Latest Publications

2022 Pividori, Cristina, and Andrea Bellot. “Crossing Representational Borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado” Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3: 1-26.

2021 Pividori, Cristina. “Silence, Guilt and Insidious Trauma in Auden’s Early Poems.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies. 4.1 (2021): 74-96.

2021 Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (eds.). Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Literary Theory in the Study of Literary Works. Cambridge Scholars Publication, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. ISBN (10): 1-5275-7444-X. ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-7444-1. (Introduction; editorial matter. 2021).

2021 “Trauma Theory.” Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Theory in the Study of Literary Works. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2021: 99-109.

2021 Owen, David and Pividori, Cristina (eds.). The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory. Cambridge Scholars Publication, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. ISBN: 1-5275-6355-3; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6355-1. (Introduction; editorial matter. 2021).

2021 “Remembering Victory or Commemorating Defeat? Ivor Gurney’s Warring Memories” The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory. Cambridge Scholars Publication, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: UK: 64-81. 

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New article in Text and Performance Quarterly

2022 Pividori, Cristina, and Andrea Bellot. “Crossing Representational Borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado” Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3: 1-26. This paper analyses how borders are negotiated in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado (2016). Arias’ representation of the war experiences and traumatic memories of six veterans, three from each side of the Malvinas/Falklands war, suggests an effort to reframe …

About me

I’m an Associate Professor of English Literature (Professora Agregada de Literatura Anglesa) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


My main research interest is war representation, particularly the aesthetic and ethical challenges inherent in the rendering of the major conflicts of recent times.


This website will provide a general overview of my teaching and publication activities.