CARLA MARIA
RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ

Carla Rodríguez González is Professor of English (U. Oviedo). Her research focuses on contemporary literature, particularly Scottish, examined through an interdisciplinary lens that includes postcolonial, decolonial, cultural, spatial and gender studies. She explores how literary works represent identities within the context of Scotland’s recent social and political landscape, including the independence referendum, the establishment of the devolved parliament and the impact of Brexit. Her research has been recognized with 4 research periods (sexenios). Her publications include 4 monographs: Escritoras escocesas en la nueva literatura nacional (University of the Balearic Islands, 2013), María Estuardo (Ediciones Clásicas/ Ediciones del Orto, 2006), Jackie Kay: biografías de una Escocia transcultural (KRK, 2004) and Las genealogías escocesas de Liz Lochhead y Jackie Kay (University of Oviedo, 2004). She has coedited 6 books: Historia y representación en la cultura global (KRK, 2008), Culture and Power: The Plots of History in Performance (Cambridge Scholars, 2008), Nación, diversidad y género. Perspectivas críticas (Anthropos, 2010), Debating the Afropolitan (Routledge, 2019), Performing Cultures of Equality (Routledge, 2022) and the forthcoming Volume II of the Handbook of Translational Literature (Amsterdam UP). She has edited and coedited 3 special issues of top-tier academic journals: Complutense Journal of English Studies (2021), Papers on Language and Literature (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2022), European Journal of English Studies (2017). The journals in which she has published (22 articles, 2 interviews, 3 reviews) include the most important ones dedicated to Scottish studies, such as Scottish Studies Review (University of Glasgow) and Etudes écossaises (University of Grenoble, France). In addition, among other internationally recognized prestigious journals, she has published in European Journal of English Studies, English Studies (Francis & Taylor), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and book chapters (21) with publishers such as Blackwell, Brill, Peter Lang, Rodopi, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, as well as in the most highly ranked Spanish journals in English Studies: Atlantis, Miscelánea, RCEI, among others. She has translated (with introduction and critical notes) stories by Jackie Kay and Suhayl Saadi, published in two separate volumes (KRK 2008, 2023). She has undertaken research stays at leading international universities (University of Glasgow, UMASS, University of Edinburgh, University of York). She is a member of the Instituto Universitario en Género y Diversidad (IUGENDIV, University of Oviedo) and of the research groups Intersecciones (University of Oviedo) and BRICS (British and Comparative Cultural Studies: Identities and Representation, University of the Balearic Islands). She has participated in 19 research projects (3 European Union, 6 Spanish National R+D Programme, 7 Principality of Asturias/University of Oviedo R+D Programme). She has been the Principal Investigator of 4 research projects (2 Spanish National R+D Programme, 1 Principality of Asturias and 1 University of Oviedo R+D Programme). Rodríguez González was Copy Editor of Atlantis, Journal of the Spanish Association for English Studies (2012-2014) and has been an external reviewer for the academic journals Marvels & Tales (Wayne State University Press), European Journal of English Studies, Complutense Journal of English Studies, RAUDEM (Journal of the Spanish Association for Women’s and Gender Studies), Oceánide, Journal of the Spanish Association for the Study of Popular Culture, as well as for Routledge. Since 2015 she has been an evaluator of research projects for ANEP/AEI, the Spanish National Research Agency. She has