Group members

  • ANDREA FERNANDEZ GARCIA

    Category:
    PROFESORAYUDANTE DOCTOR - LOU
    Departament:
    FILOLOGIA INGLESA, FRANCESA Y ALEMANA
    Area:
    FILOLOGIA INGLESA
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    Brief CV:

    Andrea Fernández-García is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, French and German Philology at the University of Oviedo (area of English Studies), where she has taught languages and literatures at undergraduate and graduate level since 2016. She holds an English Studies Degree from the University of Oviedo (2010) and two master's degrees: the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA), undertaken at the University of Oviedo and the University of Hull (2012), and the Master's Degree in Secondary School Teaching, completed at the University of Oviedo (2013). In 2014 she was awarded a scholarship from the University of Oviedo to fund her PhD. In 2017 she completed her PhD thesis, which obtained International Mention and Cum Laude. In 2020 she was awarded with the Best Doctoral Thesis Award.

    She studies the relationship between gender, space and decoloniality in contemporary US Latina literature. Her research is closely connected with the consolidated research group "Intersecciones: Literaturas, Culturas y Teorías Contemporáneas" (Ref. Anep: GR-2014-0009). She also took part in the national research projects "STRANGERS. Strangers and Cosmopolitans: Alternative Worlds in Contemporary Literatures" (MICIN, RTI2018-096688-B-100), "Literaturas anglófonas del siglo XXI: Espacios narrativos y performativos" (MICIU, RED2018-102678-T) and "Multiplicity. Encuentros incorporados y conocimientos alternativos" (MINECO, FFI2013-45642, 2014-2017).

    She is the author of the monograph Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which obtained the "Enrique García Díez" Award for best book on English Literature (awarded by the Spanish Association for English and American Studies, XXVIII edition). On the other hand, she coedits the volume Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls, which has been accepted for publication in Routledge. She has also published various articles, book chapters and reviews in authoritative national and international journals and academic publishers, such as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos. She has also delivered papers at numerous international conferences.

    Her research is also characterized by a high degree of internationalization. In this sense, she has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Hull. The research stays at the University of California (SB and LA) were financed by a Fulbright scholarship and an Excellence mobility grant from the University of Oviedo.