Clara Bafaluy Avenoza

Clara BAFALUY AVENOZA is a predoctoral researcher at ADHUC Theory, Gender and Sexuality Research Center. Graduated in English Studies at the University of Barcelona (2020), she completed the Master in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (2022). Her research focuses on the construction of bisexuality in queer North American literature and on “bisexual reading” as a tool for literary analysis. Her doctoral thesis, directed by Dr. Cristina Alsina Rísquez, revolves around New Wave science fiction and the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, and explores the relationship between the utopian imaginary, the construction of (bi)sexuality and the encounter with alterity.