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ANNA M. BRÍGIDO-CORACHÁN completed her doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at New York University and was also granted a PhD in English Rhetoric and Linguistics at the University of Valencia in 2008. She is currently Associate Professor /Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology and teaches several modules on North American literature and contemporary film at the Degree of English Studies and at the Master of Advanced English Studies of the UVEG. Prof. Brígido-Corachán has participated in several research projects financed by the Ministry of Education and the Generalitat Valenciana (on Culture, Development, Social Movements, and their influence and representation in literary discourse). Since 2019 she coordinates the research group LENA: North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context (LENA - GIUV2019-457) which includes the research projects financed by the Generalitat Valenciana: "North American (trans)Ethnic Literatures in a Global Context: Representations, Transformations, and Resistances" (GV/2019/114) and "Reconfigurations of gender, race, and class in ethnic minority literatures of the Obama/Trum Eras" (GV/AICO/2021/249). She also coordinates the Teaching Innovation group NAPCED (financed by the Universitat de València), which examines the implementation of key concepts from Critical Pedagogy and Education for Development in anglophone literature modules engaging performative and digital environments. She is also Mobility Erasmus + Coordinator at the Degree of English Studies since 2023.

Her academic interests include contemporary U.S. literature, minority literatures and cultures in the Anglophone world, audiovisual languages, critical decolonial pedagogies, and educational ICTs, with a special research focus on contemporary Indigenous literature and history of the Americas, Indigenous traditional knowledge systems, ecocriticism, and the intersections between literature and film. She is a member of the international research network Small/Minor Literatures and the international associations European Association of American Studies, American Indian Workshop, Western Literature Association, The Society for Multiethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), SAAS and AEDEAN.

Relevant publications:

• “The Self-Making, Worlding Processes of Contemporary Zapotec Literature” World Literature Before World Literature. Special Issue of the Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures. Vol. 7, n. 2. December 2023.
• “Relational Bodies in Motion: A Trans-Indigenous Reading of Ofelia Zepeda and Irma Pineda’s Place-Based Poetry” Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives. Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature. Michigan State University Press, 2023.
• Editor. Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives. Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature. Michigan State University Press, 2023.
• "Kiowa Images, Stories, and Human/More-than-human Relations in Alfred and N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2022, vol. 66: 69-90.
• "Reframing Our Pedagogical Practice. Teaching Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture through Indigenous-centered Methodologies." Indigenizing the Classroom. Engaging Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture in Non-native Settings. Ed. Anna M. Brígido-Corachán. Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2021.
• "Multiliteracies, Critical Framing, and Literary Analysis in BookTube Reviews". International Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2021, vol. 28, n. 1:127-138 DOI:10.18848/2327-7955/CGP/v28i01/127-138
• "Los mundos subalternos de la literatura mundial: hacia una comparación de las literaturas indígenas en Abya Yala//las Américas". In World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality. Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise. De Gruyter (2019). Co-authored with César Domínguez.
• "Native Waterscapes in the Northern Borderlands: Restoring Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, 2018, vol. 22: 37-57.
• "Material Nature, Visual Sovereignty, and Water Rights: Unpacking the Standing Rock Movement." Studies in the Literary Imagination. Special Issue: 21st- Century American Crises: Reflections, Representations, Transformations. Part 1. 2017, vol. 50, n. 1: 69-90.
• "Digital Storytelling and its Expansion across Educational Contexts". Appraising Digital Storytelling Across Educational Contexts. Publicacions de la Universitat de València (2014). Co-authored with Carmen Gregori-Signes.
• "Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera". In Selves in Dialogue. A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing (2011). Ed. Rodopi/Brill.