CARLA MARIA
RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ

Carla Rodríguez González is Professor in English. Her research focuses on contemporary literature, particularly Scottish, examined through an interdisciplinary lens that includes postcolonial, decolonial, cultural, spatial and gender studies. Her research has been recognized with 4 research periods (sexenios). Her publications include 4 monographs: Escritoras escocesas en la nueva literatura nacional (U. 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 (U. 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 U. Edwardsville, 2022), European Journal of English Studies (2017). The journals in which she has published (22 articles, 2 interviews, 3 reviews) include the leading ones dedicated to Scottish studies, such as Scottish Studies Review (U. of Glasgow) and Etudes écossaises (U. 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. She has translated (with introduction and critical notes) stories by Jackie Kay and Suhayl Saadi, published in two separate volumes (2008, 2023). She has undertaken research stays at leading international universities (U. of Glasgow, UMASS, U. of Edinburgh, University of York). She is a member of the Instituto Universitario en Género y Diversidad (U. Oviedo) and of the research groups Intersecciones (U. Oviedo) and BRICS (British and Comparative Cultural Studies: Identities and Representation, U. of the Balearic Islands). She has participated in 19 research projects (3 European Union, 6 Spanish National R+D Programme, 7 Principality of Asturias/ U. 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 U. 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 supervised and co-supervised 9 PhD theses on contemporary literature. She coordinated the Máster Universitario en Género y Diversidad (2019-2023) and the joint degree programme AEL (Applied European Languages (2015-2017), both at the U. of Oviedo, and was Vicedean of International Relations at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of this university in 2015.