Fifth Early-Career Scholars' Conference

Norma Elia Cantú currently serves as the President of the American Folklore Society and Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she teaches Latinx and Chicanx Studies. A daughter of the borderlands, she focuses on the US-Mexico border for her research and scholarly work as well as her poetry, fiction and personal essays. She most recently published the co-edited anthologies meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction and Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and Communities, Cabañuelas, a novel, and Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor. Her research and creative writing have earned her an international reputation, and she is a frequent keynote and plenary invited speaker. She has read her work in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US and Mexico. The award-winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, is taught in numerous universities in the US and in Europe. She translated Gloria Anzaldóa’s Borderlands/la Frontera into Spanish.

Dr Nuria Yáñez Bouza is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, French and German Philology at the University of Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester (UK). Her research interests lie in the field of English historical sociolinguistics, with a focus on eighteenth-century grammar prescriptivism (covering the grammar-writing tradition and pronouncing dictionaries), register variation in EModE and LModE, and letter-writing practices in the Georgian period.

Rosario Arias Doblas is Professor of English Literature at the University of Málaga (Spain). She has been a member of the Executive of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). She is an active member of Academia Europaea since 2016, and she is currently the President of “Victorian and Neo-Victorian Society in Spain (VINS)”. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on neo-Victorian fiction, trauma, haunting and spectrality, the trace, revisions of the past in contemporary fiction, ageing and illness narratives. She has co-edited (with Patricia Pulham, University of Surrey) Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past (Palgrave, 2010). In addition, she has also published the volume Science, Spiritualism and Technology, which belongs to the collection Spiritualism, 1840-1930 (Routledge, 2014). Professor Arias has written on the work of contemporary writers (Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, among others). She is Principal Investigator of one funded research project: “‘Orientation’: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Contemporary Fiction and Culture” (Ref: FFI2017-86417-P): https://orionfiction.org/, of another research project on women and Spiritualism, funded by the regional funding scheme, and head of LITCAE research group (https://www.litcae.com/). She is the Director of the Doctoral Programme in “Linguistics, Literature and Translation” at the University of Málaga since 2016 (ongoing).