Group members

  • CARLA MARIA RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ

    Category:
    Senior Lecturer
    Departament:
    English, French, and German Philology
    Area:
    English Philology
    E-mail:
    Phone:
    985104565

    Brief CV:

    Carla Rodríguez González is Senior lecturer in English at the U. of Oviedo. She started working at Spanish universities in 2000, when she was granted a scholarship (Principality of Asturias) to fund her PhD. She teaches contemporary literature in the English Studies degree and several modules on contemporary transcultural literature and gender in the Erasmus Mundus GEMMA and in the Gender and Diversity Master's Programmes at the U. of Oviedo. Her research focuses on contemporary Scottish writing, as well as on postcolonial, gender and cultural studies. She analyses the literary representation of identities in the framework of the social and political changes undergone in Scotland in the past decades (independence referendum, devolution of the Parliament, Brexit) and of the glocal phenomena that characterize our world, paying special attention to the transnational coalitions suggested in contemporary fiction. Her research has been awarded the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado and the Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura (distinction to PhD and BA theses, U. Oviedo). She has published 4 full books: Escritoras escocesas en la nueva literatura nacional (U. Illes Balears, 2013), María Estuardo (Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 2006), Jackie Kay: biografías de una Escocia transcultural (Oviedo: KRK, 2004) and an electronic version of her PhD thesis (U. Oviedo, 2004), which were positively reviewed in specialized journals (Scottish Studies Review, Complutense Journal English Studies). She has translated (annotated edition with an introduction) short stories by Jackie Kay and Suhayl Saadi, published in two bilingual editions (2008, 2022). She has co-edited 5 more books: Nación, diversidad y género (Anthropos, 2010); The Plots of History in Performance (Cambridge Scholars, 2008); Historia y representación en la cultura global (KRK, 2008); Debating the Afropolitan (Routledge, 2019) and Performing Cultures of Equality (Routledge, 2022). She has guest edited 3 special issues: Papers on Language and Literature, Complutense Journal of English Studies and European Journal of English Studies. She has published articles in leading international journals, as well as book chapters in collective volumes published by Brill, Peter Lang, Rodopi, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield. She has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, York and UMASS. She is a member of the research group Intersecciones (U. Oviedo). She was Copy editor of Atlantis (2012-2014). She was the coordinator of the joint degree programme AEL (Applied European Languages, 01/09/2015-17/11/2021) and has been the coordinator of the Gender and Diversity Master's Programme at the University of Oviedo since 2019.

    Areas of Interest:

    • Literature, national and gender identity; Contemporary British and Scottish Literature; postcolonial and gender theory; auto/biography; literary representation of urban spaces.