Cristina Alsina Rísquez

Cristina Alsina Rísquez is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Barcelona and a researcher at ADHUC—Research Center for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality. She serves as Principal Investigator for the Spanish Ministry MINECO project "(Un)Housing: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature" (PID2020-115172GB-I00). Her affiliations include the Serra Hunter Fellow program, UNESCO Women, Development and Cultures Chair, and the Editorial Board of Lectora: Journal of Women and Textuality (2011-2022).

Her research focuses on 20th-Century US literature, particularly Vietnam War narratives, Willa Cather studies, and queer approaches to domestic spaces. Recent publications analyze intersections of trauma, gender, and materiality in postwar literature, with a strong emphasis on feminist and LGBTQ+ frameworks. She has co-edited volumes on American houses as resistant literary spaces and pandemic-inspired narratives.

Scientific awards include the Serra Hunter Fellowship, a permanent academic distinction in Catalan universities. She advises graduate students on topics like Dominican-American identity, Sylvia Plath representation, and transatlantic cultural critiques, with a focus on literary trauma and resistance. Her work extends to teaching innovation groups like Lletra de Dona, promoting gender evaluation tools in humanities education.