
Personlig presentation av Carmen Zamorano-Llena
Carmen Zamorano Llena is Professor of English (literature) and was previously lecturer in English at the University of Lleida, Spain (1999-2008). She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Lleida, Spain, an MA in Translation from the University of Westminster, UK, and her PhD in English from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She has published on contemporary Irish and British poetry and fiction, particularly focusing on aspects relating to post- and transnational identity, migration and ageing.
She is author of the monograph Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor of several collections of essays, including The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process (Publicacions de Lleida, 2002), Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2011), Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (Rodopi, 2013), and Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2016). She is also co-editor of the Nordic Irish Studies journal and co-editor of Cultural Identity Studies series with Peter Lang.
She has been the recipient of external funding for a number of research projects, both as main applicant and as a participant researcher, for projects on postnational identities in contemporary Irish poetry (AGAUR, Spain), migration and literature (Swedish Research Council), as well as literary and cultural gerontology (Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness, FP7 EU).
Her current research projects include analyses of ageing, quality of life and creativity (Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness, led by Prof. Fidel Molina and Dr. Núria Casado, University of Lleida, Spain), literatures of migration in contemporary Britain and Ireland within the context of the workshop series on Temporalities and Subjectivies of Crossing (NOS-HS workshop series, main applicant: Prof. Johan Schimanski, University of Oslo, Norway), as well as literatures of migration and transcultural approaches to Muslim writing in Europe in collaboration with colleagues from the English, French and Spanish departments at Dalarna University.
Since 1998 she has taught courses in literature in English at undergraduate and graduate levels. Regarding thesis supervision, Dr. Zamorano Llena has supervised BA and MA theses in literature in English on a wide range of themes and theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial analyses, as well as feminist, postmodern, transcultural and ecocritical readings of classic and contemporary writers. She is currently the main supervisor of a PhD thesis on the work of Canadian poet Lorna Crozier.
- Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Ireland and Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Book. .
- Looking Very Old Age in the Eye : A Nuanced Approach to the Fourth Age in Contemporary Irish Fiction. A Case Study, The Gerontologist, 2019, Vol. 59, No. 5, 956-963. Article : refereed. .
- “Carving up the visible and the invisible” : Ethical and Aesthetic Engagement with De-racialising the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak’s Honour, 2019. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The Silver Tsunami of Very Old Age : A Nuanced Approach to the Fourth Age in Jennifer Johnston's Later Fiction, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- 'Memories of lost things' : Variations of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea and Gravel Heart", 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- 'Memories of lost things' : Variations of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Against the Fear of Complexity : (Re)envisioning the Alterity of the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak's Honour, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Looking Very Old Age in the Eye : A Nuanced Approach to the Fourth Age in Jennifer Johnston's Later Fiction, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- ‘Season of early autumn’ : From Novels of Decline to the Midlife Progress Narrative in Jennifer Johnston’s Fiction, 2017. Conference paper : refereed. .
- ‘Extreme old age, you know. Not to be recommended’ : Challenging the Discourse of Successful Ageing in Jennifer Johnston’s Later Fiction, 2017. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland : Studies in Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. .
- Introduction : Versions of Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland, Part of: Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. Chapter of book. .
- From Exilic to Mobile Identities : Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanization of Irish Reality, Irish university review, 2016, Vol. 46, No. 2, 359-376. Article : refereed. .
- The Location of the New Ireland : Redefinitions of Memory and Belonging in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, Part of: Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. Chapter of book. .
- A cosmopolitan conceptualisation of place and new topographies of identity in Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men, Transnational Literature, 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1-11. Article : refereed. .
- A Brave Old Age : Changes in the Irish Family Trope in Jennifer Johnston’s Later Fiction, Part of: Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. Chapter of book. .
- Revolutionising the Irish Family : Global Ageing and the (Dys)functional Family in Jennifer Johnston's Foolish Mortals, 2016. Conference paper : refereed. .
- ‘Our identity is our own instability’ : Intercultural Exchanges and the Redefinition of Identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in the Fire, Part of: Literary visions of multicultural Ireland, Manchester University Press, 2014. Chapter of book. .
- From Exilic to Mobile Identities : Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality, 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Global Ageing and Changes in the Irish Family Structure in Jennifer Johnston’s Foolish Mortals and Truth or Fiction, 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Variations in Migration and Collective Identities : Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality, 2014. Conference paper. .
- Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013. .
- Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature, Part of: Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013. Chapter of book. .
- Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship : Redefinitions of National Belonging in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, Part of: Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013. Chapter of book. .
