Rebeca Aniorte-Perales

Rebeca Aniorte-Perales is a graduate student at the University of Alicante, where she is currently pursuing a MA in Advanced English Studies. She graduated from the same university in 2022, having completed her degree in English Studies (BA) after a one-year Erasmus+ stay at Bangor University (Wales). Rebeca completed with honours her final degree project on the theme of memory and its politics in contemporary dystopias, “Memory Erasure and Dystopic Fiction: George Orwell’s, 1984 and Lois Lowry’s The Giver”, and has received a Bachelor’s Degree Extraordinary Award (2021-22). She has taught English and Spanish abroad, in Ireland and Scotland respectively, at secondary-school level on short-post assistant roles during the period 2022-23, and in Scotland as part of the British Council Language Assistants Programme. She is currently working on her MA thesis, investigating the intersection between gender and reconciliation in contemporary, female-authored, young-adult literature. She is also the recipient of a Grant for Collaboration in University Departments, awarded by the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (2023-24). Her research interests include speculative fiction, memory studies, women’s writing and children’s and young-adult literature.