University of Granada
Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a Senior Lecturer of British and Irish Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Granada and the General Editor of the major series “Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture” in Edward Everett Root Publishers. She has published extensively on contemporary and modernist Irish poetry and fiction, in relation to questions of gender, race, community, migration and interculturality. She is the author of the books Eavan Boland’s Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider’s Culture (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading (Academica Press, 2008). Her edited collections include Secrecy and Community in Twentieth-First Century Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021, co-edited with María J. López Vizcaíno); Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester University Press, 2014), the special issue of Irish Studies Review (entitled "Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis", co-edited with Jason King, 2015), and the special issue of Nordic Irish Studies (entitled “Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland”, 2016). Villar-Argáiz is currently the chairperson of AEDEI (Spanish Association of Irish Studies) and Board Member of EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).
Publications
- Villar-Argáiz, Pilar and María Jesús López Vizcaino. Eds. Secrecy and Community in Twentieth-First Century Fiction. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN.
9781501365546 - “Eavan Boland’s Poetry: The Inoperative Community” . The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary British and Irish Literature. Volume 1. Editors: Richard Bradford;Madelena Gonzalez;Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Wiley Blackwell, 2020. Pages: 127-137. ISBN-10 : 1118902300; ISBN-13 : 978-1118902301
- "Secrecy, Alterity and Defiant Femininity in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Boys of Bluehill ". Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies (General Editor: Emilie Pine);. Vol. 49 (No. 2) (Autumn/Winter 2019). (ISSN: 1938-6036) Página inicial y página final: 370-389 Fecha: 2019. Edinburgh University Press, Gran Bretaña
- "The 'unfettered freedom' of 'flitting bats': The inoperative community in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". James Joyce Quaterly. The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Vol. 52. Number 3-4. Spring-Summer 2015; pages 531-556.
- “Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’”. Community and immunity in the contemporary novel in English. A diachronic and rhetorical approach. Eds. Julián Jiménez Hefferman, Paula Martín y Gerardo Rodríguez. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 48-66. ISBN: 978-1-137-28283-5
- “Communal ‘Openness’ to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction” . Community and immunity in the contemporary novel in English. A diachronic and rhetorical approach. Eds. Julián Jiménez Hefferman, Paula Martín y Gerardo Rodríguez. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 177-194. ISBN: 978-1-137-28283-5
