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.
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