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Laura Miñano Mañero holds both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in English Studies and in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation, from the University of Valencia, as well as a PhD in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and their Applications from the same institution. She has recently joined the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Valencia as an assistant professor. Her research focuses on language contact, translation and interpretation in extreme contexts, postmemory and intergenerational transmission of trauma, specially focusing on second-generation Holocaust survivors, Holocaust and gender literary studies, and animal metaphorization and representation in Holocaust literature. She has been a research fellow in two postdoctoral research programs: the first at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, as part of its Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program; and the second at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, under the Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme, funded by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure of the European Union.