Group members

  • PATRICIA BASTIDA RODRIGUEZ

    Category:
    INVESTIGADOR DE OTRO CENTRO I+D
    Departament:
    FILOLOGÍA INGLESA, FRANCESA Y ALEMANA
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    Brief CV:

    Patricia Bastida Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research focuses on contemporary women's writing and particularly on issues of gender, identity and (neo)cosmopolitanism in 21st-century diasporic fiction. She has taught courses in Anglophone literatures both at graduate and postgraduate levels, as well as a diversity of courses on gender and writing, a field she has specialised in since her doctoral years. She has two six-year research periods and more than 40 publications, including articles in top-tier journals (Q1-Q3) such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The European Journal of English Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature or Atlantis. She has authored two books (Santas improbables. Revisiones de mitología cristiana en autoras contemporáneas, KRK, 1999; Santa o Hereje. La otra Teresa de Ávila en Impossible Saints de Michèle Roberts, Edicions UIB, 2006), as well as a number of book chapters, reviews and 5 coedited volumes, among them Nación, diversidad y género. Perspectivas críticas (Anthropos, 2010), De-Centring Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) and Entre la calma y la inspiración. Diccionario de autores anglófonos en Baleares (Olañeta, 2015).

    She has participated in 10 funded research projects supported by a diversity of national and regional institutions, such the Ministry of Science and Universities or the Women's National Institute. Among her most recent funded projects we can mention "Cosmopolitan Strangers: Alternative Worlds in Contemporary Literatures" (RTI2018-097186-B-I00, 2019-21). She has been visiting scholar at several foreign universities (University of the West of England, of Edinburgh, of York) and is a member of the UIB research group BRICCS. British and Comparative Cultural Studies, as well as of Intersecciones, both included in the Excellence Research Network LEAP 21, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2019-21). She is also collaborator in the UIB research group Relato de viajes y mito insular: El viaje a las Baleares. She was a member of the Board of Referees of the JCR-indexed (Q1) specialised journal Atlantis (2013-18), in which she was later Copy Editor (2019-21). Since 2012 she is also a member of the Editorial Team of the SCOPUS-indexed journal Oceánide (Copy Editor since 2019). She has participated in the organization of 7 conferences, most of them international, and has presented papers in about 30. She has written reports on manuscripts for Spanish and foreign journals and for ANEP. She has been co-director of the English Studies/Estudis Anglesos book series (Edicions UIB) since its creation in 2008. Since 2020 she is Secretary of the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands.

    Areas of Interest:

    • Contemporary British Literature by female writers, diasporic literatures in English, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, women and gender studies, urban narratives in English, urban theory.