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Esther Igual Lafuente holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation and a Master’s degree in Research in Languages and Literatures from the University of Valencia, as well as a Master’s degree in Teacher Education from the Open University of Catalonia. She is currently a PhD researcher in the Department of French and Italian Philology at the University of Valencia, supported by an Atracció de Talent doctoral fellowship. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Ignacio Ramos Gay and Claudia Alonso Recarte, examines the representation of non-human animals in underground cinema in France and Great Britain. Her research interests include experimental cinema, Animal Studies, posthumanism and animal ethics. She has presented her research at national and international conferences and seminars and has undertaken research stays in Angers, Nantes, Lausanne and Edge Hill. She is a member of the CULIVIAN, PIEE and Animal Ethics and Francophone European Theatre (2007–2025) research groups.