Fitxa persona

Dr Maria Gaviña Costero is a lecturer at the English Department of Universitat de València, where she earned her PhD with a thesis about the dramatic oeuvre of Brian Friel. Her main research interests include contemporary Irish literature from a gender perspective, the relation between literature and conflict, and theatre reception. She has published several scholarly articles both in Spanish and in English on contemporary Northern Irish literature and its reception in Spain. She has contributed a chapter in the books Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama; Ireland and Dysfunction: Critical Explorations in Literature and Film; Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times; Re-Thinking Literary Identities: Great Britain, Europe and Beyond, Non-Violent Resistance: Irreverence in Irish Culture, Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature: Wounds of the Body and the Soul and (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory. She has published the book Érase una vez Ballybeg, on the reception of Brian Friel's drama in Spain, and the book El Teatro de Brian Friel: bailando entre la ficción y la memoria. She has co-edited the volumes "Lost, Unhappy and at Home": The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture. Volume I: Literature y "Lost, Unhappy and at Home": The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture. Volume II: Socio-Cultural Aspects.
She is a member of the research group Literature, Arts and Performance. She participates in the research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, PID2023-147481NB-I00: "Beyond Postmemory: English Literary Perspectives on War and Memory in the (Post)Postmodern Era (POSTLIT)", and in the project funded by the autonomous government, CIAICO/2024/076: "Mujeres (Re-)presentando geografías múltiples en la cultura anglófona (1800-2000s)/ Women Staging and Re-Staging Multiple Geographies in Anglophone Cultures (1800-2000s)".