Organizers · MAES Lecture Series

The organizing team of the MAES Lecture Series.

Miriam Borham-Puyal is the author of the monograph Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women: Echoes of the Past (Routledge 2020), and the editor of a volume on (neo)Victorian narratives (PUV 2024). She is founder and director of the research group iLAC (Intersections: Literature, Art and Culture on the Limen).

Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Her publications include Hospitality in American Literature and Culture: Spaces, Bodies, Borders (Routledge 2017); Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture: Social Movements, Occupation, and Empowerment (Routledge 2014), Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film (Routledge 2011), all of them coauthored with J. Benito. She has co-edited collections of essays, such as Cine y Hospitalidad: Narrativas visuales del otro (Salamanca 2021). With J. Benito she is general editor of the Brill Series “Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature.”

Viorica Patea is author of studies on Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Cátedra, 2022). She has edited collections of essays, such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (Ediciones U. Salamanca, 2001), Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective. With Paul Scott Derrick she has co-edited, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (Rodopi, 2007); with John Gery “Song Up Out of Spain”: Poems in Tribute to Ezra Pound, and a book of essays, Ezra Pound & the Spanish World, (Clemson UP 2023); with Dídac Llorens-Cubedo T.S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s-1950s) (Routledge 2026).

Paula Barba Guerrero is Associate Professor of American literature at the English Department of the University of Salamanca, where she teaches nineteenth-century US literature and American autobiography. Her research interests comprise Black American literature, space, and memory, with an interest in representations of nostalgia, cultural affects, and national spatial imaginaries.

Ariadna Belmonte Gil is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Salamanca. Her field of interest is American poetry. Her doctoral dissertation explores the metaphysical undercurrents in Emily Dickinson's poetry, particularly its neo Platonic and mystical dimensions

Marta Bernabéu holds a PhD in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact from the University of Salamanca (Spain), where she is currently a Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures in English at the Department of English Studies. Her research interests range from affect, gender and adaptation studies to (neo–)Victorian and contemporary British literature.

Jorge Diego Sánchez es Senior Lecturer at the Dpt of English Studies at University of Salamanca (SPAIN). His research and teaching interests are Postcolonial Cultures in English Language, with a focus on India and its diasporas.

Luisa María González Rodríguez, Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca, specializes in English language teaching, discourse analysis, and second language methodology. Her research explores alternative assessment, CLIL, and the use of literature to enhance intercultural competence, alongside work on postmodern and twentieth-century American literature.

Andrea Gutiérrez Ricondo is a predoctoral researcher at the University of Salamanca, funded by “Fundación Banco Santander”. Her research examines Black and mixed-race women’s representation in nineteenth-century English literature and its Neo-Victorian adaptations like Bridgerton and Sanditon.

Alejandro Sánchez Cabrera is a predoctoral researcher in English Studies at the University of Salamanca. He is a member of the iLAC research group and the UNED project PoeMAS. His work explores intertextual and intermedial dialogues between literature and pop music, with a focus on British and American traditions, literary theory, cultural studies, and feminist perspectives.

Ana Tejero Marín is a PhD student at the University of Salamanca. Her research, fully funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, focuses on the representations of the Anthropocene in contemporary science fiction and fantasy literature. She is a member of the research project RELY (Re-orienting Assemblage Theory in Anglophone Literature and Culture) and the research group iLAC (Intersecciones: Literatura, arte y cultura en el limen).

Andrea Isabel Ingelmo is a Ph.D. student at the University of Salamanca Her research focuses on North American poetry, more specifically on the connections between T. S. Eliot’s work and Christian mysticism, Buddhism and Hinduism.