Carolina Núñez-Puente

Carolina Núñez-Puente is Associate Professor in English at the University of A Coruña. She has a Master’s degree in English from the University of Santiago de Compostela and another one in Women’s and Gender Studies fron the University of Rutgers. She has been the recipient of several scholarships and participated in various research projects. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Senate House Library (London), Indiana University (Bloomington), Freie Universität (Berlin), Bakhtin Centre (Sheffield), Rutgers Univerity. (New Brunswick), University of Texas (Austin), Centre for the Humanities (Utrecht), CNRS (Paris), and CRINI (Nantes).

Her research examines the works of Anglophone women authors, mainly from the perspectives of the ethics of care, (eco)feminism, gender theories, memory studies, and posthumanism. She is the author of Feminism and Dialogics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Meridel Le Sueur, Mikhail Bakhtin (2006) and the co-editor of Queering Women’s and Gender Studies (2019). She has also published several book chapters and articles in journals such as Atlantis, Aztlán, Babel, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and Lectora, among others.  Some of her latest articles include “From Pensive Vegetables to Feminine Men: The Dialogical Posthuman in Silko, Moure, and Jen”, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (2022); “Women’s Poetry that Heals across Borders: A Trans-American Reading of the Body, Sexuality, and Love”, Feminismo/s (2021). She also writes about film,  as in “Mulleres, guerras e memorias subalternas de Filipinas a Galicia: Os (des)afectos en Merlinda Bobis e Simón Casal”, Madrygal. Revista de Estudios Gallegos (2020); or “A Queer Eye for Gilman’s Text: The Yellow Wallpaper, a Film by PBS”, Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American (2019).