Teresa Martínez-Quiles

Teresa Martínez-Quiles is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Alicante, where she also obtained her BA in English Studies in 2017, graduating with honours. She also holds a PhD from this university since 2024, thanks to a predoctoral contract (FPU). Before joining the University of Alicante, she worked as a lecturer at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM). Additionally, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of St Andrews  and at the University of California, Berkeley. 

She works primarily in the field of postcolonial feminist studies, focusing specifically on the study of female interpersonal relations and diasporic subjectivities in contemporary Anglophone literature written by women. Her published articles include  “The Lights and Shadows of Sisterhood: Revisiting Fay Weldon’s Female Friends (1974) in the Fourth Wave” (2020) and “Translating Anger into Care: An Examination of Black Female Identity and Bonding in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016)” (2023). The latter article, which is closely connected to her PhD dissertation, offers a postcolonial reading of women’s subjectivities and female friendships. It specifically examines how these aspects of women’s lives are shaped by their respective social differences and their individual diasporic experiences. Furthermore, more recently she has delved into memory studies from a feminist perspective. In an upcoming book chapter that focuses on some of Britain’s statues of historical women, she examines the potentialities of urban space and poetry as sites of memorialisation. She also looks at the role of the female poet as a significant witness and agent in the rewriting of history.