Department & University: Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Research interests: Cristina Franco Rosillo is a doctoral candidate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish Studies, as well as a master’s degree in Advanced English Studies: Literature and Culture Studies. Her research engages with the themes of memory and trauma, focusing on intimate testimonial narratives. Her current doctoral project examines pandemic fiction written after the coronavirus crisis, exploring how these narratives offer innovative perspectives on the concepts of “war” and “conflict”.
Selected publications:
2024. ‘The Babadook’: The Horrors of Motherhood. Beautiful Vessels: Children and Gender in Anglophone Cinema, edited by Sara Martín Alegre. pp. 136 – 141.
2024. ‘Beasts of No Nation’: The Shell-Shocked Child. Beautiful Vessels: Children and Gender in Anglophone Cinema, edited by Sara Martín Alegre. pp. 142 – 147.
2024. Embracing the Forbidden Fruits: Understanding Coming-of-age Trauma Through Affection in Jeanette Winterson’s Life Writings. MA dissertation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301014
2023. The Construction and Evolution of Otherness in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and its Film Adaptation by Emily Harris: from Marginalisation to Appropriation and Criticism. BA dissertation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Premi UAB de l’Observatori per la Igualtat als millors TFGs amb pespectiva de gènere (8th Ed.). https://ddd.uab.cat/record/280592