E-mail address: MariaCristina.Pividori@uab.cat
Department & University: English and German Studies, UAB
Brief summary of research interests: My primary research focus is war and conflict, with particular attention to the aesthetic and ethical challenges in their literary representation. Rather than the military dimensions, I am drawn to the complexities of depicting war and its profound, lasting impact on contemporary culture and society.
Most recent publications:
2025 “From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict through Contemporary Literature and Culture” FWW Studies Special Issue: Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century: Pedagogies in Dialogue (forthcoming).
2025 “Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered: The Trauma of the First World War, Memory, and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the ‘Post-Everything’ Era.” Tiempo Devorado: Cultures de Desmobilització. La Construcció dels Excombatents i el seu impacte al món actual, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, revistes.uab.cat/tdevorado/article/view/v10-n1-pividori.
2024 Pividori, Cristina and David Owen (eds) Beyond Post-memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2024. ISBN 9781032663661
2024 “Before the Outbreak of What Used to Be Known as the Great War:” ‘Ironic’ Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980). In Pividori, Cristina, and David Owen (eds.), Beyond Post-Memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2024, pp. 83–95.
2023 “Make America Great Again”: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017). Amsterdam University Press (Conference Proceedings). ISBN: 9789048562220 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/978904856222/AHM.2023.005
2022 Pividori, Cristina, and Andrea Bellot. “Crossing Representational Borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado” Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3: 1-26.
2021 “Silence, Guilt and Insidious Trauma in Auden’s Early Poems.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies. 4.1: 74-96.
Personal Website: https://cristinapividori.com/