SILVIA MARTÍNEZ-FALQUINA
Silvia Martínez-Falquina has held teaching positions at the University of Oviedo, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College, Glasgow University, and the University of Zaragoza, where she currently teaches US literature. She has supervised and defended one PhD dissertation and four more are currently in progress. She has been part of the Contemporary Narrative in English group since 2003, she is a member of the University Research Institute for Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) and she is also a collaborating member of Literatures Anglòfones Modernes i Contemporànies (UIB), LENA: Literaturas Étnicas Norteamericanas en un Contexto Global (U. de València), and CCyT: Cultura, Crítica y Textos (U. Internacional de Valencia). From 2018 to 2021 she was chief editor of Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (literature, film and cultural studies). She is currently a board member of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos), a board member of EAAS (European Association for American Studies) and the editor of the fall issue of Nexus.
A specialist in Native American women’s fiction, she has published Indias y fronteras: El discurso en torno a la mujer étnica (KRK, 2004), and coedited On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English (with Bárbara Arizti, Cambridge Scholars, 2007), Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique (with Gordon Henry and Nieves Pascual, Michigan State University Press, 2009), and Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era (with Silvia Pellicer and Bárbara Arizti, The European Legacy, 2021). Her most recent articles and book chapters have appeared in Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies, Michigan State University Press, Roczniki Humanistyczne, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat, Atlantis, Iperstoria, Humanities, and Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently working on Native American literary resurgence, MMIW literature, and transmodern/Indigenous feminism.