Associate professor
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Teaching Innovation Groups: Lletra de dona
Helena GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ is the director of ADHUC-Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona, professor of Galician and Portuguese Studies and correspondente academic of the Galician Academy. Her research revolves around feminist literary criticism, popular culture, affect theory, Galician and Brazilian literatures. She has published articles, chapters and books on Galician culture (Rosalía de Castro, Manuel Antonio, Luis Seoane, Xohana Torres, Luz Pozo, María Mariño, Ana Romaní, Chus Pato, Margarita Ledo, Teresa Moure, María Reimóndez, Emma Ríos), Brazilian and Portuguese women authors (Carol Bensimon, Hilda Hilst, Raquel Freire), and the women writers-witnesses of Francoist and Nazi repression (Mercedes Núñez, among others). Since 2014, she is the coordinator, together with Mariám Mariño, of A Saia: feminist and LGTBIQ+ journals (co-edited by ADHUC / Galician Culture Council). She has been director of Lectora and Abriu, and of the Centre Dona i Literatura (2014-2016).
Research areas: gender studies; popular culture; affect theory; feminist literary criticism; Galician literature; Brazilian literature
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