Ana Belén Álvarez

Degree Program: PhD

Bio

Ana Belén Álvarez graduated from “Universidad Internacional de La Rioja” in Spain with a bachelor's in criminal justice. Afterwards, she earned her master's degree in Spanish Literature at The University of Alabama. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages with a concentration in Spanish literature. She is exploring the representation of child characters who are victims of criminal acts in contemporary peninsular Literature and Cinema between 2010 and 2020. This is the first decade in which there are official records of child victimization in Spain. Specifically, she delves into how society defined ethics are translated into the aesthetics of my selected corpus. The importance of this dissertation is fundamental to fill the void in academia regarding these characters' agency and space within the novel or film.

Selected Publications

  • “Abusos sexuales y secuestro parental: aproximación al perfil victimológico a través de Palabras envenenadas”. Cuadernos ALEPH, vol. 16, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • “La evolución del lenguaje del dolor en Palabras envenenadas”. Romance Notes (Initial acceptance in edited volume)
  • “La promoción de justicia social a través de un testimonio: el caso de Juana Doña”. Románica Silesiana (Forthcoming)
  • “¿Víctimas o verdugos? El perfil de los perpetradores en La paloma de Ravensbrück”. Cuadernos de filología – Estudios literarios, vol. 26, 2021, pp. 129-146.
  • “La masculinidad cortesana de los personajes cervantinos: Una aproximación en La fuerza de la sangre y Las dos doncellas”. El Cid, vol. 31, 2021, pp. 21-26.
  • “Estudiantes digitales: la inclusión de Twitter en el aula de ELE”. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos, 2021, vol. 1, núm. 1, pp. 7-27. Co-authored with Dr. Rubio.