Raquel
Fernández Menéndez

Raquel Fernández Menéndez is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Her main research interests are authorship, gender and processes of canonicity in contemporary literature and culture. She is the author of Lecturas firmadas. Antologías poéticas y discursos de género en la España franquista (1945-1965) [Signature Lectures. Poetic Anthologies and Gender Discourses in Francoist Spain] (Comares 2023, open access), and her articles on this main line of research have been published in prestigious international academic journals such as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Rilce, Signa, Iberoamericana, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Journal of Iberian Women Writers and Tropelías, among others. A more recent research interest has focused on diary writing and the theory of emotions in the context of Spanish Republican exile. She began her work on exile with the support of an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Passau (Germany). She holds a PhD in Spanish Literature and Gender Studies from the University of Oviedo and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3) (France), the CCHS-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) and the Universiteit Utrecht (the Netherlands), where she also taught Spanish Literature. Before coming to the University of Salamanca, she was the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alcalá (Madrid).