- ‘Burning from the inside out’ : Cosmopolitanisation and the Deterritorialisation of Identity in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- A Cosmopolitan Re-Vision of the Metaphor of ‘Home’ as Nation in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore, The Stockholm 2013 Metaphor Festival : 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- A cosmopolitan conceptualisation of place and new topographies of identity in Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men, 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Urban and Rural Landscapes in Modern Ireland : Language, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2012. .
- Introduction: The Urban and the Rural in the Irish Collective Imaginary, Part of: Reimagining Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2012. Chapter of book. .
- ‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural Exchanges and the Redefinition of Identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in the Fire, 4th Global Conference on Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity : 2011. Conference paper. .
- Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship : Redefinitions of National Belonging in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, 6th Global Conference Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship : 2011. Conference paper. .
- The Location of the New Ireland : Redefinitions of Memory and Belonging in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, AEDEI conference (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) : 2011. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger : Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland, Part of: Beyond Ireland: Encounters across Cultures, Peter Lang, 2011. Chapter of book. .
- Redefinitions of Irish Identity : a postnationalist approach, Peter Lang, 2010. Book. .
- Introduction: Redefinitions of Irish Identity, Part of: Cultural identity studies, Peter Lang, 2010. Chapter of book. .
- Glocal Identities in a Postnationalist Ireland as Reflected through Contemporary Poetry, Part of: Redefinitions of Irish Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Postnationalist Approach, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2010. Chapter of book. .
- “‘The figures of the far past come back at the end’: Unmasking the Desired Self through Reminiscence in Late Adulthood in John Banville’s The Sea”, Part of: Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture, Peter Lang, 2010. Chapter of book. .
- Writing beyond the Nation : Philosophies of Migration and National Identity in Caryl Phillips’s Latest Work, Across Borders Conference: Migration and Narration : 2010. Conference paper. .
- The Location of the New Ireland: Redefinitions of Memory and Belonging in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture and Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN): The Island and the Arts : 2010. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The Location of the New Ireland: Redefinitions of Memory and Belonging in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture and Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire, 7th NISN conference (Nordic Irish Studies Network) : 2010. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Imagining the Nation Differently : Redefinitions of Narratives of Identity in Contemporary Irish Writing, 5th Global Conference "Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship: A Diversity and Recognition Project" : 2009. Conference paper : refereed. .
- “(Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry”, Part of: Bodies and Voices: The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse, Rodopi, 2008. Chapter of book. .
- “Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland”, Fifth NISN Conference (Nordic Irish Studies Network) : 2008. Conference paper. .
- “‘It’s time for some new coinage’: Derek Mahon’s Redefinition of Identity and the Memory of Place in a Postnationalist Context”, Part of: Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. Chapter of book. .
- “Postnationalist Identity and Sites of Memory in the Latest Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Paul Durcan”, Études Irlandaises, 2007, Vol. 32, No. 2, 155-72. Article : refereed. .
- Contemporary redefinitions of Irishness : revisiting the past from a postnationalist perspective in Dermot Bolger’s "The family on Paradise Pier", Ariel, 2007, Vol. 38, No. 2-3, 115-38. Article : refereed. .
- “Changing Places, Changing Identities: Contemporary Redefinitions of National Identity in a Globalising Ireland as Reflected through Poetry”, “Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a Globalizing World”. European Science foundation (ESF) – Linköping Universitet (LiU) conference : 2007. Conference paper. .
- “‘In a place which is not a place’: The Poetics and Politics of Place in a Globalised Ireland as Reflected in Contemporary Irish Poetry”, IASIL International Conference (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature) : 2007. Conference paper. .
- "Glocal Identities in a Postnationalist Ireland as Reflected through Contemporary Poetry”, Fifth EFACIS Conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies) : 2007. Conference paper. .
- “The Former People in Contemporary Redefinitions of Irish Identity: Revisiting the Past from a Postnationalist Perspective in Dermot Bolger’s The Family on Paradise Pier”, I International Conference on Nation and Identity in XIX and XX Centuries Literature in English : 2006. Conference paper. .
- “‘No such thing, Rosie, as a uniform Ireland’: Postnationalist Identity and Sites of Memory in the Latest Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Paul Durcan”, Fifth NISN Conference (Nordic Irish Studies Conference) : 2006. Conference paper. .
- “‘Words we can grow old and die in’: Female Reconstructions of the Irish Literary Idiom in Eavan Boland’s Later Poetry”, Part of: Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience, Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2005. Chapter of book. .
