Tania Figueiras Campos

Tania Figueiras Campos

Tania Figueiras Campos holds a BA in English Language and Literature (2015) and a MA in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (2016), both obtained at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is currently working on her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Fra-López. Provisionally entitled The American Dream ‘Upside Down’: Decoding Sociocultural Anxieties through ‘Stranger Things’ and the American Horror Science Fiction Literary and Audiovisual Tradition, her research pursues to analize how the series Stranger Things (Duffer Brothers, 2016), being one of the most contemporary representations of the Sci-Fi Horror literary and audiovisual tradition in the US, carries out a task that is essential to the genre itself: decoding North American history, culture and society into its most relevant complexes, dreams and anxieties. Her research interests include comparative literature, pop culture and mass theory, film adaptation studies, North American history, cultural studies, postmodern studies and feminist, gender studies.

Correo electrónico: tania.figueiras@rai.usc.es

Recent Contributions:

  • The Dark Side of the American Dream: Studying USA’s Cultural Complexes Through the Comparison of the Uncanny in Stranger Things and Traditional Gothic and Horror Science Fiction Tropes’. Paper presented at the Conference ‘Revisiting the Gothic in Literature and Visual Arts’, 18th February 2019. Universidad Católica de Murcia. 

  • ‘The Grapes of Wrath: from Novel to Film.’ Paper presented at Lecture Series English Studies and Popular Culture, University of Santiago de Compostela, from February, 2 to March, 2, 2016.