Elia Romera Figueroa,

Elia Romera Figueroa

Please note: Elia has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Elia Romera Figueroa (Ph.D. Duke 2023) Romance Studies (Spanish Track). 

Resident Researcher at Connective Tissue, the Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Programme in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies (Jan-October 2023).

Interests: Literary and Cultural Iberian Studies during the 20th and 21st centuries; Counter-culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; Social Movements; Performence Studies; Memory and Postmemory Studies.  Global LatinX Studies.

Her dissertation, titled Gendering Anti-Francoism: Cantautoras in Spain (1956-1986), reinterprets Spain's tradition, methodologies, and meanings of “protest music” through the study of female singer-songwriters from the second half of Franco's dictatorship to the last expressions of Second-Wave Feminism.

Fellowships: 
Duke in Madrid Fellow - Global Education(2022-2023)
Bacca Fellow (2021-2022)
PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge (2020-2021)
Kenan Institute for Ethics (2019-2020)
Social Movements Lab (Franklin Humanities Institute) (2017-2020)


Education:
- PhD. Iberian Cultural Studies. Duke University (2023)
- M.A. Romance Studies (Spanish). Duke University (2020)
- M.A. Spanish and Latin American Literature. University of Wyoming (2017)
- B.A. Modern Languages (English and French), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2014)
     - Convenios Internacionales Award. University of Massachusetts Lowell (Spring 2014)
     - Centre for Latin American Studies Award - Universidade de São Paulo (Fall 2013)

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Web Page:  https://duke.academia.edu/EliaRomeraFigueroa

Keywords:

Art and literature • Literature and folklore • Literature and society • Music

Recent Publications

  1. Romera-Figueroa, E, La copla ‘María de la O’ entre generaciones: de El Molino (1933) a Menudas estrellas (1995), Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 99 no. 3 (January, 2022), pp. 423-448 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Romera-Figueroa, E, Feminismos en la Nueva Canción Ibérica, in Una nueva historia de los feminismos ibéricos., edited by Johnson, R; Bermúdez, S (2021), pp. 453--467, Tirant lo Blanch, ISBN 8418656220
  3. Romera Figueroa, E, Voiced Postmemories: Rozalén’s “Justo” as a Case Study of Singing, Performing, and Embodying Mourning in Spain, Status Quaestions, vol. 18 (2020), pp. 203-220  [abs]