Carmen Gloria Cernadas Lema

Carmen Gloria Cernadas Lema holds a BA in English Language and Literature with a minor in French Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2022), where she also obtained an MA in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (2023). In the academic year 2020/2021 she participated in the Erasmus exchange programme during the second semester at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. During the academic year 2022/2023 she was awarded a Scholarship of Collaboration in University Departments of the Ministry of Education in the Department of English and German Philology of the USC. Carmen is currently working on her PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero and Dr. Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez. Her thesis, which is provisionally entitled “Enunciation, Identity and Gender in the Narrative of A. L. Kennedy and Roddy Doyle”, aims to assess the achievements and limitations in the articulation of a feminist position of enunciation in Doyle’s case and humanist (encompassing feminist) in Kennedy’s as an alternative to heteronormativity and the dominant sexual ideology.

Cernadas-Lema’s main lines of research include gender studies, trauma studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and postcolonialism.

ORCID ID: 0009-0004-3355-3696
@: carmengloria.cernadas@rai.usc.es

RECENT PUBLICATIONS                                                                                            

“Retelling Greek Tragedies: A Contemporary Trend in UK Drama”. JACLR: Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 11.2.3 (2023): <https://www.ucm.es/siim/journal-of-artistic-creation-and-literary-research> ©Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Beyond the Façade: Trauma and Violence in Roddy Doyle’s Smile”. Delivered at Afterwords: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities. Trinity College Dublin. February 9, 2024.

“My Memory Was Some Sort of Brecht Play’: Unmasking Memory and Trauma in Roddy Doyle’s Smile (2017)”. Delivered at Memory and Trauma International Conference. Birkbeck College, University of London. December 2, 2023.

“The Legacy of Slavery in Ernest J. Gaines’ ‘The Sky Is Gray’”. Delivered at 34th Annual Mardi Gras Conference. Louisiana State University, USA. February 1-3, 2024.

“An Ecofeminist Exploration of Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman”. Delivered at 2nd International Conference on Backwash Voices on Environmental Colonialism and Post-colonials from the Global South. Centre for Australian Studies, Bankura University, India. February 7-8, 2024.

“Adorned Bodies in Diaspora: the Intersection of Clothing, Gender and Identity in Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman”. Delivered at International Conference on Linking Latitudes: Postcolonialism and After. Swami Vivekananda University, India. February 3-5, 2024.

“‘I Pushed for Something to Stay with Me While He Did Not’: Living on Memories in A. L. Kennedy’s ‘Indelible Acts’ (2002)”. Delivered at 7th Memory, Forgetting and Creating International Interdisciplinary Conference. InMind Support. Gdansk, Poland. January 18-19, 2024.

“‘Anchored to their Element’: an Ecofeminist Exploration of Gender and Nature in Anne Le Marquand Hartigan’s ‘Land’ (1991)”. Delivered at Narratives of Land: Place, Space and Human Identity International Conference. Kazi Nazrul University, India. January 10-11, 2024.

“Enunciation, Identity and Gender in the Narrative of A. L. Kennedy and Roddy Doyle”. Delivered at IDAES (Inter-university PhD Programme in Advanced English Studies) Graduate Day 2023. Universidade da Coruña. May 24, 2023.