Constanza del Río Álvaro is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of Zaragoza University, Spain. She is a member of a competitive research team currently working on contemporary British and American fiction. Her research centres on narrative theory, narrative genres and contemporary Irish fiction. She has published numerous articles on these subjects and on writers such as Flann O’Brien, Seamus Deane, Eoin McNamee, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O´Riordan and William Trevor. She is currently working on the representation of history in the contemporary Irish novel, with a special focus on its traumatic dimension. She is co-editor with Luis Miguel García Mainar of the volume Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film, published in 2004 by Universitätsverlag, Winter, Heidelberg.

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