Natalia Jiménez-Pérez is a PhD candidate and research fellow in Irish literature at the University of Zaragoza. In 2021, she graduated with honours in the Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies of the same university. 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 at the Department of English and German Studies, and as part of the Research Project “Literature Of(f) Limits: Pluriversal Cosmologies and Relational Identities in Present-Day Writing in English”. Her PhD thesis 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, fantasy and Tolkien studies, medical humanities and vulnerability studies, with a special emphasis on questions of precarity and intimacy. Her chapter “The Ethics of Vulnerability and Relationality in a Collapsing World in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You” was included in the Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (2025), the first monograph devoted to the author. She is also a member of the Research Institute for Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) and the “Contemporary Narrative in English” research team.
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