Helena González Fernández
Co-Director
Series Género(s), Edicions UB
Editor
A Saia. Feminist Hemeroteca
Helena GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ is a researcher of ADHUC—Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona, senior lecturer in Galician and Portuguese Studies and correspondente academic of the Academia Galega. Her research revolves around feminist literary criticism, popular culture and affect theory. She has published articles, chapters and books on Galician culture (Rosalía de Castro, Manuel Antonio, Luis Seoane, Xohana Torres, Luz Pozo, María Mariño, Ana Romaní, Chus Pato, Margarita Ledo, Teresa Moure, María Reimóndez, Emma Ríos), Brazilian and Portuguese women authors (Carol Bensimon, Hilda Hilst, Raquel Freire), the women writers-witnesses of Francoist and Nazi repression (Mercedes Núñez, among others) and the relations between Galicia and Catalan cultures (Basilio Losada, Maria-Mercè Marçal, Maria Antònia Salvà). Since 2014, she is the coordinator, together with Mariám Mariño, of A Saia, a digital archive of feminist and LGTIBQ+ magazines (co-edited by ADHUC / Consello de Cultura Galega). She was director of the Centre Dona i Literatura, ADHUC-Research center Theory, Gender and Textuality and scientific journals Abriu: Textuality Studies on Brasil, Galicia, and Portugal and Lectora: Journal of Women & Textuality.
Research areas
gender studies; popular culture; affect theory; feminist literary criticism
ADHUC—Universitat de Barcelona: investigadora / researcher (16/06/2016 -); directora / director (16/06/2016 - 03/07/2023)
Càtedra UNESCO Dones, desenvolupament i cultures: investigadora / researcher (2003 -)
Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona: investigadora / researcher (2003 - 15/06/2016); directora / director (2014 - 2016)
Lletra de dona: crítica: coordinadora (2004-2014)
Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat: codirectora / co-director (2006 - 2010)
A Saia. Hemeroteca feminista: coordinadora / editor (2014 -)
Colección Género(s): directora / director (2022 -)