Irene Pérez Fernández (0000-0002-8910-365X)

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Dr. Pérez Fernández, Irene is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Oviedo. Her research focuses on the notions of gender, space and identity in contemporary British literature and literatures in English with a special interest in the literary works of contemporary Black British and Asian British Women Writers. She has published articles on the works of Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, Diana Evans and Monica Ali in various international journals (Atlantis, Odisea, The Grove, Interactions: Journal of British and American Studies and Journal of Postcolonial Writing) and is the author of two books Espacio, Identidad y Género: Aproximaciones Teóricas (2009) and Maggie Gee: 'The Artist/Artista.' (2011).

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Universitario of Oviedo : Oviedo, ES

2010-09-01 to present

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Irene Pérez Fernández

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Universitario of Oviedo : Oviedo, ES

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Romance for Change: Diversity, Intersectionality and Affective Reparation in Contemporary Romantic Narratives. Reference. PID2021-122249NB-I00

Cosmopolitan Scotlands

The Politics, Aesthetics and Marketing of Literary Formulae in Popular Women’s Fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance. Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Ref. FFI-2016 75130-P) (AEI/FEDER, UE)

Works (26)

Caribbean Plantation Life through Rose-Tinted Glasses

Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold

Casting Stones with Intent: Transnational Interventions towards Ethical and Reparative Memorialisation

"Politics of Protest": the Personal and the Political in Maggie Gee’s “May hobbs: A Story on the Night Cleaners’ Strike”

Genre bending and blending in Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses YA series

Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction

Romantic Escapes

"this is a business transaction, fundamentally": Surrogate motherhood in Meera Syal's the house of hidden mothers

Breaking historical silence emotional wealth in Joan anim-Addo’s “Daughter and his housekeeper” and Andrea Levy’s the long song

“From over the Seven Seas the Empire’s sons came”: Addressing historical oblivion in Andrea Levy’s “Uriah’s War”

Emotional (Un)Belonging in Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love

El color de la voz: escritoras y pensadoras de la diáspora negra y asiática británica a finales del siglo XX

From the ‘Native Outside’ to the ‘Foreign Within’: Re/negotiating Urban Space in The White Family

New Alleyways to Significance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to English Studies

Re/Articulating Identity in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet

Embodying "twoness in oneness" in Diana Evanss 26a

Maggie Gee: Artista/The Artist

(Re)Mapping London: Gender and Racial Relations in Andrea Levy's Small Island

Londres, ¿una jaula dorada? Relatos de mujeres asiáticas en la diáspora

Real and Imaginary Spaces in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

Espacio, identidad y género

Exploring hybridity and multiculturalism: intra and inter family relations in Zadie Smith's" White teeth"

Representing Third Spaces, Fluid Identities and Contested Spaces in Contemporary British Literature

Aproximaciones feministas al concepto de espacio

La codificación del espacio en clave de género

Espacio e identidad femenina en" Woman Hollering Creek" de Sandra Cisneros