Executive Board
Leticia de la Paz de Dios
President
Faculty member at the University of Almería (since 2017), with a BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Almería), a BA in English Philology (University of Granada), an MA in Hispanic Studies, and an MA in Translation (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee).
She has published and edited with academic publishers including Dykinson and Peter Lang, and her research interests primarily focus on literature authored by women from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on lesbian writers such as Adrienne Rich.
Nuria del Mar Torres López
Vicepresident
Faculty member at the University of Almería, with an MA in Women Culture and Society, and a PhD that deals with gender violence and identity in Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes’ novels. She is completing her second PhD in Language and Culture (University of Jaén) based on postcolonial literature written by women.
She has coedited several volumes about Black British, American and Spanish women writers with Peter Lang and Dykinson, and is currently working on a edition about gender violence and a coedition about motherhood, vulnerability and infertility with Palgrave, both focused on Irish contemporary literature.
Iago Rodríguez Diéguez
Secretary
PhD candidate at the University of Vigo and a pre-doctoral researcher on the Ministry of Science-funded project “Communitas/Immunitas: Relational Ontologies in Atlantic Anglophone Cultures of the 21st Century.” He is a member of BiFeGa and contributes to the Feminario research line, and is affiliated with CISPAC.
He holds a BA in Foreign Languages, an MA in Advanced English Studies (UVigo), and a Double MA in Teacher Training and English Studies (University of Málaga). His thesis examines masculinity and transatlantic mobilities in Nigerian diasporic fiction.
Claudia Martori
Treasurer
Lecturer in English literature at Universitat de Barcelona and PhD candidate in the Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity doctoral program at the same university, where she is working on a thesis that focuses on posthumanism and transhumanism in the work of Jeanette Winterson.
She has also been enrolled at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of Manchester, and the University of Northampton as part of her educational background. Her research interests are contemporary literature, the Posthuman, critical theory, and film.
Alba Zels Garrido
Social Area Coordinator
PhD candidate at the University of Vigo and pre-doctoral researcher under the Xunta de Galicia's "Galicia Investiga Igualdade" program. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages (UVigo) and an MA in Secondary Teaching (UVigo).
Her doctoral thesis explores historical fiction as a medium for recovering marginalized female perspectives and understanding how literature shapes collective memory, focusing particualrly on the Chinese Singaporean context. Alba is also part of the "Emerging Scholars" initiative of the Cátedra de Feminismos 4.0 by the Deputación de Pontevedra.
Lindsey McLean Melchor
Design Area Coordinator
Independent scholar with a BA in Classical Studies & Spanish (University of Exeter), an MA in Chinese Studies, and a PhD in Languages, Texts and Contexts, which focussed on 20th century Chinese women's non-fiction literarture (University of Granada). She has also undertaken research at Kunming Normal University and Soochow University, in China.
Her conference presentations, academic publications and editorial work reflect her interdisciplinary research interests in Chinese culture and society (specifically, issues of gender), (women's) nonfiction writing, and feminist literary theory.
Dolors Ortega Arévalo
Content Area Coordinator
Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures in English at
Universitat de Barcelona, the Secretary of the Observatory: Centre for Australian and Transnational Studies, OCEAT, at Universitat de Barcelona, the Coordinator of the Area of Philosophy of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies, AEEII, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, and Visiting Scholar at SOAS University of London.
Her research focuses on Indian Ocean literatures, postcolonial and gender studies, memory, belonging, and Blue Humanities. She has broad experience in teaching innovation, academic management, and academic supervision across higher and adult education. Actively engaged in knowledge transfer, she combines research with social outreach and inclusive pedagogical practices.
Ariadna García Carreño
Spokesperson
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Philology (University of Almería. Her research focuses on poetry and gender at the turn of the twentieth century, examining peripheral American poetic cultures and alternative literary discourses in Northern California.
She studies authors such as George Sterling, Nora May French, Ambrose Bierce, and Herman Scheffauer, with attention to representations of femininity and poetic counter-discourses.
Sofía Alférez Mendía
Spokesperson
PhD from the University of Almería, where she also earned her BA and MA in English Studies.
Her research explores vulnerability and care ethics in the fiction of Sally Rooney and, more broadly, contemporary Irish studies, with a particular interest in contemporary Irish women writers.
Alyce Louise Corbett
Spokesperson
Associate Professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she also earned her Cum Laude PhD. Her research focuses on film and literary aesthetics, postfeminist representations, and contemporary women’s writing; more specifically on mapping the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century and seeking to define and shape the contours of new modes in which women’s work can be read as a distinct aesthetic force.
Her first monograph, Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze, was released by Routledge in 2025 and her first coedited collection on motherhood and contemporary literature is being released by Palgrave Macmillan this year.
Ángeles Jordán Soriano
Spokesperson
Ángeles Jordán Soriano holds a PhD in English Studies from the University of Almería, where she is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Philology, funded by an FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. She is an expert in British literature and culture, with a particular focus on the literary and cultural history of the 1960s.
Her research focuses on the intersection of politics and artistic production during Harold Wilson’s first government (1964–1970). In 2021, she received the Patricia Shaw Research Award from the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), which enabled her to undertake a research stay at the University of Kent. She has also been a visiting researcher at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She currently combines her research with undergraduate teaching at the University of Almería.
Sanae Kichouh Aiadi
Spokesperson
Lecturer at the University of Almería, holding a BA in English Studies (University of Almería) and an MA in English Studies (University of Jaén).
Her PhD research examined reception and vulnerability studies in contemporary poetry by the female authors Louise Glück and Rita Dove. This doctoral dissertation was awarded the IV Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in Equality and Against Gender Violence at the University of Almería.