Irina Cruz Pereira

Becari Predoctoral Generalitat de Catalu

Research group: Creació i Pensament de les dones

Contact Information
Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literature and English Studies
Centre ADHUC Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585

irinacruz(a)ub.edu

Currricul@'s texts

. Irina Cruz Pereira is a PhD candidate at ADHUC-Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality. Graduated in Film and Television at the Universitat Ramon Llull and with a MA in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities at the University of Barcelona, she focuses her research on gender studies in the field of popular culture and, in particular, film studies. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Dr. Rodrigo Andrés, explores the evolution of representations of heroines in contemporary action cinema and its relation to the various authorial positions that women occupy in Hollywood's film industry

Lectures

Cinefòrum 'Mad Max: Fury Road' . (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 02/05/2018. Barcelona. SPAIN

Stays abroad in Research Centers

ADHUC-Centre de Recerca Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat. Barcelona. SPAIN. 2017 (3 Years) . Estada predoctoral . Ph.D. Student
University of Warwick. Coventry. UNITED KINGDOM. 2019 (3 Months) . Estada d'investigació a la University of Warwick . Pre-Doctoral

Academic training

Cinema i Televisió . Universitat Ramon Llull . 04/06/2014 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Construcció i Representació d'Identitats Culturals . Universitat de Barcelona . (Official Master)

Participations in Conferences

Cruz Pereira, Irina (2017). Hollywood's new action heroines: third wave feminism or postfeminist utopia?. (Presentation of communication) . The Future(s) of American Studies . Viena . AUSTRIA
Cruz Pereira, Irina (2017). Nuevas heroinas de acción de Hollywood: ¿Tercera ola o utopía postfeminista?. (Presentation of communication) . V Taller de Tesis CRIC . Barcelona . SPAIN
Irina Cruz Pereira (2018). Autorías femeninas en la industria de Hollywood contemporánea. (Presentation of communication) . IV Congreso Internacional Los Textos del Cuerpo . Barcelona . SPAIN
Irina Cruz Pereira (2018). Editoras (in)visibles de Hollywood: Margaret Sixel como autora de 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. (Presentation of communication) . III Jornada de Màster ADHUC . SPAIN
Cruz-Pereira, I. (2019). 'Wonder Woman' (2017): Popular Feminism and the Occupation of 'Male' Spaces. (Presentation of communication) . Research in a Globalised World . Zaragoza . SPAIN

Projects

Creació i Pensament de les dones (Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR)) . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.2017SGR588 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Josefina Birules Bertran . (29 Researchers)
  • Teoria i crítica de la cultura
  • sexualitats
  • Bioética
  • Estudis de Dones i Gènere
Trànsfugues i pàries modernes: gènere i exclusió a la cultura popular del s. XXI () . 2018 . Ref.FEM2017-83974-P MINECO/AE . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Helena González Fernández

Journal Publications

Cruz Pereira, Irina (2016). Deconstructing the single story of Nigeria: Diasporic identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. Blue Gum, 3, pp. 50 - 55 . Blue Gum Vol. 3 (http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/Blue_Gum/BlueGum_Vol3/BlueGumVOL3.html) . ISSN: 2014-2153
Cruz Pereira, Irina (2018). "Each of us, in our own way, was broken": Género, vulnerabilidad y comunidad en 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. Anuari de Filologia. Literatures Contemporànies(8), pp. 329 - 343 . ISSN: 2604-1588

Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Cruz, Irina . (2016) . Mad Max: Fury Road como distopía crítica feminista (Master's Thesis) . Barcelona.