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AITANA MONZÓN-BLASCO

Aitana Monzón-Blasco is a poet and PhD candidate at the University of Zaragoza. In 2024 she was granted a four-year competitive Research Fellowship (FPU) by the Spanish Ministry of Education to develop her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr Silvia Martínez-Falquina. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies from the University of Zaragoza, for which she was granted an Extraordinary Degree Award, as well as a Master’s Degree in Hispanic Literatures: Art, History and Society from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her doctoral research focuses on the lyrical oeuvre of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Louise Erdrich within Native American Literature. Her research interest include 20th and 21st century poetry, text genetics, confluences between arts and poetry, Modernist studies, and phytocriticism. She has published her work in media such as Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, Acta Poética, Cartaphilus and AEDEAN-Nexus. She has also published the following poetry books: Dormir à la belle étoile (Ed. Amarante, 2019), La civilización no era esto (2021, Winner of the International Award IV Premio ESPASAesPOESÍA) and Salve (Espasa, 2025). During the academic year 2023-2024 she worked as a Lecturer of English Medieval and Contemporary Literature in the University of Zaragoza. Moreover, she was awarded a scholarship by the International T. S. Eliot Society, as well as the XXVII Andreu Febrer Translation Prize for her translations of Mina Loy’s poems into Spanish.