Laura de la Parra Fernández is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she teaches British and American literature. She is currently the coordinator of the MA in American Studies UCM-UAH. Her research focuses on women’s modern and contemporary British and American literature, with a particular interest on the representation of illness and its pathologization, the history of emotions, and experimental writing. She is a member of the Complutense University-based research group “Gender Studies in English-Speaking Countries”, led by Prof. Isabel Durán.
She is a member of the interdisciplinary research projects “Improvisation and emotional contagion. History and philosophy of the emotional experience”, led by Prof. Javier Moscoso (National Research Council), and “Gender and Pathography from a Transnational Experience”, led by Prof. Isabel Durán (Complutense University). Both projects are funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. She has published a number of scholarly articles in journals such as Atlantis, Prose Studies, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Studies in the Literary Imagination or ES Review on authors such as Jean Rhys, Leonora Carrington, Shirley Jackson or Emma Cline. She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London (UK), with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Education, a visiting fellow at the Department of English at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, Margaret Fuller Visiting Scholar at the Franklin Institute (UAH), and a Ruth Lee Kennedy Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Project Narrative at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA).