Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Huelva (Spain), where she directs the M.A. in Gender Studies, Identities and Citizenship. Her primary research interests are the intersection of gender, nation, family and social history in contemporary Ireland, more specifically the cultural representations of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. Her research has appeared in journals such as Nordic Irish Studies, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, The European Journal of English Studies and Estudios Irlandeses, as well as in edited collections published by Peter Lang, Palgrave Macmillan, Central European Press, Dykinson, and Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). Currently, she participates in the project “Trans-formations: queer practices of use and embodiment in post 9/11 narratives in English”, where she examines how the notions of corporeality, institutionalisation, mobility and transnationalism figure in John Banville’s crime novels. She is the head of the Research Cluster “WAÉIRE” (Irish Studies in the West of Andalusia) and serves on the International Board of EFACIS (the European Federation of Centres and Associations of Irish Studies).
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