Ana Acuña

Ana Acuña serves as a full-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Galician and Latin Philology at the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, University of Vigo, based at the Pontevedra campus. Her academic profile centers on Galician language and literary studies within the university's formal structure.

She earned her Doctorate from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2009 with the thesis Making Galician Literature in Madrid 1950-2000, supervised by Dr. Dolores Vilavedra Fernández and Dr. Xesús Alonso Montero. This foundational work established her expertise in Galician literary production within Iberian cultural contexts.

Dr. Acuña's research spans Galician Literature, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, and Iberian Cultural Transfer, with notable emphasis on human-animal relationships in literary texts and environmental justice frameworks. Her scholarship critically examines Galician cultural production through posthumanist and ecocritical lenses, particularly focusing on marginalized voices and non-human perspectives within the literary canon.

Analysis of her 2021-2024 publications reveals consistent thematic threads: ecocritical interpretations of Galician cultural movements (e.g., Nave Civitas), analyses of violence against children and animals during wartime, and recovery of women's literary contributions during the Francoist period. Her work demonstrates methodological innovation through interdisciplinary approaches blending literary analysis with environmental humanities.

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She actively contributes to the TALG (Technologies and Applications of the Galician Language) research group, which investigates computational linguistics applications for Galician language preservation and technological integration.