Elena Martínez-Acacio

Elena Martínez-Acacio holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies, specializing in Peruvian literature, from the University of Alicante. She is the author of the monograph Abraham Valdelomar, narrador del Perú moderno (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2020). Currently, she is completing her second Ph.D. in Iberian Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her current research focuses on the intersections between literature, film, and politics in the Iberian Peninsula in the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawing from critical theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory, her dissertation, Difference within Identity: Crises of the Law in Francoist Spain, elaborates a novel understanding of the concept of difference that allows for a critique of the Francoist ideology.