Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

Mariana Ripoll Fonollar is a Lecturer in English Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she also earned her academic degrees. She teaches diverse courses including English Language and Teaching I, Comprehension and Interpretation of Academic Texts in English, and Final Degree Projects across multiple undergraduate programs such as Primary Education, English Studies, and Catalan Language and Literature.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in English, University of the Balearic Islands
• MA in Teaching Training (2018), University of the Balearic Islands
• BA in English Studies (2017), University of the Balearic Islands

Dr. Ripoll Fonollar's research centers on Gender Studies and Popular Fiction Studies, specializing in women's historical writing and British Feminism's evolution. Her work critically examines how suffrage narratives are reconstructed in contemporary historical fiction, analyzing postfeminist reinterpretations of women's political activism through literary and cultural lenses. She investigates the intersections between historical accuracy, fictional representation, and modern feminist discourse in popular narratives.

Her publications reveal consistent focus on suffrage movement portrayal across journalistic and literary formats, tracing how historical events are adapted for contemporary audiences. The research trajectory demonstrates evolving analysis from historical documentation (2022) to theoretical examination of postfeminist reappropriation (2024-2025), highlighting connections between literary form, gender politics, and cultural memory.

Dr. Ripoll Fonollar actively contributes to competitive research projects funded by the Spanish Government, including 'The Politics, Aesthetics and Marketing of Literary Formulae in Popular Women's Fiction' (2017-2020) and 'Romance for Change: Diversity, Intersectionality and Affective Reparation in Contemporary Romantic Narratives' (2022-present). She supervises Final Degree Projects across multiple humanities and education programs while maintaining her research agenda.

She is an active member of the Consolidated R+D+I Group LITANGLO (Contemporary Anglophone Literatures) at the University of the Balearic Islands, collaborating on interdisciplinary research into contemporary English-language literary production and its cultural contexts.