Anna Marta Marini, recipient of a postdoctoral internship contract at the Instituto Franklin-UAH
On April 30th, 2024, the Fundación General de la Universidad Alcalá (FGUA) assigned the position of postdoctoral research intern in Chicano and Latino Studies to researcher Anna Marta Marini.
The postdoctoral internship is a training contract for the professional practice, and it is aimed at researchers that wish to continue their academic career after becoming PhD in their field of study. The purposes of this contract, supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Julio Cañero, researcher at the Instituto Franklin-UAH, are to improve the positioning of the journal Camino Real of the Instituto Franklin-UAH; the edition of REDEN (Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos); to contribute to the high performance of the research group AMICUSS; the collaboration in the organization of events such as the 13th International Conference on Chicanx Literature and Latino Studies, or the 2nd Frontiers & Wastelands International Conference; and to support junior researchers.
Thus, Anna Marta Marini joins the staff of postdoctoral researchers of the Instituto Franklin-UAH. She holds a PhD in North American Studies from the Instituto Franklin-UAH, has held a Predoctoral Research Contract (FPI) scholarship, has completed a degree and postgraduate degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at the Università degli Studi di Milano, (specialization in Anglo- and Spanish-American cultures, as well as Mexican studies), and a postgraduate degree in Public History at the Università Modena e Reggio Emilia. Her FPI project (carried out at the Instituto Franklin-UAH in collaboration with the CISAN-UNAM) focused on the representation of Mexico and the Mexican otherness in US cinema, defending her dissertation in March, 2024. Her main fields of study are the discursive and cultural representation of the US borderlands and Mexican American communities; the critical analysis of the discourse related to structural/cultural/direct violence and national identity constructions in the North American context; and the representation of the otherness through movies and comics. Anna Marta Marini has also edited volumes The Gothic in Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture (2024, Brill) and Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media (2024), and has written two monographies: The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing the Boundary (Edinburgh University Press, expected 2024) and Gone South: The American Experience of Mexico in US Cinema (under evaluation).
You can find more information about the postdoctoral internship in the following link.