Isabel Clúa Ginés

Isabel Clúa Ginés is a Professor at the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature, University of Seville, and a researcher at ADHUC (Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality) since 2016. Her work bridges literary theory, cultural studies, and gender analysis, focusing on mechanisms of gender construction, identity politics, and the intersections of spectacle, celebrity, and modernity in 19th- to 21st-century Hispanic and comparative contexts.

• Research Highlights: Specializes in gender and exclusion in contemporary popular culture, animal imagery in Gabriel Miró's works, feminist critique of Hispanic literatures, and cultural nationalism.
• Key Publications: Monograph Cuerpos de escándalo. Celebridad femenina en el fin-de-siècle (2016); co-edited volume on female homosexuality in History of Female Homosexuality in the West (2023).
• Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Engaged with UNESCO's Women, Development and Cultures Chair, and the journal Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat (co-director 2011-2020).

Academic Contributions: Investigates cultural hybridity in turn-of-the-century Spanish theater, affect theory in fantasy genres, and subversive uses of decadent aesthetics in mass-market fiction. Her book chapters and articles analyze Pilar Pedraza's gothic works, final girl tropes in Scream, and gendered interpretations of classical mythology.

Project Leadership: Principal Investigator of Gender, Image and Materiality in the Literary Culture of Modernity (1880s-1930s), examining female defectors, emotion theory, and community dynamics through gendered lenses. Also leads pedagogical innovations like the Lletra de Dona project for feminist literary criticism in virtual environments.