Associate Professor
| Name: | Cristina María Gámez Fernández |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | Studies in Literature, Criticism and Culture (HUM-676) | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 20 59 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Psicología, planta alta, módulo E |
Since joining the Department of English and German Philologies in 2000, Cristina María Gámez Fernández has taught courses on English culture, history, and literature, as well as English for academic and professional purposes, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. From 2006 to 2011, she led a teaching innovation project focused on the gradual implementation of bilingual experiences at UCO, prior to the establishment of the official bilingual program. She has conducted research at Stanford University, Wheaton College (USA), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). She is a founding member of the Spanish Association for India Studies (AEEII), where she also served as Secretary-Treasurer from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, she received the Leocadio Martín Mingorance Award for her work on the religious poetry of Denise Levertov. Along with the University of Northampton (UK) and Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University (India), she organized the International Conference on Precarity, Populism, and Post-Truth Politics (2018), which led to the creation of the international network Challenging Precarity: A Global Network, where she currently serves as Membership Secretary. She has been a guest editor for several special journal issues, including “Contemporary English Writing in India” (2012) in the Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, “Muslim Identities in Literature and Film” (2015) in the Journal of Contemporary Literature (Allahabad, India), and “Challenging Precarity” (2020) in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, alongside Janet Wilson and Om Prakash Dwivedi. She is a member of the editorial board of Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, the journal associated with the Spanish Association of American Studies (SAAS). She has extensively published and co-edited works with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lexington Books, Brill, Peter Lang, and Routledge. Her research focuses on English literature analyzed through critical and postcolonial theory, with a special emphasis on precarity.
Main Publications
- 2025. “Le Transperceneige (1982) and the Snowpiercers (2013; 2020) as post-apocalyptic cli-fis: (Im)possible Technologized Habitats for the Vulnerable Posthuman Other.” In Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis. Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability, edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and Om Prakash Dwivedi. London and New York: Routledge.
- 2024. The Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art, edited by Anne Day Dewey, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Jose Manuel Rodríguez Herrera. Series Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas. Berlin: Peter Lang.
- 2023. Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film, edited by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Miriam Fernández-Santiago. London and New York: Routledge.
- 2023. Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, edited by Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. London and New York: Routledge.
- 2023. “Le Transperceneige (1984) and Snowpiercer (2013): Between linguistic Translation, Genre Adaptation, and the Zeitgeist of the Times.” In Las muchas caras de la Literatura: Conexiones entre la literatura y otras artes y ciencias, edited by Javier Martín Párraga, pp. 357-365. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades.
- 2022. “Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: The Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices”. In Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha, edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat, pp. 23-44. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
- 2021. Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World, edited by Leonor M. Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. Series Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume: 16. Leiden: Brill.
- 2020. Wilson, Janet M., Om P. Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. “Planetary Precarity and the Pandemic.” Special Issue “Challenging Precarity”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, co-edited by Janet M. Wilson, Om P. Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, 56(4): 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1786904
- 2019. “Exploring the Pilgrimaged Universe: Religiosity in Denise Levertov's Poetry.” In “this need to dance/this need to kneel:” Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Faith, edited by Michael Murphy and Melissa Bradshaw, pp. 50-65. Eugene, Oregon, USA: Wipf and Stock.
- 2019. “De creencias autolimitantes, paradojas y oportunidades: hacia un análisis del heroísmo en Hijas Difíciles de Manju Kapur.” Mujer, memoria e identidad en la lengua inglesa, edited by Javier Martín Párraga, pp. 131-146. Series Interlingua, volume 234. Granada: Comares.
Research projects
- Resisting the Capitalocene: Narratives of Hope in the 21st century (Ref. PID2023-147494NB-I00). 01/09/2024-31/08/2028. MICIU. Main researcher.
- DISpositifs Coopératifs Erasmus + (DisCO+) (Ref. KA220-SCH-AE0DF0DE) Erasmus + 2022 KA220. 2023-2026. Researcher.
- Representations of Vulnerability as an Element of Social Exclusion or Cohesion: Precarity and Disability in Fiction Narratives (20th and 21st centuries) (Ref. A‐HUM‐22‐UGR20), Proyecto I+D+i en el marco del programa operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020. Junta de Andalucía. 01/07/2021-30/06/2023. Main researcher.
- Interfaces: Representations of Human Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Ref. P20_00008), Programa I+D+i PAIDI 2020, Junta de Andalucía. 04/10/2021-30/06/2023. Researcher.
- Quality in Language Learning (QUILL) (Ref. 2020-1-PT01-KA226-HE-094809). Erasmus+ 2020 KA203. 2020-2023. Researcher.
- Teacher Culture Pluri (TEACUP) (Ref. 2019-1-ES01-KA203-064412). Erasmus+ 2019 KA203. 01/09/2019-31/08/2022. Researcher.
- Facing Bilinguals: estudio de los resultados de los programas de educación bilingüe mediante la captación masiva y el análisis de datos extraídos de redes sociales (BESOC) (Ref. EDU2017-84800-R). MINECO Project. 01/01/2018-30/09/2021. Researcher.
PhD Theses
- “From Amherst to Buenos Aires: Traces of Emily Dickinson in María Negroni’s Thought on Poetry and Translation” (student Irene Aranda González). Co-supervised by Dr. Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba. (in progress)
- “Un análisis del impacto del Diseño Universal para el Aprendizaje en contextos AICLE de Educación Primaria en Andalucía” (student Jorge Merino Carmena). Co-supervised by Dr. Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba. (in progress)
- “Discourses that Matter: Reading Joan Didion and Agnès Varda Diffractively through Gabi Abrão and Alejandra Smits” (student Belén Cornejo Daza). Co-supervised by Dr. Adelina Sánchez Espinosa, Universidad de Granada. (in progress)
- (Cristina Gámez Fernández & Bernd Dietz) Kurt Vonnegut como postmodernista disidente: ética y estética de su novelística. Javier Martín Párraga (2009).