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  • MARÍA DEL CARMEN ALFONSO GARCÍA

    Category:
    Senior Lecturer
    Departament:
    Spanish Philology
    Area:
    Spanish Literature
    E-mail:
    Phone:
    985104638

    Brief CV:

    My research focuses on contemporary Spanish literature from an interdisciplinary perspective that comprises history and literary theory, cultural studies and gender. It concentrates on literary and artistic works produced in the margins of the canon that have not received general critical attention, and uses theoretical approaches that have not commonly been used in contemporary Spanish literature. My main aim is to recuperate and re-read authors and works within their cultural and symbolic framework.

    My research has been awarded with distinctions such as the Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura (distinction to the best undergraduate thesis) and the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (distinction to the best PhD thesis) in the University of Oviedo. I have disseminated my research in highly specialised national and international research fora and, given my expertise, I have been invited to give conferences in the University of Ghent (Belgium), the Utrecht University (Netherlands), the University of Passau (Germany) and in Amherst College (Massachussets, USA), as well as in several distinguished Spanish universities. All these invitations have been made by consolidated research groups in my field of research.

    In 1998 I published the monograph Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, una figura del decadentismo hispánico (Department of Spanish Philology, University of Oviedo), which has become an essential reference to study this author's work. It was reviewed in leading journals such as Ínsula or Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, as well as in the cultural sections of some of the most important Spanish newspapers: "Babelia" (El País) and "El Cultural" (La Razón). I have published articles in national and international journals of Spanish literature and culture (Arbor, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Estreno or Romance Studies among others) and have participated in collective books by leading publishers (for instance, Porrúa or Iberoamericana/Vervuert).

    I am a member of the research group Intersecciones. Literaturas, culturas y teorías contemporáneas in the University of Oviedo. I am also a member of Fenix: Network for Research on Female Exiles and Refugees, of Utrecht University and coordinated by Professor Helena Houvenaghel. I have taken part in 11 research projects (Spanish National Research Actions, R&D Actions of the Government of the Principality of Asturias and Research Actions of the University of Oviedo) and have been a member of the organizing or scientific committee of several international conferences.

    Areas of Interest:

    • In the area of Contemporary Spanish Literature: gender perspective (literature, national and gender identity; gender and representation; discourses of self-representation; literature, space, and gender), the Fin de Siècle imaginary (XIX) and its intertextuality, the connections between press and literature, and literature from the Spanish Republican Exile.