Aurora Piñeiro

Biography

Dr Aurora Piñeiro is full professor in the English Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her main academic fields are contemporary Irish fiction, postmodern novels in English (Ireland and UK) and Gothic literature (XVIII to XXI centuries). She is a member of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures), AEDEI (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and IGA (International Gothic Association). She is author of El gótico y su legado en el terror/ Gothic Literature and Its Legacy in Terror (UNAM, 2017) and editor of Rewriting Traditions. Contemporary Irish Fiction (UNAM, 2021); as well as articles such as “Postmodern Pastiche: The Case of Mrs Osmond by John Banville” in ABEI Journal (2020), “A Trail of Bread Crumbs to Follow, or Gothic Rewritings of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Lina Meruane, Jorge Volpi and Mariana Enríquez” in Gothic Studies (2020), “Scalding Drops on a Naked Eye: The Motif of the Double in Seeing Red by Lina Meruane” in Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic (Routledge, 2019), “Banville y Black, multiplicidades autorales” (UNAM, 2019). At present, she is head of project “Contemporary Anglo-Irish Literature (XX and XXI Centuries)” at UNAM, and head of the “Eavan Boland-Anne Enright Irish Studies Chair”, also at UNAM.