Vanesa Lado Pazos 

Vanesa Lado Pazos estudou o Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas (2018) e o Mestrado en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Na actualidade está elaborando a súa tese doutoral baixo a dirección do profesor Constante González Groba. Provisionalmente titulada Estudo da espectralidade na ficción afroamericana contemporánea, a disertación examina o uso recorrente do espectral en relación co trauma en varias novelas escritas por autoras afroamericanas dende finais dos oitenta ata o presente. As principais liñas de investigación de Lado Pazos inclúen a literatura e a cultura afroamericana e do sur dos Estados Unidos.  

@: vanesa.lado.pazos@usc.es

Participación congreso: “‘Us here, us here, us ever here’: Invisibility and Resistance in Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Mother Swamp'” Paper presented at the International Symposium North-American Literatures in the 21st Century: Intersectional/Transatlantic Perspectives (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló 25-26/05/2023)

Participación congreso: “From Parchman to Angola: The Construction of the Spectral Metaphor in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing and Quntos KunQuest’s This Life.”Paper presented at the Symposium Race and the Body: The Legacy of Slavery (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 05-06/09/2022)

Participación congreso: “‘There’s No Justice. Only Grace’: Spectrality and the Subversion of Historical Narratives.”Paper presented at the SANAS 2022 Conference (University of Fribourg, 18-19/11/2022)

“Haunting Back: A Study of Spectrality in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.”The Southern Quarterly, vol.58, no.3, 2021. 113-120.

“Finished With All That”: The Death of the Southern Lady and the Emergence of the New Woman in Ellen Glasgow’s Fiction.” Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio FF. Philologiae, vol.38, no.2, 2020. 81-92 e o DOI: 10.17951/ff.2020.38.2.81-92

“The Specter of Racial and Sexual Liminality in Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits.” Paper presented at the Conference ‘Liminal Identities: Nature, Culture and Society’, University of Santiago de Compostela (online), 05 October 2020.

““I Belong to the Abandoned Fields”: An Ecofeminist Approach to Ellen Glasgow’s Barren Ground.” Paper presented the International Conference ‘Language and Violence: Literary Meditations in the Age of the Anthropocene’, University of Vigo, 16-17 January 2020.

““A Revolt from the Pretense of Being”: The Death of the Southern Lady and the Emergence of the New Woman in Ellen Glasgow’s Novels.” Paper Presented at the AEDEAN Conference 2019, University of Alicante, 13-15 November 2019.