Cristina Alsina Rísquez

Cristina ALSINA RÍSQUEZ is a senior lecturer in American literature at the Universitat de Barcelona (Serra Hunter Fellow), a researcher in ADHUC—Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality and Principal Investigator of the Project "(Un)Housing: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature" (PID2020-115172GB-I00) of the Spanish Ministry MINECO. Her main area of research is 20th century US literature with a special interest in Vietnam War literature and Willa Cather.  She presently co-directs the journal Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat and is board member of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) and EAAs (European Association for American Studies).

Research Areas

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary US literature; Vietnam War Literature; Willa Cather; Domestic Studies