Research group: INTERSECCIONES Intersecciones: Literaturas, Culturas y Teorías Contemporáneas

Doctor by the Universidad de Oviedo with the thesis Iconografía católica, género e intertextualidad autobiográfica en la narrativa de Michele Roberts 2002. Supervised by Dr. Isabel Carrera Suárez.

Patricia Bastida Rodríguez is Professor of English Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she has been teaching Anglophone literature and gender studies since 2002. After obtaining her PhD in English Philology and Women's Studies from the University of Oviedo (Extraordinary Doctorate Award), she has specialised in contemporary Anglophone literature by women and recent diasporic narrative, subjects on which she has published in internationally prestigious journals such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The European Journal of English Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Atlantis. She holds three six-year research fellowships and is the author of more than 40 publications, including two monographs and the co-edition of six books, mostly related to research in gender, cultural and postcolonial studies. Her most recent research interests include questions of identity, gender and transnationalism in 21st century Anglophone literary production, especially in African and Southeast Asian diasporic narratives. She has undertaken research stays at the universities of Edinburgh, York, the West of England and Sussex and has participated in several research projects funded by competitive calls. She is currently a member of the research team of the project ‘World Travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance’ (PID2021-127052OB-I00). In addition to being a member of Intersecciones, she is a member of the British and Comparative Cultural Studies (BRICCS) research group at the UIB, and collaborates with the group Relato de viajes y mito insular: el viaje a las Baleares, also at the UIB. She has been a member of the editorial team of the journal Atlantis (copy editor, 2019-2021) and is currently a member of the editorial team of the journal Oceánide (2019-.) She is co-director of the editorial collection Estudis Anglesos (University of the Balearic Islands) since its creation in 2008.