Teresa Iribarren Donadeu

Bachelor's degree and doctoral degree in Catalan Language and Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Since 2009, she has been a member of the UOC Faculty of Arts and Humanities, having previously taught at the UAB and its School for Tourism & Hotel Management (EUTDH). She has served as director of the postgraduate Books and Reading in the Information Society programme (2011-2014) and the Master's Degree in Digital Publishing (2014-2020), as well as being postgraduate coordinator (2011-2014). Since 2019, she has been associate dean for emerging programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Since 2017 she has been principal investigator of the Catalan Literature, Publishing World and Society (LiCMES) research group (SGR 1345, UOC). She has secured funding for five projects (three joint and two personal projects), as well as an FPI grant. In total, she has taken part in 12 funded joint projects (UAB) and two unfunded projects (UAB and UOC). She was a member of the Study Group on Contemporary Catalan Literature (GELCC, UAB, 1992-2013) and the Study Group on Contemporary Catalan Translation (GETCC, UAB, 2014-2016). She also collaborated on the University of London project entitled "The Reception of British Authors in Europe" (2002-2005).

Her main area of research has been contemporary Catalan literature, initially grounded in the methodology of literary history. In order to push the discipline forward and connect it with international debates and other disciplinary and theoretical frameworks, this core research area has branched out into four interwoven research lines that she has developed chronologically in this order: (1) the relationship between Catalan and British literary spaces, focusing on translations and the critical reception of Anglo-Saxon authors in Catalonia; (2) the impact of cinema on Catalan literature; (3) the migration of books and literature to the digital sphere; and (4) the social dimension of literature: subalternity and violence, underpinned by the gender perspective and drawing on feminist theories. 

Her research on the relations between Catalan and British literature was mainly undertaken as part of the GELCC, GETCC and "The Reception of British Authors in Europe" projects. Her most notable contributions in this line are the chapters she authored on Catalan reception in two monographic series: The Reception of James Joyce in Europe (2004) and The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe (2005); her articles on the Catalan reception of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, among others; her scientific collaboration in the exhibition and catalogue Joyce and Spain (2004); and her studies on the introducer of comparatism in Catalonia, Ramon Esquerra: Lectures europees (European Readings) (2006) and Shakespeare a Catalunya (Shakespeare in Catalonia) (2009). At present, she continues to publish on the reception of James Joyce.

An interdisciplinary perspective has guided the second line of research, which links literary studies with film studies. This practice is otherwise almost unheard of in Catalan philology, constituting a hermeneutic approach that bridges the gap between literary history and cultural studies. The aim of this work, initially carried out within the GELCC, has been to demonstrate, for the first time, the influence of silent film on pre-war Catalan writers and to recover the theoretical and critical discourses on cinema. The most outstanding result of this research is the book Literatura catalana i cinema mut (Catalan Literature and Silent Film, 2012), awarded the Serra d'Or Prize for Research in the Humanities in 2013, as well as the articles published in Els Marges, Indesinenter, Anuari Verdaguer and Zeitschrift für Katalanistik.

In 2012 she began studying the migration of books and literature to the digital sphere. Outcomes of this research line include the organization of the six seminars The challenges of digital publishing (2012-2017), coordination of the blog Llibre digital (E-book, 2010-2021), two co-authored monographs (2012, 2014), and the studies "Las Humanidades digitales" (The Digital Humanities, 2017) and "Subaltern Mediators in the Digital Landscape: the Case of Video Poetry" (2017).

In 2017, upon founding LiCMES, she began a research line focused on social issues, such as subalternity, immigration and violence, especially male violence. This gender-focused research draws on feminist theoretical frameworks and places female authors at the forefront. Outstanding contributions in this area include "The Staging of Ciudad Juárez's Feminicide: Àlex Rigola and Angélica Liddell Speak for the Victims" (with A. Nicolau, 2020), "Civil war and woman's condition in the Catalan novel: Pedra de tartera, by Maria Barbal" (with M. Gatell, 2017) and Narratives of violence (with R. Canadell and J.A. Fernàndez, 2021). The latest publications in this line are "The Global Defeat: The Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West" (2021) and "The writer and the guerrillas. Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy" (2021).