Pilar Royo-Grasa is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza, and a member of the Research Team Contemporary Narratives in English and the Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability Research Institute of Zaragoza University. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of New South Wales (Australia), Northampton (U.K.), Regensburg (Germany) and Masaryk (Czech Republic). From October 2015 till January 2018 she acted as Secretary of EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia).

Her main research interests are contemporary Australian fiction, postcolonial literature, trauma studies, human rights and migration narratives. She has widely published on the said topics in internationally indexed journals. Her most recent publications include the monograph Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones’s Fiction (1996-2007) (Peter Lang 2022; https://doi.org/10.3726/b19258), the article “Gail Jones’s ‘The Ocean’ (2013) and A Guide to Berlin (2015): A Literary Challenge to Asylum Seekers’ Precarity” (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1771913), and the chapter “Transnational Identity as Represented in Roanna Gonsalves’s The Permanent Resident” in the Serial Publication Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism: Trends and Issues in the 21^st Century, edited by Ajaaya K. Sahoo and P. Venkata Rao (ISBN-13: 978-8194556305). She is also the Guest Editor of the special issue of The European Legacy entitled “Globalised Capitalism and Its Destitute Masses” (vol. 26, nos. 7-8, 2021), and has co-guest-edited with Dolores Herrero the special issue of Humanities “Dystopian Scenarios in Contemporary Australian Narrative” (vol. 9, no. 3, 2020-21).