Noemí Pereira Ares

Noemí Pereira-Ares is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Her research lines include contemporary literature on migration, postcolonial, transcultural and diaspora studies, as well as sociological approaches to the dressed body in literature. Her research has appeared in international academic journals such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is the author of Fashion, Dress and Identity in the Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora: From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and she has co-edited, amongst others, the volume Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction (Brill, 2021) and the special issue Border Politics and Refugee Narratives in Contemporary Literature (Humanities, 2024).  

@: noemi.pereira@usc.es

  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2026. “‘Forging a Hospitable Contact Zone: Transculturalism in Refugee Tales.’ Cartographies of the Transcultural in the Contemporary: Insights from Cultural Studies and Literature, edited by Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo. Peter Lang (forthcoming).
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2024. “Clothescapes of Refugeehood: Emma Lee’s The Significance of a Dress (2020).” Fashion Theory – Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 23.5-6: 813-837.
  • Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura and Noemí Pereira-Ares, eds. 2024. Special Issue “Border Politics and Refugee Narratives in Contemporary Literature.” Humanities3.
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2023. “Moda, subalternidad y ecofeminismo en clave socio-literaria: Brick Lane, de Monica Ali.” Atlánticas: revista internacional de estudios feministas1: 169-191.
  • Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Noemí Pereira-Ares, eds. 2021. Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction. Brill.
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2020. “Meera Syal’s ‘The Traveller’. Its Feminist Allegory and Later Echoes.” ATLANTIS: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 42.1: 1-19.
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2019. “Sartorial Borders and Border Crossing in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Short Stories”.
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2018. Estévez-Saá, Margarita and Noemí Pereira-Ares. 2016. “Trauma and Transculturalism in Contemporary Fictional Memories of 9/11”.
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2015. “Transculturalism and Cultural Translation in Cauvery Madhavan’s
  • Pereira-Ares, Noemí. 2013. “The Politics of Hijab in Monica Ali’s