Biography in English

Kathleen McNerney is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Literature and Culture, as well as Women's Studies, and Humanities from West Virginia University, where she received titles of Benedum Distinguished Scholar and Singer Professor of the Humanities. She has been awarded several prizes in Catalonia as well, including the Premi Batista i Roca for her contribution to the international projection of Catalan literature. She is a broad-based scholar whose publications include works on Latin American, French and Castilian literatures, but the majority deal with Catalan women writers.

H She co-edited Double Minorities of Spain (MLA 1994) and Visions and Revisions: Women's Narrative inTwentieth-Century Spain (Rodopi 2008), and compiled Mercè Rodoreda. A selected and annotated bibliography (2002-2011) (Institut d'Estudis Catalans 2015). Her latest publication is Silent Souls and Other Stories by Caterina Albert (2018), and The Passion according to Renée Vivien by Maria Mercè Marçal translated with Helena Buffery (Francis Boutle publishers 2020).

She has translated several other novels, short stories, poems, and essays, and plans to continue writing in her new/old home in Albuquerque.