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BÁRBARA ARIZTI MARTÍN

Bárbara Arizti Martín is Senior lecturer in English Literature at the Department of English and German Philology (University of Zaragoza). She is a member of the research team “Contemporary Narrative in English,” funded by the Aragonese Government, and of the University Research Institute for Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS-University of Zaragoza). Arizti is a specialist in contemporary Australian literature, ethics and the novel, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies and Transmodernity. She is the author of several articles and book chapters on writers like Tim Winton, Inez Baranay, Charlotte Wood, Richard Flanagan, Janette Turner Hospital, Carmel Bird, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Daniel Berrigan, Ian McEwan and David Lodge. In 2007 she edited the volume On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) with her colleague Silvia Martínez-Falquina. In 2021, together with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Silvia Martínez-Falquina, she was in charge of the special issue Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era for The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Earlier in her career, Arizti published the monograph ‘Textuality as Striptease’: The Discourses of Intimacy in David Lodge’s Changing Places and Small World (Peter Lang, 2002). She combines the academia with an intense outreach activity as a member of the cultural association Celtic Airs.