Dr. Eduardo Barros Grela
eduardo.barros@udc.es

Prior to being hired by the University of A Coruña (English Studies), Eduardo Barros Grela was a professor at the University of New York (1998-2002), at the California State University (2003-2007), and a Visiting Guest Professor at Claremont Colleges, California (1999 and 2000). He was also a Research Assistant at the Humanities Institute of New York (2002-2003), and a Guest Researcher at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California,  Berkeley (2011). His PhD is from the State University of New York, (verified by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He also has a Master's Degree from the same university in New York, and another Master's degree from the University of Santiago. 

Author of more than sixty chapters and articles, he has been editor of several collections, and editor of three academic journals, and is currently finishing a manuscript on Irish film and two collections of essays: one on Irish Cultural Studies and another one on Popular Culture and Cultural Studies.

He was Head of the Section of English Studies (2017-2019), and during the period 2014-2017 he acted as Secretary in the former Department of English Studies. He is currently Secretary of Amergin, Director of the Observatory of Society and Alternative Narratives in Cultural Studies (CSSAN-UDC), a permanent seminar on Critical & Cultural Theory, Alternative Narratives and Society, and Coordinator of the Research Group "Irish Studies".

Areas of expertise:

Cultural Studies and Critical Studies
Bodies and Spaces
Contemporary Literature and Film

Interests:

Cultural studies, Critical theory, Identity politics and visual studies, Contemporary narratives, Representation

and performance, Video game narratives, Latinx and Chicanx Studies, Irish Film.

Publications: 

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Tel. (0034) 881 01 1829