Patricia Bastida-Rodriguez

Patricia Bastida-Rodriguez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). She has a PhD in English Literature and Women’s Studies and her current research focuses on contemporary diasporic writing in English, particularly issues of gender, cosmopolitanism and urban interaction in twenty-first-century fiction. Her publications include articles and book chapters on Chika Unigwe, Aminatta Forna, Monica Ali or Andrea Levy. She has published essays in journals such as the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the European Journal of English Studies or the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is the author of two books in Spanish on contemporary British women’s writing as well as co-editor of the volumes De-Centring Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) and Nación, diversidad y género: Perspectivas críticas (Anthropos, 2010), among others. She is part of the research team in the Spanish government-funded project “Strangers and Cosmopolitans: Alternative Worlds in Contemporary Literature”.