Eulalia Piñero Gil

She has developed her career as a professor in Purdue University, Saint Louis University, Marquette University, Universidad Complutense, UNED, Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Thanks to a Purdue University scholarship she completed a Master in Comparative Literature. Likewise, she also received a scholarship from the UAM to develop her research in the Rosenbach Foundation and Library in Philadelphia where she got the opportunity to work in the Marianne Moore archive. Her doctoral thesis titled “La obra de Marianne Moore: paradigma de una poética femenina” was the first research dedicated in Spain to this North American poet. She was awarded with a scholarship by the Canadian Government twice to procure research on Canadian poetry and literary theory at the University of Toronto. She has completed research stays with scholarships in Indiana University, University of Edinburgh, Purdue University, University of Toronto, Rutgers University Harvard University. She has published more than 105 books, articles and chapters in Spanish and foreign journals about women’s literature, emotions theory, gothic literature, gender studies, comparative literature, literature theory, North American and Canadian poetry, Asian American literature and North American Literature of the 19th Century. Besides, she has been plenary speaker on several occasions, has presented her research in 180 conferences and has taken part of managing and directing duties at organizations like SAAS. Besides, she has been the coordinator of the Máster “Anglo and North American Literary and Cultural Studies Estudios Literarios y Culturales” in the Saint Louis University, Missouri and is currently the coordinator of the UAM Master in “Literary and Cultural Studies of the English Speaking Countries”. She is part of the ANECA evaluation committee, the European Commission that evaluates research projects, and that she has taken part in 70 doctoral thesis committees. 

CONFERENCES (among others):

• “La escritura es poder: el diálogo literario transatlántico entre Emilia Pardo Bazán y Kate Chopin desde una perspectiva comparada”. “School of Languages and Cultures”, Purdue University, Indiana, Estados Unidos. 10 de abril de 2023.

• “Breaking the Taboos of Motherhood in Kate Chopin’s ‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’ and The Awakening: The New American Mother”. 17th SAAS International Conference”. Universidad de Alicante, 8-10 de abril de 2025.