Name: Irene Gassó i Lagares
E-mail address: irenegasso@gmail.com
Department & University: Department of English and German Studies, UAB
Brief summary of research interests:
Irene Gassó i Lagares is a doctoral candidate at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and her primary area of study is gender studies and historiography. She is in the process of writing her thesis, which studies Atwood’s historical and speculative fiction from a feminist historiographical perspective, focusing on how these two genres of fiction portray the ongoing legacy of armed conflict in daily life through the perspective of her female characters. Her main aim is to explore Atwood’s representation of war as a cyclical and ever-present phenomenon from a point of view that offers an alternative to triumphalist historical narratives of war that emphasize progress.
Selected publications:
Gassó Lagares, Irene; Spengler, Nicholas, dir. “Gilead Is Within You” : Official History and Female Oppression in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2022. 60 pag. (Màster Universitari en Estudis Anglesos Avançats / Advanced English Studies) https://ddd.uab.cat/record/264615