Latest Publications
2023 Pividori, Cristina and David Owen (editors) Beyond Post-memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Routledge (Forthcoming)
2023 Pividori, Cristina. “Before the outbreak of what used to be known as the Great War:” ‘Ironic’ Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980) in Pividori, Cristina and David Owen (editors) Beyond Post-memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Routledge (Forthcoming)
2023 Pividori, Cristina. “Make America Great Again”: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017). Amsterdam University Press (Conference Proceedings). ISBN: 9789048562220 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/978904856222/AHM.2023.005
2022 Pividori, Cristina, and Andrea Bellot. “Crossing Representational Borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado” Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3: 1-26.
Teaching
I lecture on a broad range of literature courses with the English department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). I also supervise BA degree-final projects, MA dissertations and PhD theses. I have been teaching at the UAB since 2005.
Below are some of the courses taught both at a graduate and post-graduate level:
News & Announcements
Seminar Announcement: Contemporary Literatures in English in Conversation
2nd SGR Seminar Lleida-Barcelona The 2nd SGR Seminar on Contemporary Literatures in English will be held on May 16, 2024, at the Universitat de Lleida, in the Sala Juntes room of the Rectorat building. This research seminar, coordinated by CELCA (Centre de Literatures i Cultures en Anglès, Universitat de Lleida) and G4RoC (Group for the …
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Exhibition of G4RoC Publications
Exhibition of G4RoC Publications (Sala de Revistes, Biblioteca d’Humanitats) Start: 11 March. You are all invited to visit the exhibition on conflict and war organised by the SGR Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC). This group brings together researchers from the Departments of English and German Studies and is dedicated to exploring the complexity …
Presentation at the 8th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference (Gdańsk)
2023. On December 8th, I presented my latest work at the 8th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference, that took place in Gdańsk, Poland. I had the chance to engage with fellow scholars and attendees in a dialogue about how lsabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980) recreated an Edwardian period which was informed by …
About me
I’m an Associate Professor of English Literature (Professora Agregada de Literatura Anglesa) and the coordinator of the MA in Advanced English Studies at the 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.