About
Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of English Studies. She obtained her PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona with a dissertation on the satirical post-9/11 novel The Zero (2017; extraordinary award). Her current research is focused on 21st-century US literature, with a special interest in the intersections between “negative” affect, precarity studies, and the rise of right-wing populisms in recent years. She was formerly an Irish Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland (2018-2023), as well as Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College in the United States (2020-2022). She is part of the research team at ADHUC-Research Center for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality (UB) and of the project “(Un)Housing. Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature” (PID2020-115172GB-I00) funded by MINECO.Education
PhD, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. Dissertation title: Of Heroes and Victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the Satirical Post-9/11 Novel
MA in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities, Universitat de Barcelona, 2011.
BA in English Philology, Universitat de Barcelona, 2009. Publications
Edited book:
American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Book chapter: “
On the Meanings of ‘American Reality’” in
American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Article: “
Competing Fantasies and Alternative Realities: Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House.”
Journal of American Studies, 13 December 2021.
Article: “
Reading Transatlantically in the Era of Trump.” IAAS 50th Anniversary special issue on Irish American Studies,
IJAS Online, vol. 9, 2020.
Article: “
Under the Radar: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the State of Irony and Satire after 9/11.”
Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 39.1 (2017).
Article: “
9/11 Fiction and the Death of Irony.”
Alluvium Journal. 21st century writing / 21st century approaches, 4.4 (2015).
Book chapter: “
Los nuevos papeles del crimen. Alteraciones en los roles de género en la narrativa criminal: víctimas y agresoras.”
Papeles del crimen. Mujeres y violencia en la ficción criminal. Eds. María Xesús Lama, Elena Losada, Dolores Resano. Universitat de Barcelona, Colección CRIC (2019)
Book review: “
Buenos Aires y las provincias. Relatos para desarmar.”
452ºF Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, 18, pp. 210-214 (2018).
Book review: “
Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina’s Dictatorship: The Performances of Blood.”
452ºF. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, 14, pp. 231-234 (2016).
Book review: “
Rewriting Terror: The 9/11 Terrorists in American Fiction.”
Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 36.2, pp. 249-253 (2014).
Book review: “
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?”
Lectora. Revista de dones i textualitat, 17, pp. 254-256 (2011).
Edited volume:
Papeles del crimen. Mujeres y violencia en la ficción criminal. Eds. María Xesús Lama, Elena Losada, Dolores Resano. Universitat de Barcelona, Colección CRIC (2019)
Projects
Making Sense of the Contemporary: Fiction as Political Intervention in the Era of Trump (Irish Research Council)
Transatlantic Approaches to Contemporary Literature in the Era of Trump (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship) Memberships
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS)
Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS)
