Margarita Estévez-Saá 

Margarita Estévez-Saá  is Associate Professor in English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and has been accredited for Full University Professor. Her research interests include the work of James Joyce and, more recently, contemporary Irish fiction by women. She has published essays in which she studied the topic of immigration in recent Irish fiction, such as “Antidotes to Celtic Tiger Ireland in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Anne Haverty’s The Free and the Easy and Éillís Ní Dhuibne’s Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow” (2010) and “Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger Novels” (2013). She has also read contemporary novels in English from a transcultural perspective in “Trauma and Transculturalism in Contemporary Fictional Memories of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks” (2016) and “‘Us returniks’: Transcultural Atlantic Exchanges in Mary Rose Callaghan’s and Elizabeth Wassell’s Novels” (2018). She co-edited the volume The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s) (Routledge, 2019) and the special number of Estudios Irlandeses “Ecofictions, The Animal Trope and Irish Studies” (2020). More recently, she has published articles on contemporary Irish literature that have appeared in journals such as Journal of English Studies (2023) or Journal of Gender Studies (2024) and book chapters in monographs on the topic published by Dickinson, Gylphi or Routledge, among others.
Estévez-Saá has been general editor of Papers on Joyce, member of the Executive Board of AEDEI, and is currently Secretary of the Spanish James Joyce Society and General Editor of the academic journal Estudios Irlandeses.

 

@: margarita.estevez.saa@usc.es

PUBLICACIÓNS REPRESENTATIVAS:

Estudios Irlandeses, número especial “Eco-Fictions, the Animal Trope and Irish Studies” 15.2 (Noviembre 2020) (co-editado con Manuela Palacios e Noemí Pereira Ares)

: 1-146 ISBN: 1699-311X

 “Deirdre Madden”. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 386: Twenty-First-Century Irish Fiction Writers. Ed. Michael R. Molino. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. A Cengage Company. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2020. 166-177. ISBN-13: 978-1-4103-9593-1 ISSN 1096-8547

“‘O Jamesy let me up out of this’: Molly Bloom in Joseph Strick’s and Sean Walsh’s Films”. From Page to Screen/Vom Buch Zum Film. Modification and misrepresentation of femla characters in audiovisual media/ Veränderung und verfälschung wiblicher figuren in den audiovisuellen medien.: Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + CoKG, 2020. 261-284. ISSN: 2197-6392 ISBN: 978-3-8233-8367-3  

 “Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’Reilly: On Language, Words and Wordlessness” Oceánide 13 (Enero-Diciembre 2020):  85-94. ISSN:  1989-6328

 “Joyces’ Heirs: Joyce’s Imprint on Recent Global Literatures” Estudios Irlandeses 15 (March 2020-Feb. 2021): 230-232.

ISSN 1699-311X

“Introduction”. Estudios Irlandeses (Número especial “Eco-Fictions, the Animal Trope and Irish Studies”) 15.2 (Noviembre 2020) (co-editado con Manuela Palacios e Noemí Pereira Ares): 1-146 ISBN: 1699-311X: 1-5 ISBN: 1699-311X

“An Artist, first and foremost”: An Interview with Sara Baume. Estudios Irlandeses. (Número especial “Eco-Fictions, the Animal Trope and Irish Studies”) 15.2 (Noviembre 2020): 117-128.

ISBN: 1699-311X

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-Caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s).(co-editado con María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia) London & New York: Routledge, 2019.

ISBN: 978-0-367-20196-8

 “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s)” (co-escrito con María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia)  Women’s Studies 47.2 (2018): 123-146 ISSN:  0049-7878 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2018.1425509

 “Uses and Functions of the Trope of the Ghost in Women’s Short Stories: From Mary Shelley to Elizabeth Bowen” Remaking the Literary Canon in English: Women Writers, 1880-1920. María Elena Jaime de Pablos (coord.). Granada: Comares, 2018. 85-96.

ISBN: 978-84-9045-748-1

 “Do ‘querido e noxento Dublín’ ao ‘corazón da metrópole hibérnica’ de James Joyce”. GRIAL 220 (número monográfico “Ler cidades, transitar textos” (2018): 32-39

ISSN: 0017-4181

“‘Us returniks’: Transcultural Atlantic Exchnges in Mary Rose Callaghan’s and Elizabeth Wassell’s Novels”. Looking Out On the Fields: Reimagining Irish Literature and Culture. Eds. Antonio R. de Toro Santos y Eduardo Barros Grela. TIR  (Travaux d’Investigation et de Recherche).  Département de Breton de l’université de Rennes 2,

  1. 223-240. ISBN: 978-2-917681-43-5 https://www.brezhoneg.org/fr/maison-d-edition/catalogue-tir

 “Music ‘by sea’s edge’: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Liminality in Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes (co-escrito con José Manuel Estévez-Saá). Ed. Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos. London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2018. 52-67

ISBN: 9781999903763