Antía Román Sotelo

Antía Román Sotelo graduouse en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2018), onde obtivo tamén o Mestrado en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019). Actualmente, está traballando na súa tese doutoral baixo a supervisión da profesora Laura Lojo Rodríguez e cun contrato predoutoral concedido polo Ministerio de Universidades. A súa tese, que leva por título provisional “Reverberations of Trauma: The Great War Revisited in Contemporary Irish Literature”, examina as causas históricas, políticas e sociais que contribuíron ao esquecemento da participación irlandesa na Gran Guerra, analizando o concepto de ‘trauma’ con relación á represión do suceso.Dita tese pretende dar visibilidade aos autores/as contemporáneos que decidiron abordar o conflicto como parte dun proceso de reconciliación co pasado, e analizar as estratexias discursivas das que se serve a literatura para expresar o que adoita permanecer oculto. As principais liñas de investigación de Román Sotelo inclúen os estudos de trauma, o poscolonialismo e a literatura irlandesa.

PARTICIPACIÓN EN CONGRESOS

 

“‘To Ride on the Coattails of Anger over Brexit and the Border?’: The Northern Ireland Question Through Rosemary Jenkinson’s ‘The Night They Shot the Journalist’.” Presentada en 46th AEDEAN Conference, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 8-10 de novembro de 2023

“‘Change Isn’t Always Good’: The Resurgence of Tensions in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland Through Rosemary Jenkinsons’s ‘Portrait of a European City’.” Presentada na conferencia BrexLit: Writing the British Border in Times of Crisis, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 6-7 de xullo de 2023
“‘The Fragmented Birth of the New’: Constructing Irishness from a Liminal Space in Mary O’Donnell’s ‘The Unchosen’.” Presentada na conferencia internacional Mapping Brevity across Borders: Short Forms as Tools for Educational, Social and Cultural Mediation, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 4-5 de xullo de 2022

“‘To Think a Woman Had So Much Power and Not Know It’: Margaret’s Journey in Mary O’Donnell’s ‘Empire’.” Presentada na conferencia internacional (De)Writing the Borderland: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities, Universidades de Santiago de Compostela e Vigo, 13-14 de xaneiro de 2022

“‘Poor Useless Cannon Fodder’: Ireland’s Forgotten Great War Stories Through Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘The Discarded Soldier’ and ‘The Alien Skull’.” Presentada en 44th AEDEAN Conference, Universidad de Cantabria, 24-26 de novembro de 2021

“‘Your Cause Is a Just Cause Too’: Great War Irish Literature and Trauma in Mary O’Donnell’s ‘Fortune on a Fair Day’.” Presentada na conferencia internacional Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8-9 de setembro de 2021

“‘Perhaps They Have Forgotten’: The Rejection of Irish Soldiers and Writers of the Great War Through Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie.” Presentada en 19th International AEDEI Conference: Silences and Inconvenient Truths in Irish Culture and Society, Universidade de Vigo, 27-28 de maio de 2021

PUBLICACIONS

“Review: The Poison Glen, by Annemarie Ní Churreáin”, en ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 23, 255-257. ISSN: 1518-0581. eISSN: 2595-8127. DOI: 10.37389/abei.v23i2.197804. 2022

“Irish Identities Revisited in Mary O’Donnell’s ‘Empire'”, en Estudios Irlandeses, 17, 90-100. ISSN: 1699-311X. DOI: 10.24162/EI2022-10694. 2020.

“‘A Struggle with the Unfamiliar’: Irish Migration and Identity in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn“, en Thresholds and Ways Forward in English Studies, 158-166. ISBN 978-84-1302-079-2. DOI: 10.14198/pua.2020.twfes.15. 2020

“From Colony to Uprising: Ireland’s Liminal State Through Mary O’Donnell’s Empire.” Presentada na conferencia Liminal Identities: Nature, Culture and Society, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 5 de outubro de 2020.

“‘Playing at Being Empire’: Victims of Imperialist Ideology in Mary O’Donnell’s ‘Empire’.” Presentada na conferencia internacional Language and Violence: Literary Meditations in the Age of the Anthropocene, Universidade de Vigo, 16-17 de xaneiro de 2020.

“‘A Struggle with the Unfamiliar’: Irish Migration and Identity in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.” Presentada en 43rd AEDEAN Conference, Universitat d’Alacant, 13-15 de novembro de 2019.

“Reverberations of Trauma Through Irish Literature of the Great War.” Presentada na conferencia internacional Ireland, the Revolution and the First World War: Continuities, Ruptures and Legacies (1913-1919), Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris, 27 de xuño de 2019.