- “‘It’s time for some new coinage’: Derek Mahon’s Redefinition of Identity in a Postnational(ist) Irish Context”, Fifth EFACIS Conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies) : 2005. Conference paper. .
- From Loneliness to Solitude in a Post-feminist Age: Redefining Love in the Second Half of Life in Clare Boylan’s Beloved Stranger, Part of: The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English, Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. Chapter of book. .
- “‘A woman’s right to silence’: Ancestry, Culture and Identity in the Work of Contemporary Welsh and Irish Women Poets”, Part of: Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Actas de las IV Jornadas de Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Córdoba, 2004. Chapter of book. .
- Overcoming the Double Exile : (Re)construction of 'Inner-scapes' in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry, NIS, 2004, Vol. 3, 157-167. Article : refereed. .
- “The Salvage from Postmodernism: Nomadic Subjectivity in Contemporary Women’s Poetry in the British Isles”, International Conference "Poetics of the Subject", University of Provence, Aix-Marseille I : 2003. Conference paper. .
- “‘Words we can grow old and die in’: Female Reconstructions of the Irish Literary Idiom in Eavan Boland’s Later Poetry”, International Conference “The Art of Ageing: An Interdisciplinary, International Conference on the Phases of Life” : 2003. Conference paper. .
- “The Human Dimension of History: Ageing and Death in (Re)presentations of the Irish Literary Imagination in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry”, Fourth EFACIS conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies : 2003. Conference paper. .
- The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process, Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2002. Book. .
- “Making for Ithaca in Late Life: Representations of Successful Ageing in Anita Brookner’s A Start in Life and Brief Lives”, Part of: The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process., Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida , 2002. Chapter of book. .
- “(Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry”, EACLALS Triennial International Conference (European Association of Commonwealth Language and Literary Studies) : 2002. Conference paper. .
- “Recovering the Lost Land: A Postmodern Feminist Construct of Identity in the Poetry of Eavan Boland”, Part of: Re-Interpretations of English: Essays on Literature, Culture and Film, Universidade da Coruña, 2001. Chapter of book. .
- “The Location of Identity in the Interstitial Spaces: The Poetry of Fleur Adcock in a Multicultural Britain”, Journal of New Zealand Literature, 2001, No. 18/19, 161-72. Article : refereed. .
- “Recovering the Lost Land: A Postmodern Feminist Construct of Identity in the Poetry of Eavan Boland”, Third International Conference of English Philology, Universidade da Coruña : 2001. Conference paper. .
- “‘A woman’s right to silence’: Ancestry, Culture and Identity in the Work of Contemporary Welsh and Irish Women Poets”, Fourth International Conference of English Philology, University of Córdoba : 2001. Conference paper. .
- “Overcoming the Double Exile in Ireland: (Re)construction of ‘Inner-Scapes’ in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry”, Third International EFACIS Conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies) : 2001. Conference paper. .
- “The Location of Identity in the Interstitial Spaces: The Poetry of Fleur Adcock in a Multicultural Britain”, Annual ASNEL Conference (Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English) : 2000. Conference paper. .
- “Encounter with Venero Armanno”, Westerly, 1999, Vol. 44, No. 2, 25-40. Article : refereed. .
- “Mapping the Self in Fleur Adcock’s Poetry: From a Postmodernist Sensibility to Postmodern Feminism”, Philologia Hispalensis, 1999, Vol. 13, No. 2, 247-55. Article : refereed. .
- “Mapping the Self in Fleur Adcock’s Poetry: From a Postmodernist Sensibility to Postmodern Feminism”, Second Seminar on Postmodernism : 1999. Conference paper. .
- “Tradition and Contemporary British Poetry: The Role of Tradition in Perpetuating Gender Differences in British Poetry”, Part of: Interpretations of English: Essays on Literature, Culture and Film, Universidade da Coruña, 1998. Chapter of book. .
- “Encounter with Venero Armanno”, Part of: Multi-Cultural Voices, Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 1998. Chapter of book. .
- “Tradition and Contemporary British Poetry: The Role of Tradition in Perpetuating Gender Differences in British Poetry”, Second International Conference of English Philology, Universidade da Corduña : 1998. Conference paper. .
English: Advanced Literary Theory (EN3064)
English: Bachelor Degree Thesis in Literature (EN2028)
English: Literature and Theory (AEN25S)
English: One-Year Master Degree Thesis in Literature (EN3063)
Literatures of Migration: Past and Present (AJP264)
Migration, Climate and Anxiety in Literature in English (AEN252)
The Contemporary Coming-of-Age Novel in English: Female, Ethnic and Ageing Perspectives (EN2038)