Editors

Carmen Méndez • Managing Editor

Carmen Méndez García teaches American Literature at Complutense University, Madrid, where she studied English Philology, specializing in English and American Literature. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, Massachusetts, in 2001 and 2002. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled The Rhetorics of Schizophrenia in the Epigones of Modernism (2003). Current research interests include Chicana Studies, Trauma Theory, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, 20th century American and British Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism, and Psychology as applied to Literature.

Her publications and presentations have applied these interests to writers such as Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Beat Generation writers - including W. S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg- , Ken Kesey, Peter Shaffer, Theodore Roethke, Emily Dickinson and Chicana writers such as Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros and Gloria Anzaldúa.

Currently, she is Associate Professor (untenured) of English and American Literature at the English and American Literature Department at Complutense University, Madrid (UCM). She is also a member of two research groups, one of them dealing with Chicana writing analyzed from the perspectives of Trauma Theory, and the other working on Women's Studies. She has been the Associate Chair of said department since February 2007.