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Claudia Alonso Recarte is Associate Professor in English at the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia, Spain. She studied English Philology (with honors, 2006) and obtained her PhD (with honors, 2012) at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research revolves around the fields of Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies, with a particular interest in the ethical implications of nonhuman animal representations in literature and film. She is also interested in analyzing how human-nonhuman animal relationships are articulated in literary and audiovisual discourses. Thus, her research has focused on works that range from Toni Morrison’s narrative to that of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, or on cinema as diverse as Spanish film, children’s film, or documentaries. She is head and founder of CULIVIAN (GIUV2020-486) and Principal Investigator of the regional research project titled “Representations of masculinities in animal advocacy documentaries in English (2000-2021)” (Reference: CIGE/2021/100), whose members are CULIVIAN researchers. Her approach to literary and cultural studies through the lens of the animal question also allows her to explore intersecting representations related to identity politics and to fields such as Gender Studies or the Medical Humanities. She has published her work in high impact journals such as MELUS; Men and Masculinities; Studies in Theatre and Performance; Atlantis; Gender, Place and Culture; Journal for Critical Animal Studies; or Critical Studies on Terrorism, among others. Her articles have also appeared in essay collections published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Michigan State University Press, and Peter Lang.