Nuria del Mar Torres López
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Position/ Status
Lecturer
E-mail address
Phone number
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Office
Humanities Building II, 2.14
Qualifications
Doctor in Humanities and Social (University of Almería)
B.A. in English Philology (University of Almería)
Membership of Academic Associations
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (AEDEI)
Asociación Feministas Unidas
Founding member of the Association of Feminine and Feminist Literary Studies (PANDORA)
Websites
HUM 859. English Language: Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies
Profile
Nuria Torres is a Doctor of Human and Social Science from the University of Almería, Spain, where she works as a lecturer in the English Department. Her doctoral thesis deals with gender violence and identity in contemporary Irish literature called Chick Lit, making emphasis in feminist psychoanalytic theories.
She has held a diploma in Advanced Studies since 2008 and a Master's Degree in “Women, Culture and Society” (2009). She is studying her second Ph.D. in Language and Culture at the University of Jaén about postcolonial literature and Black British women writers. Nuria Torres has also belonged to HUM 859 research group (English Language: Applied Linguistics and Literary studies) at the University of Almería since 2007 and she is part of the directive team of the Association “Pandora”, dedicated to contemporary though Ámbitos Feministas.
Her most prominent publications deal with contemporary literature written by Irish, American and British women writers and related with her experience as an English teacher and professor. Besides, she has published several reviews on literary academic studies for some prestigious journals, coedited some monographics and books about female and feminist contemporary literature. Currently, she is one of the book review editors for Ámbitos Feministas journal and at the moment she is co-editing one book about Spanish literature for Peter Lang, and two works about feminist writers nationwide for Dykinson S.L.
Research Topics
Irish Contemporary Literature
Gender Studies
Black British Literature
Gender violence in English Literature
Innovative education
Courses taught in the Master's Programme
Oral Communication: Sociological, Linguistic and Psychological Aspects
Research in the English Classroom: Theory & Practice
Latest academic publications
Torres López, Nuria and Carmen García Navarro. Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st Century Black British and American Women's Fiction. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.
Torres López, Nuria. "Bernardine Evaristo: activism, resilience and identity". Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st Century Black British and American Women's Fiction. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024. 149-166.
Torres López, Nuria. "Review of Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the 20th Century: Alternative Histories, News Narratives." Ed. Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney. Études irlandaises, 48.2 (2023): 141-145.
Candón Ríos, Fernando, Leticia De la Paz de Dios and Nuria Torres López. (2023). Literaturas, mujeres y silencio: Formas de silenciamiento femenino en la literatura reciente. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023.
Armie, Madalina, Mª Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos, Ángeles Jordán Soriano, Nuria del Mar Torres López, María del Mar Sánchez Pérez. Using PBL to Teach English Language and Culture at the Tertiary Level. New Perspectives in Teaching and Learning with ICTs in Global Higher Education Systems. IGI GLOBAL, 2023. 152-164.
Torres López, Nuria del Mar. "Notes to Self by Emilie Pine. A Feminist and Psychological Exploration Through Essays". El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura. Dykinson, S.L., 2021. 922-942.
Torres López, Nuria del Mar, Mª del Pilar Díaz López. "Género en el discurso: discriminación, maltrato a la mujer". INFAD: International Journal of Development and Educational Psychology (2017): 267-275.
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