Lourdes López-Ropero

Lourdes López-Ropero is Professor in the English Department at the University of Alicante, where she teaches Contemporary and World Literature in English. Before joining this university in 2001, she obtained her Masters Degree in English from the University of Kansas, and a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela, having conducted part of her doctoral research at the Centre for Caribbean Studies of the University of Warwick. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, University of West Chester, and San Diego State University; and more recently,  Visiting Fellow at the Women, Peace and Security Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She has participated as a researcher in the Socrates Thematic Network Project "ATHENA2: Advanced Network in Activities in Women's Studies in Europe" (2003-2006, 104547-CP-1-2002-NL-ERASMUS-TND, Local PI Silvia Caporale Bizzini), and in "Women and Public Space in Women's Writing, 1800-1980" (2003-2004, University of Alicante, PI Teresa Gómez Reus).

Her primary research focus has been in the fields of Postcolonial Studies,  Memory Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies. She is the author of The Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing from the Diaspora, and has recently co-edited the volume Spaces in Transit: Literary and Cultural Responses to Mnemonic Landscapes (with Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż).  Her articles have appeared in  Commonwealth, World Literature Written in English, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, English Studies, Concentric, Children's Literature in Education, or Social Identities, among other journals. Her most recent article publications include "Reconciliation is not about being cosy’: Narratives of Unchilding in Two Soweto Children’s Books", Complutense Journal of English Studies (2026); “A Curator in the House of Memory: Restauration, Implication and the Post-Conflict novel in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man", English Studies (2023); “Perimeters of Grief: Elegy in and out of Bounds in Fred D'Aguiar's Memorial Poetry”, Miscelánea (2021); or “Remembering Jonestown through the Camp and the Postcolony: A Multidirectional Reading of Fred D’Aguiar’s Children of Paradise", Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2020).   She has recently supervised the thesis "Writing the Friend, Writing Difference: A Study of Contemporary Female Friendship in Fiction by Diaspora Women Authors" by Teresa Martínez-Quiles (international doctor).

Lourdes is editor of  the forthcoming volume Postconflict Interventions in Women's Writing: Crafting Reconciliatory Spaces, which will be part of the series Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing.