Remedios Perni Llorente

Remedios Perni Llorente is a Permanent Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Alicante, affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She earned her Ph.D. in English Philology from the University of Murcia with a European distinction (2014) and holds dual bachelor's degrees in English Philology and Art History.

• Doctorate: University of Murcia (2014), European distinction.
• Bachelor's: English Philology and Art History, University of Murcia.

Her research focuses on politically engaged appropriations of Shakespeare, interdisciplinary collaborations between scholars and activists, and intersections of literature with visual culture and digital humanities. She leads the project "Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century" (PID2022-137873NA-I00) funded by Spain's Ministry of Science and Innovation (2023–2026), building on her earlier work with the Valencian Community-supported "Poetics of Activism" project (2019–2021).

Perni has published on topics such as Ophelia's role in the history of madness, melancholy, photography, and Shakespeare's digital adaptations. She is also a prominent translator of critical theory works, having translated texts by Tim Murray, Mieke Bal, and W.J.T. Mitchell.

• Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2016).

As a member of the Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies (THALIS) research group and the Institute for Gender Studies, she bridges literary analysis with contemporary social and cultural activism.