Teresa Martínez Quiles is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Alicante (Spain), where she completed her PhD in 2024 after having been awarded a doctoral grant (FPU) by the regional government of Valencia. She has also worked as an adjunct lecturer at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) and has delivered papers in both national and international conferences. Her main research interests are feminism, female friendship and diasporic studies in contemporary anglophone novels.
Publications
Articles
2023. «Translating Anger into Care: An Examination of Black Female Identity and Bonding in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016).» Miscelánea 67: 149-167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237246
2020. “The Lights and Shadows of Sisterhood: Revisiting Fay Weldon’s Female Friends (1974) in the Fourth Wave.” Odisea, no. 21: 57-70. DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i20.3782
Book Chapters:
2020. “Female Duality in Victorian Fiction: Challenging the Feminine Ideal of the 19th Century.” Las mujeres visibles: letras y humanidades. Ed. Isabel Balteiro. Alicante: Universidad. 105-121. ISBN 978-84-1302-086-0
https://web.ua.es/es/lexesp/publicaciones.html
Organisational Experience
-Co-covenor of ASYRAS 8th Conference (held at the University of Málaga in July 2022)
-Co-convenor of ASYRAS 7th Conference (held online in June 2021 in Málaga).
Research Stays
-4-month doctoral research stay at the University of California, Berkeley (Autumn 2022).
-3-month doctoral research stay at the University of St Andrews (Autumn 2021).