Cristina Pividori

Dr. Cristina Pividori is a researcher in the Department of English and German Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), affiliated with the SGR Research Group 'Group for the Representation of Conflict'. Her work focuses on war and conflict representation in literature, emphasizing ethical and aesthetic challenges in depicting trauma, memory, and contemporary societal impacts. She co-edited the 2024 Routledge volume Beyond Post-Memory: (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture and has published widely on World War I poetry, post-war literature, and trauma studies.

Her research spans from analyzing anti-war poetry in the 'post-everything' era to exploring ironic nostalgia in historical fiction. She engages with interdisciplinary approaches, including performance studies (e.g., Lola Arias’ Minefield) and theoretical frameworks like post-memory. Recent publications address contemporary issues such as (de)colonial masculinities in diasporic narratives and the ethics of photographic memory in Holocaust literature.

Pividori’s work bridges historical analysis with modern critical theories, contributing to debates on how literature mediates collective memory and individual trauma. Her research has been published in venues like Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Juvenilia Studies, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. She maintains an active academic presence through her personal website and UAB affiliations.