Dr. Paula García Ramírez, Associate Professor of English at the University of Jaén, participates in the module Shapes of Hope: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, on November 16th, 2017, room 109, with a lecture on ‘Utopia Falls Apart: Political Degradation in the New African Republics throughout Achebe's Narrative’.

Dr. Paula García Ramírez, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English Studies at the University of Jaén, she has directed two Ph.D. dissertations on African fiction, decolonisation, political corruption, and survival. Her own Ph.D. Dissertation is entitled "La Narrativa Nigeriana en Lengua Inglesa: Chinua Achebe o el Reverso de la Utopía". She has been a guest researcher at the University of Leeds and at Harvard University (Real Colegio Complutense).