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María Platas Alonso serves as an interim lecturer in the Department of English, French and German Philology within the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Vigo. She actively contributes to the BiFeGa Research Group in Literary and Cultural Studies, Translation and Interpretation and collaborates with the Interuniversity Research Center on Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC).
Her academic foundation includes doctoral training at the University of Vigo.
- PhD in Advanced English Studies, University of Vigo (2022), thesis: "The biopic as an empowering genre in Afro-American feminist cinema" supervised by Dr. María Belén Martín Lucas.
Dr. Platas Alonso's research centers on Afro-American feminist cinema, specifically analyzing biopics as tools for empowerment and feminist counterdiscourse. She examines community representations and affective dimensions in Afro-American lesbian documentaries, bridging film studies, gender theory, African American studies, and cultural analysis through an intersectional lens.
Her publication trajectory (2022-2023) demonstrates concentrated exploration of empowering narratives in Afro-American feminist biopics and documentaries, with recurring themes of identity politics, historical reclamation, and subversion of dominant cinematic discourses. This work extends into literary analysis of African and African American women writers' contributions to healing narratives.
No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.
Details regarding student supervision and research funding remain unreported in available information.
Through her BiFeGa research group involvement and CISPAC collaboration, Dr. Platas Alonso advances interdisciplinary investigations into cultural representation within Atlantic cinematic and literary landscapes.
