Inmaculada Pérez Casal holds an BA and an MA from the University of Santiago de Compostela, being specialised in the American Romance Novel. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Margarita Estévez-Saá and Dr. Patricia Fra-López. Entitled Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Lisa Kleypas, the dissertation combines gender and genre studies with the aim of studying the romance novel in English. Pérez Casal’s main research interests are gender and genre studies, popular culture and literature of female authorship.
E-mail: inmaculada.perez@usc.es
Recent Contributions:
“Love in Times of Crisis. An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain”. Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research, 4.2 (2016): online. ISSN 2340-650X.
“The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas”. Paper presented at 40 AEDEAN Conference, University of Zaragoza, 9-11 November 2016.
“The Courtship Plot in the Sentimental Novel: Understanding the Origins of Contemporary Popular Romance”. Paper presented at 13th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), NUI Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016.
“Developments in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction: Lisa Kleypas and Women’s Bonding”. Paper presented at III Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora da USC, University of Santiago de Compostela, 9-10 June 2016.
“Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Lisa Kleypas”. Paper presented at IDAES Graduate Day 2016: International Doctoral Programme in Advanced English Studies – Linguistics, Literature and Culture, University of Santiago de Compostela, 19 May 2016.
“Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain”. Paper presented at I Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores SELGYC, Autonomous University of Madrid (Madrid), 29-30 October 2015.
