MARIA ISABEL
CARRERA SUAREZ

European Society for the Study of English, ESSE (Turin 2010), the Spanish Association of Anglo-North American Studies, AEDEAN (La Laguna 2017) and the IDEA English Studies association (Trabzon 2021). She has also been research fellow at the universities of Calgary, Flinders, Adelaide, Tsinghua and King's College London, in addition to her presence as a researcher or guest lecturer at over 30 others. Her articles have appeared in prestigious international journals (EJES, Interventions, DQR, J Canadian Poetry, IJ of Canadian Studies, Australian Literary Studies, Scottish Literary Journal, Kunapipi, NORA, Moving Worlds) and she has contributed to influential collective volumes in her field, such as Motherlands (The Women's Press, 1991), Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity (MacMillan, 1995), Aritha van Herk: Essays on her Work (Guernica, 2001), Tropes and Territories (McGill-Queen's, 2007), Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing (Palgrave 2011), The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Vol. 12 (OUP, 2017), Debating the Afropolitan (Routledge 2019), Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction (Brill 2021). She has also coordinated collective works, including Translating Cultures (Dangaroo 1999), Post/Imperial Encounters (Rodopi-Brill 2005), Nación, diversidad y género (Anthropos 2010), Reading Transcultural Cities (UIB 2011). Her critical and literary translations include texts by Margaret Atwood, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak. Prof. Carrera Suárez has led competitive projects continuously since 1993, being PI of 7 R+D+i projects of the Spanish National R&D Plan. Currently in force are ‘World-travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance’ (SOLIDARITIES- PID2021-127052OB-I00) and the thematic network ‘Anglophone literatures of the 21st century: transnational spaces? (LEAP21+, RED2022-134586-T). She has been participated in six further projects, including 5 from European research calls: 5th and 6th Framework, 2 Marie Sklodowska Curie ITN, GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe, 675378-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 and the current EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective. HORIZON-MSCA-2021-101073012; the most recent is the CHANSE-HERA CoastArts. Coastlines as Zones of Ecocultural Crisis - Shaping Resilience through Transnational Performance-based Arts (2025-2028). She coordinates the research group Intersecciones, certified by the national QA AEI (99/100 points) and backed in selective public calls by the Asturian Government (2014, 2018, 2021 and 2024). She is co-editor of The European Journal of English Studies (EJES), journal of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and was general editor of Atlantis, journal of AEDEAN, 2011-2014 (both JCR listed), as well as serving on the editorial board of different academic journals, including Kunapipi and IJ of Canadian Studies. In 2005 she was granted a prestigious I3 award, and her research has been officially recognized by the positive assessment of six 6-year periods (‘sexenios’) by the national QA, plus a positive assessment of her transfer activities. As supervisor, she has seen 26 PhD theses to completion, many of whose authors hold international academic positions today, four as full professors. She was co-founder of the PhD and MA programmes in Gender Studies in Oviedo and is Director of the University Institute on Gender and Diversity since its creation in 2021. She has worked for different evaluation agencies (ANECA, ANEP/AEI, AQU, ACSUCYL, CONAID, AVAM...) and assessed grant calls for other funding bodies, as well as PhDs at international institutions (York, Murdoch, Padova, Cardiff, among others). From 2017 to 2021 she was Chair of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).