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Helena López González de Orduña

Helena López has a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of A Coruña (Spain). She has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Brown (US) and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London (UK) with a project about cultural memory.Her main field of research is at the intersection between feminism and literature (specially Mexico), with a particular emphasis on issues about memory and affectivity. She has been a lecturer in Hispanic Studies, between 2003 and 2009, at the Univerisity of Bath (UK). She is currently researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she also worked as academic secretary between 2015 and 2019. She is author of two monographic books: Vanguardia y exilio: sus representaciones en el ensayo de Juan Larrea (2002) and El clamor de las ruinas. Una interpretación cultural de narrativas personales de exiliadas españolas en México (2013), awarded at the V edition of the International Essay Prize Mariano Picón Salas (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuela).