Associate Professor
| Name: | Cristina María Gámez Fernández |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | STUDIES IN LITERATURE, CRITICISM AND CULTURE (GRACO) HUM-676 https://graco.ugr.es/ |
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| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 20 59 | |
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| Address: | Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación |
Since she joined the Department of English in 2000, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández has taught, on one hand, literature written in English and, on the other, English for academic and professional purposes both in undergraduate and postgraduate studies. From 2006 to 2011) she was responsible for the teaching innovation project devoted to the progressive implementation of bilingual experiences in the UCO, prior to the creation of the official bilingual project. She has spent research periods at Stanford University and Wheaton College (US) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). She is one of the Founders of AEEII (Spanish Association for India Studies), also serving as Secretary-Treasurer from 2007-2009. In 2009, she won the award Leocadio Martín Mingorance, given by the University of Cordoba, for her work on the religious poetry of Denise Levertov. She guest-edited "Contemporary English Writing in India" (2012), an issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies and "Muslim Identities in Literature and Film" (2015), an issue of the Journal of Contemporary Literature. She has also been co-editor of India in the World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011), Tabish Khair: Critical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014), and Shaping Indian Diaspora: Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi (Lexington Books 2015). Together with the University of Northampton (UK) and the Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University (India), she was the organizer of the I International Conference on Precarity, Populism and Post-Truth Politics, where the international research network on Challenging Precarity: A Global Network was created (http://icp2019.aurouniversity.ac.in/About_research_network.aspx). She is currently preparing an edited volume on ecocritical poetry with Brill.
She is currently preparing two edited volumes on vulnerability with Routledge; she also has two ongoing publishing projects in co-edition with Peter Lang.
Main Publications
- 2021. Forthcoming. “Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: the Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices”. In The Films of Gurinder Chadha: Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations (ReFocus series). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- 2021. Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World, edited by Leonor M. Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. Series Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume: 16. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/58840.
- 2020. Wilson, Janet M., Om P. Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. “Planetary Precarity and the Pandemic.” Special Issue “Challenging Precarity”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, co-edited by Janet M. Wilson, Om P. Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, 56(4): 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1786904
- 2019, "Exploring the Pilgrimaged Universe: Religiosity in Denise Levertov's Poetry." this need to dance/this need to kneel: Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Faith, edited by Michael Murphy and Melissa Bradshaw. Eugene, Oregon, USA: Wipf and Stock.
- 2019, Forthcoming. "De creencias autolimitantes, paradojas y oportunidades: hacia un análisis del heroísmo en Hijas Difíciles de Manju Kapur." Mujer, memoria e identidad en la lengua inglesa, edited by Javier Martín. Granada: Comares.
- 2018. "Wanderers, Vagabonds, Seekers and Pilgrims: The Myth of the Quest in Denise Levertov." Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries: On Sappho's Website, edited by Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Rosa Burillo and María Porras Sánchez. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 35-52.
- 2016. "Delusion and Defeat in the Short-story Sequence 'Hema and Kaushik' from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth." South Asian Diaspora. 8(1): 49-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2015.1092299
- 2015. With Veena Dwivedi (eds.). Shaping Indian Diaspora. Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Lexington Books. An Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.
- 2014. With Om Prakash Dwivedi (eds.). Tabish Khair: Critical Perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- 2014. "The Unavoidable Certainty Principle in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain." Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain, edited by Amar Nath Dwivedi. London: Roman Books. 17-33.
Research projects
- Teacher Culture Pluri (TEACUP) (2019-1-ES01-KA203-064412). Erasmus+ 2019 KA203. 01/09/2019-31/08/2022
- Quality in Language Learning (QUILL) (2020-1-PT01-KA226-HE-094809). Erasmus+ 2020 KA203. 2020-2023.
- "INTERFACES: Representations of Human Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (P20_00008). 2021-2022.
- Facing Bilinguals: estudio de los resultados de los programas de educación bilingüe mediante la captación masiva y el análisis de datos extraídos de redes sociales (BESOC). EDU2017-84800-R. Tipo B (Retos). 48.400€. 01.01.2018-30.09.2021. Investigadora.
PhD Theses
- A Neo-Orientalist Study of Craig Thompson's Habibi (student Safa Alshammary). Co-supervised by Dr. Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Universidad de Granada. (in progress)
- (Cristina Gámez Fernández & Bernd Dietz) Kurt Vonnegut como postmodernista disidente: ética y estética de su novelística. Javier Martín Párraga (2009).