Ana Mª Fraile Marcos
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Ana María Fraile-Marcos is Full Professor of English at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she teaches Canadian Literature and Postcolonial Studies at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Docencia / Teaching
- Globalización y diáspora en las literaturas en lengua inglesa - 102852 (Grado en Estudios Ingleses)
- TransCanadian Literatures (Master-PhD MAES)
Investigación / Research Interests
The ethics of vulnerability and resilience in U.S. and Canadian literatures; Minoriticized literatures in North America, with an emphasis on Indigenous, African American and African Canadian literature; the literatures of immigration and Diaspora; Postcoloniality; Globalization; Racialization; the politics and aesthetics of the ‘Trans-(Trans-gender, trans-racial, transnational, trans-cultural); the nation-state, ethics and aesthetics in the globalization era.
Chief editor of Canada and Beyond. A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies.
PUBLICATIONS
She is the author of the monographs Writing Resilience in the Age of Liquid Modernity: Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (forthcoming, Routledge) and Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (Universidad de Valencia 2003). She is the editor of Glocal Narratives of Resilience (Routledge 2020), Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary (Routledge 2014), Richard Wright's Native Son (Rodopi 2007) and the co-editor of Carta Canadiense de Derechos y Libertades bajo perspectivas europeas (2003). Other publications include three critical editions and over 70 articles and book chapters. Academia.edu
IP of the GIR (Grupo de Investigación reconocido) Narrativas de Resiliencia.COMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness? Toward a Cultural Narratology PID2020-113190GB-C22. 2021-2025. IP Ana María Fraile Marcos.
- Glocal Narratives of Resilience and Resurgence, Programa De Financiación De Grupos De Investigación Usal. 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2021. IP Ana María Fraile Marcos.
- Los Nuevos Medios y La Representación del Dolor. El Retrato de la Enfermedad como Estrategia de Resiliencia y Superación. Fundación D. Samuel Solorzano Barruso 2020. IP Daniel Escandell Montiel.
- Redes Transcanadienses: Excelencia y Transversalidad Sept 2019-Sept 2021. IP: Eva Darias Beautell, ULL.
- Narratives of Resilience: An Intersectional Approach to Literature and Other Contemporary Cultural Representations, Ref.: FFI2015-63895-C2-2-R. Principal researcher, 2016-2020
- Transcanadian Research Networks: Excellence and Transversality from Spain about Canada Towards Europe, FFI2015-71921-REDT, 2015-2017
- The City, Urban Cultures and Sustainable Literatures: Representations of the Anglo-Canadian Post-metropolis, Ref. FFI2010-20989, 2011-2014
- The Glocal City in Canadian Literature Principal researcher (international conference at the University of Salamanca 2011)
- Penelope's Embroidery: Literary Tradition, Cultural Identities and Theoretical Discourses in the Anglo-Canadian Fiction of the Late 20th Century Ref. HUM2006-09288, 2007-2010
- Representations of Diversity and the Environment in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Expression," International Research Linkages Programme funded by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Principal researcher, 2011-2012.
- American Literature and Immigration at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Fulbright scholar at the University of California Riverside in 2001
Other
Lorna Marsden International Visitor Fellowship, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto (September-October 2016)
Various research grants from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct research at Queen's University Kingston, the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.
Salzburg Seminar alumna.
She has lectured widely in Europe (Aarhus University, La Sapienza Rome, John Moores University of Liverpool, University of Portsmouth, Queen Mary U London, Trinity College Dublin, Université d'Orléans), Canada and the US.
Dr. Fraile is also engaged in the Guest Speakers Program of the English Department
Cargos de Gestión Actuales / Position
- Directora del Departamento de Filología Inglesa. (junio 2016-)
- Directora del Máster de escritura creativa en español. (2016-)
- General Co-editor of the open access journal Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. (2021-)
- Representante electa de los Directores de Departamento del área de Humanidades en el Consejo de Gobierno.
- Miembro del Claustro Universitario.
- Miembro del Consejo de Investigación delegado del Consejo de Gobierno de la Universidad de Salamanca.
- Miembro de la Comisión de Docencia delegada del Consejo de Gobierno de la Universidad de Salamanca.
- Miembro de la Comisión Permanente de la Facultad de Filología.
- Miembro de la Comisión de Calidad del Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados.
- Miembro de varias comisiones (Docencia, Permanente, Calidad, de TFGs) del Dpto. de Filología Inglesa.
- Evaluadora para la ANECA de Títulos de Máster online.
- Evaluadora para la UNESCO en paneles de selección de profesorado.