Paloma Fresno-Calleja is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Balearic Islands where she teaches Postcolonial Literatures. Her research focuses on New Zealand and Pacific literatures, on which she has published numerous book chapters and articles in a range of national and international journals, She has co-edited (with Janet Wilson) the volume Beyond Borders. New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace (Routledge, 2023) and (with Melissa Kennedy) a Special Issue of Interventions. An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies entitled “Island Narratives of Persistence and Resistance” (forthcoming 2023). She is Lead Researcher of LITANGLO.

Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez completed her PhD on Nigerian women’s writing at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she is currently an assistant lecturer. Her research is in the field of African literatures and gender studies, and she is specially interested in contemporary Nigerian female writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Contemporary Women’s Writing or Continuum.

Gabriel Dols is an assistant lecturer in Literary Translation and English Language at the University of the Balearic Islands. He has also been a professional translator for over 15 years and has translated into Spanish, works by Samuel Beckett, Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama, Alan Greenspan, Timothy Leary, Lorrie Moore, George Pelecanos, Terry Pratchett, Saki, William Vollmann, among many others. He holds a PhD from the University of the Balearic Islands, and degrees in Literary Translation from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Translation and Technologies from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His research fields include the translation of African anglophone postcolonial literature and the interaction between translation and censorship, specifically in the translation of pop lyrics.

Guillermo Iglesias Díaz is Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research focuses on the interaction between transmodernism and postcolonialism in film and film adaptations, with special attention to the role of cinema in European discourses on nationalism and gender.  His recent publications include the monograph Cine, espacio urbano e identidades (trans)nacionales: The Commitments and Trainspotting (ArCiBel, 2013), and book chapters included in Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures. Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2017); Screening and Depicting Cultural Diversity in the English-speaking World and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2013); and Precarious Parenthood: Doing Family In Literature and Film. (LIT Verlag. 2013).

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz is Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her primary research is in Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, with an emphasis on film genres and women’s cinema in the USA and Spain. She also has an interest in questions of embodiment, affect and the senses in screen cultures, as well as in crime fiction written by women. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Isabel Coixet. Most recently she has co-edited, with Mary Harrod, Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017, winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition) and published her monograph Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Edinburgh UP, 2018). Her edited collection Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2020) explores contemporary reformulations of the Final Girl in film, TV and literature.

Miquel Pomar-Amer is Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he has been teaching English for Specific Purposes since 2015. He completed his PhD in the University of Manchester with a dissertation that compared a selection of novels and autobiographical works written by British-Pakistani and Catalan-Moroccan authors. His research interests include the representation of identity in literature, especially in postcolonial contexts of migration and diaspora, the ethical and political relations between text and context, and the representation of the encounter between locals and tourists in works set in the Mediterranean. He has given presentations in several conferences on these topics and some of his research has been published as articles and book chapters.

Mariana Ripoll Fonollar is an assistant lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands and is currently currently completing her PhD thesis in which she is exploring the figure of the suffragette in contemporary British fiction. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing and Gender Studies.

Aida Rosende-Pérez is Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands where she teaches  US Literatures and Cultures, Gender and Feminist Studies, and Postcolonial and Globalization Studies. She holds an international PhD in English from the University of Vigo (2015) and her doctoral dissertation received the Arts and Humanities Doctoral Award from that same University, as well as the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award granted by the Spanish Association of Irish Studies (AEDEI). Her research has focused principally on the politics and poetics of transnational feminism, specializing in postcolonial and diasporic literature and cultural production and paying special attention to the narratives and (audio)visual productions of contemporary Irish women writers and artists. Her current research explores the critical theories of posthumanism and affect studies in relation to feminist cultural practices (literature, cinema, TV, visual arts) in the context of neoliberal globalization. She is co-director of the collection Studies in Gender Violence (Edicions UIB), together with Dr. Marta Fernández Morales (University of Oviedo).

Ana María Santandreu Aranda graduated in English Studies at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in 2006. Her postgraduate studies focus on the relationship between literature and science in 19th century England. She has been a part-time lecturer at UIB since 2009.

Astrid Marie Schwegler Castañer completed her PhD on Contemporary Australian Literature at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she is currently working as a Lecturer. Her research interests include the notions of ethnicity, belonging and identity in contemporary postcolonial and diasporic works, Food Studies and popular culture. Her work has appeared in international journals such as Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, or Feminist Media Studies.

Marta Villalba Lázaro is Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands where she teaches English literature and Business English. She holds a PhD in English, an joint MA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (UIB/Bangor University), and BA degrees in Law and English Philology from the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research focuses on Victorian and postcolonial literatures and their intersections with their legislative context and classical reception, encompassing feminist jurisprudence criticism, cultural studies, and postcolonialism. She has published several articles in specialised journals.

External researchers:

Ana Bringas López
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
Aurora García Fernández
Maria Grau Perejoan

Belén Martín Lucas
Silvia Martínez Falquina
Margalida Massanet Andreu
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez
Irene Pérez Fernández
Carmen Pérez Ríu

Beatriz Pérez Zapata
Catalina Ribas Segura
Cristina Sanchez Moll
Corneeltje Elisabeth Van Bleijswijk
Pilar Villar Argáiz