 46th AEDEAN Conference, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria. November 8-10, 2023.

• “Borderland Childhood: Frontier Identity in Young Migrants”. PopMec, Frontiers and Wastelands Conference. Universidad de Alcalá. November 27-28, 2023.

• “Violent and Alternative Mothering in What Night Brings, by Carla Trujillo”. 35th EAAS Conference, 1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, Amerikahaus Munich, Germany. April 4-6, 2024.

• “In for the same: Violence and Trauma in the Chicana Daughters of Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings”. BAAS Anual Conference, UK. April 10-12, 2024.

• “A border between your legs”: Motherhood and the Borderlands in Gabriela García’s Of Women and Salt” PopMec, Frontiers and Wastelands Conference. Universidad de Alcalá. November 25-27, 2024.

• “A Borderland Comparison Between the Mother-Daughter and the Mother-Son Bond in  Angie Cruz’s Dominicana (2019) and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022)” 17th SAAS Conference, American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies. Universidad de Alicante. April 8-10, 2025

Miguel Ángel Tamargo Del Pozo is currently pursuing his PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid under the supervision of Dr. Laura Arce Álvarez since 2022. He graduated in English Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid and currently holds an Master’s degree from the same institution in Literary and Cultural Studies of English-Speaking Countries. Miguel Ángel has also worked as a Teacher Assistant in Tufts University (2018-2019). His research areas are centered around the relationship between geographical space and contemporary queer literature, analyzing the “map” as both a metaphor and tool to understand how queer people move around maps of their own in contrast or in conflict with those given by society.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (among others): 

“Mapping the Queer Palestinian-American Hyphen in You Exist Too Much: A Narrative of Acknowledgement and Resistance.” North American Ethnic Literatures in the 21st Century: Intersectional/Transatlantic Perspectives, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, May 25-26, 2023.

“Queering the Map: Construction of Identity through the Body in Road Trip Narratives.” Borders and Crossings 2023 Conference, University of Lodz, Poland, 5-7 July 2023.

“Queer Identity and the Performance of Family: Ambivalent Diasporic Motherhood in Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much and Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart,” on the panel “Intersectional Maternities: Immigrant Motherhood in American Literature”, 35th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies, April 4-6, 2024.

“Failed Maps and Disorienting Narratives: Theoretical Approaches on Queer Mobility,” on the panel “Queer Disorientations in Contemporary American Literature”, British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, United Kingdom, April 10-12, 2024.

 “Motherhood as Compass: Diasporic Mothers and the Performance of a Queer Identity in Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart and Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much.” 17th SAAS Conference, University of Alicante, April 8-10, 2025.

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Gloria Lizana Iglesias is a PhD student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 2023. She pursued her degree on English Studies at the Universidad de Sevilla from 2018 to 2022 before obtaining her Master's degree on "Estudios Literarios y Culturales Británicos y de los Países de Habla Inglesa. Literatura, Cultura, Comunicación y Traducción" at UAM (2022-2023). Her doctoral research focuses on women's space in novels from the 19th to 20th centuries authored by women, specifically on how female protagonists claim space and how it connects to their identities socially and physically. In this sense, Ms. Lizana Iglesias' research fields range from Gender Studies and Spatial Studies to Romanticism and Modernism in Northamerican and English literature. 

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND ARTICLES (among others): 

• "An Identity Problem: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990) in HBO's Euphoria (2019)" REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 6 (1), 55–71, (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2024.6.2559

• "Women Within Walls: Literary Spaces in Kate Chopin's Work" in Dykinson's monograph Mujeres entre Oriente y Occidente: Una aproximación crítica feminista a la literatura universal, edited by Leticia de la Paz de Dios and Ana María Crespo Gómez (2024). ISBN: 978-84-1070-951-5

• “El Espacio Literario en la Obra de Kate Chopin” II Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Literarios Feministas. Universidad de Barcelona. March 11-13, 2024.

• "Subverting Space: Spatial Dynamics and Subjectivity in Kate Chopin's Work" 17th SAAS Conference, American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies. Universidad de Alicante. April 8-10, 2025.

Lucía Aréjula Muñoz is a graduate student of English Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After having taken part in an Erasmus exchange at the University of Jyväskylä where she engaged in both academic training and educational programs dedicated to the development of teaching skills, she graduated with honors in her Bachelor Degree. She also holds UAM’s Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies of English Speaking Countries and she is working along with the English Philology Department in an internship program having received a Beca de Colaboración. She has also been working on academic papers and conferences developing her experience with the intention of pursuing a PhD in the near future. Her research interests include mother-daughter relationships, intersectional studies and queer and feminist literary theory. 

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (among others): 

• "Literature Portrays and Criticises Gender Concepts: A Practical Example in The Ballad of the Sad Café." Gender Seminar, University of Jyväskylä, October 2022. 

• "Mothering Practices in Queer Literature: The House of Impossible Beauties by Josseph Cassara." Gender Graduate Seminar MIRCAALT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, November 2024. 

• “The deconstruction of woman and mother: the experience of Audre Lorde as a black lesbian author.” 10th ASYRAS Conference, Universidad de Murcia, 23 May 2025. 

• "Building “houses” with marginal mothering practices in the centre: The House Of Impossible Beauties." On the Periphery of History: Marginal Lives in Contemporary Biofiction International Conference, Universitat de València, 13 June 2025.