University of Córdoba

Mª Luisa Pascual Garrido teaches and does research at Department of English and German Studies (Filologías inglesa y alemana) at the University of Cordoba (UCO) where she has been working for more than twenty years and taught different courses mainly on literature and literary translation at BA and MA levels. Her research interests cover several related fields, ranging from literary translation and reception, to which she devoted the earlier years of her career, to literature in English. In this second area, she is particularly interested in women’s writing as well as in modern and contemporary literature. In the last few years, she has studied and applied recent community theories to the analysis of several modern and contemporary authors, and as part apart as Shakespeare and Plath. In the previous research project (FFI2016-75589-P), she has also been examining the relationship between community and secrecy with special attention to the narrative of Asian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. At present and within the framework of our current research project, she is focusing on contemporary narrative again, and taking Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro as cases in point, she intends to analyze the close relationship between democracy, forms of dissidence and secrecy in literary texts.

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Publications

• “Cryptaesthetic resistance and community in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland”, López Sánchez Vizcaíno, M.J and P. Villar-Argáiz (eds.) Secrecy and Community in 21st- Century Fiction, London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
• “The Inoperative community in The Bell Jar: The sharing of interrupted Myth”, Atlantis, 39, 1 (June 2017): 71-89. ISSN: 0210-6124.
• “The Island Space in Film Adaptations of The Tempest: on the Invisibility of Borders”, Walton, D. y J. A. Suárez (eds.) Contemporary Writings and the Politics of Space. Borders, Networks, Escape Lines. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017, 69-94.
• “Re-Humanising Coriolanus: Community and the ethical self”, SEDERI 26 (2016): 85- 107. ISSN: 1135-7789.
• “Female Pilgrimages in Medieval England: Space, Travelling and Power in The Book of Margery Kempe”, Martín Párraga, J. y J.D. Torralbo Caballero (eds.) New Medievalisms, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 109-120.