Natalia Jiménez-Pérez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). In 2021 she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, later to be completed by a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2022 and a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in 2023. In 2024, she was granted a four-year national competitive Research Fellowship financed by the Autonomous Regional Government of Aragon (DGA) to carry out her doctoral research under the supervision of Dr Maite Escudero Alías.

Her present research focuses on Sally Rooney’s fiction as a response to a context of global and national crisis (Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland) and its consequences in the identity formation and development of its youth, analysing the ways in which her fiction interacts, both thematically and formally, with the Irish Literary tradition, as well as the author’s proposed relational and affective approach as an antidote to universal precarity. Her main research interests include Irish literature, vulnerability studies, feminism, fantasy and Tolkien studies.

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0657-6242

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