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Our Team
Leticia de la Paz de Dios (PhD)
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 Torres López (PhD)
Vice-President
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.
Claudia Martori
Secretary
PhD candidate enrolled in the Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity programme (Universitat de Barcelona). She has also been educated at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of Manchester, and the University of Northampton.
Her doctoral thesis focusses on posthumanism and transhumanism in the work of Jeanette Winterson. Her research interests are contemporary literature and philosophy, posthumanism, and film.
Ana María Crespo Gómez (PhD)
Treasurer​
Lecturer in English Studies at the University Centre for Defence (San Javier, Murcia), with a BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Granada), MA in English Studies (University of Almería).
Her PhD research examined South Asian diaspora literature and the concept of home. She has also lectured at the University of Zaragoza, and her scholarly work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and monographs.
Sofía Alférez Mendía
Spokeswoman
Final-year PhD candidate (University of Almería) whose research analyses the representation of care ethics and vulnerability in the fiction of Sally Rooney.
Among her publications is worth noting her chapter in The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (2025). Her current research interests include Irish literature, gender studies, women’s writing, and care ethics.
Lindsey McLean-Melchor (PhD)
Spokeswoman
​Independent researcher with a BA in Classical Studies & Spanish (University of Exeter), an MA in Chinese Studies, and a PhD in Languages, Texts and Contexts (University of Granada). She has also conducted research at Kunming Normal University and Soochow University, in China.
Her conference presentations and academic publications reflect her interdisciplinary research interests in Chinese society (specifically, issues of gender), women’s nonfiction writing, and feminist literary theory.
Carmen García Navarro (PhD)
Spokeswoman
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Dolors Ortega Arévalo (PhD)
Spokeswoman
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Alyce Corbett (PhD)
Spokeswoman
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