Department & University: Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de Catalunya, (UIC)
My research focuses on contemporary war literature and postmemorial writing, approaching these narratives through the lens of affect theory, spatial phenomenology, and ecological perspectives. My research examines how contemporary Anglophone writers depict conflict, migration, borders, and traumatic events, considering how literary aesthetics shape our understanding of these pressing global issues. By exploring the interplay between memory, space, and affect, I investigate how literature engages with histories of violence and displacement in ways that remain both contextually grounded and universally resonant.
My recent work has focused on the ethics of relationality in post-1989 European war literature, analysing how narratives of migration, conflict and loss intersect with broader socio-political concerns. My latest research explores the role of architecture, space, and ecological entanglements in war narratives and postmemorial literature.
Beyond literary studies, my work contributes to interdisciplinary conversations on trauma, memory, and displacement, engaging with contemporary debates in affect studies, eco-philosophy, posthumanism, and environmental humanities. Through this research, I seek to illuminate the ways literature not only reflects the past but also intervenes in present discourses on war, borders, and belonging.
Most recent publications:
2024: “A Post-Memorial Aesthetics of Contemporary Haunting: The Architectural Uncanny in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room.” Beyond Post-Memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture, edited by Cristina Pividori and Owen David, 1st ed., Routledge, pp. 227–38.
2024: “Legacies of War: A Pedagogical Approach to Sustainable Peace Education using Literature as a Tool of Enquiry.” Ámbitos y Perspectivas Actuales en Lingüística y Literatura, edited by Eva Pelayo Sañudo & Marta Gancedo Ruiz, Editorial Comares, pp. 107-124.
2023: “All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement of Returning Combatants of World War II.” Books Now: Gdansk Journal of Humanities, 1 (16), pp. 59-71.
2023: “The World is still Beautiful”: An Eco-philosophical Reading of Eugene McCabe’s Victims Trilogy.” Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 18, pp. 172-1.
2023: “Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Shades of Albert Camus’ Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas’ Burma Boy.” Atlantis Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, Vol. 45. No. 2 (December): 225-243
2022: “Laughing and Crying at the Same Time: Reading Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy through a Bergsonian Theory of the Comic.” University of Bucharest Review, Vol. XII, no. 2, Disaster Discourse: Representations of Catastrophe (II).