Rebeca Aniorte-Perales

Rebeca Aniorte-Perales is a graduate student and early career researcher at the University of Alicante, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in English Studies supported by a predoctoral contract obtained through a public competitive call and sponsored by the Ministerio de Universidades (Ref. FPU23/03900), aimed at research training and the acquisition of university teaching skills. Her research, supervised by Prof. Lourdes López-Ropero,  focuses on contemporary, female-authored young-adult literature on the topics of (post)conflict and reconciliation in Anglophone settler-colonial contexts. She graduated from the same university in 2022, earning a degree in English Studies (BA) after a one-year Erasmus+ stay at Bangor University (Wales). She completed with honours her final degree project on the theme of memory and its politics in contemporary dystopias, received a Bachelor’s Degree Extraordinary Award (2021-22) and has recently been awarded an Academic Excellence Prize (2021-22) by the Generalitat Valenciana. During the period 2022-23 she was part of the British Council Language Assistants Programme and held a short-term language assistant post in Aberdeen, Scotland. She completed a MA on Advanced English Studies from the UA and wrote her thesis on the intersection between gender and reconciliation in contemporary Indigenous (Canada) female writing for young adults. She earned a distinction in her MA thesis and has been the recipient of the Master's Degree Extraordinary Award (2023-24) and a Grant for Collaboration in University Departments, awarded by the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (2023-24) to assist in the edition of a volume on H. G. Wells. Her research interests include speculative fiction, postcolonial/decolonial studies, memory studies, peace and conflict studies, women’s writing, Indigenous literatures and children’s and young-adult literature.