Dolors Ortega Arévalo

Dolors Ortega Arévalo has been a lecturer of Literature in English at the University of Barcelona since the year 2010, teaching courses devoted to Contemporary Fiction in English, Modernist and Postmodernist Literature in English, Medieval Literature, North American Contemporary Fiction, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Literatures.

She received her PhD degree from the University of Barcelona and she was awarded the European Doctorate Mention for her thesis "Deterritorialising  Patriarchal Binary Oppositions: Deleuze, Woolf, Masculinities and Film Adaptation", after a year as a Visitor Doctorate Researcher under the supervision of Dr. Humm at the University of East London. Her research has focused mainly on Modernist writers, Gender Studies, Film Adaptations, Postcolonial Literature and the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. She has most recently been working on transnationalisms and hybridity and has published  the prologue and only authorized annotated Spanish translation of F.S. Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon (2014). She is currently working on an annotated translation of Virginia Woolfs’s A Room of One’s Own. She is a member of the current consolidated research group Ratnakara with its current project “The Aesthetics of Remembering:  Empathy, Identification, Mourning,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2015-63739-P).